Bonn1997 wrote:JamesKPolk wrote:Bonn1997 wrote:JamesKPolk wrote:It sucks seeing teams get better and us locked into long term contracts with no flexibility to do anything and a franchise that has 1 playoff win in 10 years. I think this is more frustrating than the Isiah years because at that point you expected to suck azz. Now we're supposed to be great but we're just OK and teams keep improving while we sit around handcuffed because of our contracts. This goes beyond Nash. It's just a damn shame. Think for a second if Lin, who still has a lot to prove, didn't break out for us. What would we be doing right now? Begging Kidd or Felton to be the starting point guard? This team has been built with such short-sightedness it's astonishing. It's too bad this team is my life. I can't quit them. Never will. It just sucks knowing you're not good enough to win a championship because you made the wrong moves at the wrong time.
And everyone praised Donnie Walsh for being a good GM.
Everything was going well before the Carmelo trade. That started a domino effect of moves that would cripple the franchise. So no, not Donnie's fault.
I don't think they were going that wonderfully. I think Donnie's biggest decision - the Amare signing - was a clear long-term disaster. You and I can probably at least agree that Donnie's biggest mistake was choosing to work for Dolan, though.
Amare was dominating before Carmelo showed up so you can't say it was a definitive disaster. for a while there the signing was genius. And so was Felton's. That's how you build a team, by focusing on the PG and C/PF positions first. We had the right idea but maybe not the right players.
Dolan, though, is a cancer. Damn shame we're stuck with him until he's off this planet.
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