Nalod wrote:Had that Marbury fella here, Larry would have ran Rondo out of here, and Isiah would have traded him long ago in some starphuch move.

Rondo never would have had a playoff game like he did yesterday. Never would have made playoffs.

Playing with good players makes you better.

As Briggs said, "ouch" but thats about it.

I "get" what Layden was trying to do but it didn't work. History is what it is. Can't change it.

Moving Reed over to center from the PF and trading Bellamy was met with its critics. IT worked out. Dice didn't.

We moving on and the train is leaving the station.

Im rooting for the Celts. Do we want lebron dejected or motivated to come back?

Larry was gone by the Rondo draft.

But I do think Rondo's development was helped a lot by having the Big Three around him.

Marv wrote:I just got finished last week shooting down someone’s contention that layden would have been a success IF ONLY he hadn’t had “bad luck” on the mcdyess trade – totally ignoring the eisleys, shandersons, erik stricklands, etc. - in addition to the mcdyess-camby-nene deal through which layden hung himself.

Now I’m hearing that that zeke would have been a success if ONLY he hadn’t committed the particular blunders of the eddy curry, balkman and channing frye deals – which were cluster-fks enough themselves –but leaving out the dozen other stupid-ass personnel, management and fiscal moves he made that contributed to his writing his own ticket the hell out of here- i call bs.

You mean to tell me you wouldnt go to war with a Rondo/Bynum/Chandler/Lee nucleus? The hell is wrong with you? You need to take your Dockers wearin', penny loafer sporting ass over to the nearest bar on your lunch break and order one of your pink cosmos or AppleTini's so you can chill the fukk out.

sebstar wrote:

Marv wrote:I just got finished last week shooting down someone’s contention that layden would have been a success IF ONLY he hadn’t had “bad luck” on the mcdyess trade – totally ignoring the eisleys, shandersons, erik stricklands, etc. - in addition to the mcdyess-camby-nene deal through which layden hung himself.

Now I’m hearing that that zeke would have been a success if ONLY he hadn’t committed the particular blunders of the eddy curry, balkman and channing frye deals – which were cluster-fks enough themselves –but leaving out the dozen other stupid-ass personnel, management and fiscal moves he made that contributed to his writing his own ticket the hell out of here- i call bs.

You mean to tell me you wouldnt go to war with a Rondo/Bynum/Chandler/Lee nucleus? The hell is wrong with you? You need to take your Dockers wearin', penny loafer sporting ass over to the nearest bar on your lunch break and order one of your pink cosmos or AppleTini's so you can chill the fukk out.

first time you've made sense in this thread

Paladin55 wrote:

AnubisADL wrote:Do people realize how bad Rondo would look on this team?

- No Jumper
- Bad free throw shooter
- suspect PG skills up until 2 yrs ago

Seriously the guy would have been traded a LONG time ago just like Channing Frye was.

Took some time to develop, and yes, his shooting can be frustrating to watch, but to me he is one of those intangible players, who has developed into a winner.

In his case, the "whole is greater than the sup of its parts."

I did not really consider him the year he was drafted, but you have to say that he has done a bit better than some expected from him.

No??

He would have been Marbury's backup until he was ready -- like Mardy Collins was supposed to be.

Allanfan20 wrote:Sebstar, as far as I remember, the Steve Franchise deal was an absolute killer. However, that deal was one of many, so it's no worse and better than any of the other ones. Marbury, Randolph, Curry, Francis, drafting Frye, James, drafting Balkman over Rondo when you could have gotton him with a 2nd round pick you could easily buy.

Those are just SOME of his bad basketball players decisions and ONLY those. Then there's all of the other crap.

He was an outrageous executive with or without those 2 deals you mentioned sebstar.

That Francis deal was Larry Brown. He hated Ariza and loved Francis. Randolph was obviously a good trade, he was just a bad fit at the time.

Drafting Bynum and Rondo would have given us a wealth of talent at the most important positions. Center and PG.

ROTFLOL!

playa2 wrote:

crzymdups wrote:

Nalod wrote:Had that Marbury fella here, Larry would have ran Rondo out of here, and Isiah would have traded him long ago in some starphuch move.

Rondo never would have had a playoff game like he did yesterday. Never would have made playoffs.

Playing with good players makes you better.

As Briggs said, "ouch" but thats about it.

I "get" what Layden was trying to do but it didn't work. History is what it is. Can't change it.

Moving Reed over to center from the PF and trading Bellamy was met with its critics. IT worked out. Dice didn't.

We moving on and the train is leaving the station.

Im rooting for the Celts. Do we want lebron dejected or motivated to come back?

Larry was gone by the Rondo draft.

But I do think Rondo's development was helped a lot by having the Big Three around him.

Best comment of truth today ^ The big three has a way of making you stop playing foolish if you want to be on the court with them.

Maybe they'll beat some discipline into Nate