Posted by rvhoss:
Easy...
LB...but if it makes you feel better JRose=GONE, Francis=one of TWO (and a half jj1 that's for fish) veterans left that can contribute
Trading a 20 year old SF for a aging veteran who has be known to ruin team chemistry does not count as a team being in rebuilding mode. It counts as GM is making trades to try and improve the team mode. Rebuilding constitutes acquiring draft picks and shedding large contracts, not adding more large contracts.
we had 5 first round picks the last 2 drafts...but maybe i'm nitpicking.:)
I'm sorry but trading lottery picks does not entail rebuilding. Slice it anyway you want, when you trade 2 1st round picks in successive years, you are saying to everyone(including your fans) that you feel your team is ready to contend fully, in not only the east, but for the NBA championship. Your right Isiah acquired another pick last year, but that was only after he realized that he royally screwed up and that he had to add more talent to the roster. So instead of it being a player like Adam Morrison, Tyrus Thomas, Rudy Gay we settled for a guy like Eddy Curry. A player with serious weight and desire issues. A player Isiah Thomas just called out in the press and call him a wimp.
He's a shot blocker and who else would you have wanted to sign...and are we going to beat the Jerome James drum as long as we can? I mean, he's a shot blocker...$5 mill is peanuts compared to the rest of the league's payrolls. He has the 123rd highest salary in the league, no idea what he ranks among back up centers with playoff experience...but ok, one 30+ 7 footer signing does not a rebuilding make...you win
You dont have to sign anyone!!! Instead you stop adding contracts to the overblown payroll and you WAIT. This idea that you must use the midlevel exception every year is ridiculous. When your signing a 30+ year old center to a full midlevel exception, you are not rebuilding. You are adding to what you feel is already a quality team ready to make a move to contend.
how much comes off the cap this year? It's been less than 3 years...impatience is your biggest flaw.
if we are under the cap within 5 years of isiah taking over an impossible job (remember the headlines, you must, they were less than 3 year's ago) and turned crappy contracts into a young roster and 4 crappy contracts.
I don't care if it was an impossible job. Isiah's had his turn and he's done a terrible job, time for someone else to try.
Who says we are going to be under the cap ever? Isiah has shown that he will sign a player every year to the mid-level exception, couple that with the fact that we are going to have players that will need to be resigned from their rookie contracts along with trades that Isiah could make and also add that Isiah has shown that he will trade lottery picks for players like Eddy Curry and then sign them to mammoth contracts coming off heart problems.
By 2009, there will be no crappy contracts.
Like I said, impatience is your biggest flaw.
I didn't know you could tell the future. What else is going to happen in 2009? What players is Isiah going to trade for and sign before then? Tell me all this Ms. Cleo.
Impatience is not biggest flaw, I've been plenty patient with Isiah Thomas. Notice you are part of a very small group that is behind Isiah Thomas while the rest of the world calling for his head because they've seen enough of him.
Fanaticism is your biggest flaw.
