allow me to borrow oohah's style:
you guys are acting like there was never a plan. When he got here the plan was to create the best backcourt in the NBA by teaming up Steph and H20. H20 started breaking down and Jamal Crawford was brought in to be his backup.
everyone has a plan. even layden. his plan was to bring in veteran guys that were safe. he had h20 and spree with ward at the point. we had a center that was constantly injured, and we were still a playoff caliber team. we needed a legitimate big man in the east and he traded for dice. that's a plan, right? but it blew up in his face. everyone has a plan. and if the first plan was to pair steph + h20, then why not go after another jumpshooter for the backcourt? why was that planned abandoned?
KT was traded for Q and a first round pick which was Nate Robinson. I thought is was a freaking coup initialy, but no one, and I mean not one person on this earth, could have predicted that q would suck this badly.
the premise of the kt trade was b/c of his relationship with steph. isiah gave kurt the 4 year extension. he always praised kurt. but we traded him for a guy with an uninsured contract b/c of his back. again, a 62 win team, trades away a starting player, along with a decent draft pick in a deep draft, WITH money as well for kurt (the 30 year old slow as molasses pf). the question i have to ask is why? red flags my friend. i thought it was good at the time also but i'm not paid millions to be the gm and have a lifetime of experience in the league.
Jerome James, I supported it, but it has not worked out. the MLE isn't a big deal, especially for 7 footers, you guys go overboard about this. I STILL think JJ will be a good piece for us.
this signing REEKED of desperation. why? b/c we traded nazr, we traded kurt, we had sweets an d mo and frye, whom they drafted as a center, wasn't good enough to play center for us leaving us with nothing. DESPERATION. $30 mil for 5 years? come on man. the MLE isn't a big deal? why? why couldn't we use that MLE on a player that would help? what if we used that mle on even a guy like james jones...or even damon stoudamire. you don't think those guys could've helped? jerome is a big fat pile of crap and a WASTE of $30 mil + luxury tax. this signing was worse than any signing layden did. even guys like harrington or fatspoon gave us double doubles...
Eddy Curry was a good move. He has beeen good for us all year. Not a superstar, but an impact player, and is 23 and learning.
if you're going to take a risk, then this is the one you take. doesn't mean he didn't overpay but this move can be justified. but he made an error in judgement again as he thought this move would put in the playoffs (hence the unprotected picks).
Because you don't like it, doesn't make sense to say theres not a plan. I like what was done with what we had. He had **** to work with.
have we gotten better defensively at all? in fact, have we brought in any legitimate defenders for our starting unit? this guy played with the bad boys. so, if you're not going defense, then you're going offense, right? well, he has brought in some nice offensive players. then why go out and get a coach that is the complete opposite of what you're trying to do? i think isiah's plan was to go uptempo and play like seattle or pheonix of last year. but he f'd up b/c the guy he brought in to coach it, is the antithesis. contradicting moves. isiah talks like he's old school. he says players should be tough...they should be coached old school like with lb or bobby knight. yet he goes and gets so many players that don't exemplify that.
Situations have changed and he has had to adjust. He signed Jerome James, and then Curry became available. I like what he has done, I do not like the losing, but I blame LB for that much more than Isiah. Our team isn't balanced, but we should have won way more games.
situations have changed b/c isiah had made some errors in judgement. he made an awful coaching hire in lenny. he has formed this bad relationship with the star player which has alienated some players we had (shandon, kurt). a coach has also been a casualty of this relationship (lenny). he has spent a ton of money in the process. people think we have flexibility? our best assets are steph, the young guys, and expiring deals. you want to trade the young guys? you want to trade steph? so that leaves the expiring deals...which will only yield, at the end of the day, another unwanted player that's flawed and continue this process.
i like the "general" direction of the team but i sometimes question whether it's b/c we have such a bad basis of comparison in layden or are we legitimately getting better. i think we are but i think there's some problems as well. he has made some good moves but he has made some bad ones. ying/yang is not what i want in a gm or else the process is delayed.
[Edited by - djsunyc on 01-23-2006 11:53 AM]
1/22/2006 9:21 PM
