Posted by OldFan:
Posted by playa2:
Briggs I agree about the one thing Frank played the point position that was on the same speed as his teamates, He is the guy who could keep chemistry in tack. Mcdyess if he would have played last night wouldn't have allowed boozer to destory us in the paint last night, dice is stronger than that!
Please stop with Frank Williams. Last year I thought it was amazing that people were pumping this guy up based on almost no data. But to continue it this year is beyond ridiculus. The guys career stats are 3 pts, 2 assits and 35% shooting. You can't take a guys best 5 games out of 80+ games he's played and extrapulate that he is a great, good, average or less then average but occassionally useful scrub from that.
As far as the rest of the trades:
Lampe may at some point contribute something but so far he's done nothing.
Is Vujunic contributing somewhere?
Ward I always defended but as I recall 90% of the board bashed the guy and his HUGE contribution this year is 5.4 pts 3.1 assists and 31% shooting. I haven't seem him this year but I'm assuming at 34 with bad knees his defense ain't improving.
Antonio has played well but hardly been dominant and who knows how long he'll last.
It has gotten harder to build thru the draft. You have to draft with limited information. There are always quality players but most of the time teams are not going to get the best player available as unlike us monday morning cornerbacks they don't have the advantage of hindsite. And most of the players coming out have very short resumes. So to assume both that we would have a high draft pick and make the best use of it is assuming a lot.
YOu have to consider we gave up $30 million in salary and took back $130 in return.
I hate freaking Penny also. He will make 17mil next year! Ok, it was a necessary evil, but can't not throw it in.
Frank is a creature we created from desperation and low (fan) self esteem. At the same emotion, we have elevated Marbury to an Ikon. Actually, he has done it for us.
Fans have little objectivity when we want our players to do well. When we read articles that seem to bash (our emotions) we take it personal and think they are idiots.
Coming off Layden, we worshipped Isiah and love the buzz he has created, and feel will continue to feed up with all kinds of trades.
Isiah might have hit a spending wall. The buzz was self suffiecient as it offsets some of the spending for TT and Penny. But in the long run, Isiah must deliver. I doubt we keep ramping up our salary going forward.
Isiah's recent comments kinda supports this. We are who we are and in time we can make it better with draft picks, and some creative trades. We cannot assume we replace the salary that comes off the books, or use the MLE in full.
If Trevor and Azira are for real, they will too need to be paid.
It is important that you draft kids that can be evaluated in the first 3 years properly. IT hurts to over pay for a bust, and let fulfilling potential be filled for a different team!
1/10/2005 9:11 AM
