Posted by fishmike:
there are a handfull of guys in this league that are 'build around' players. These are guys that if you stick a bunch of good role players around you will have a good team. Dwight Howard, Lebron, Wade, KG, Chris Paul, Dirk, Nash, Kobe and possibly Amare and Yao are all guys that will take you to the playoffs every year if they have any kind of supporting cast.
To me these are the only level of guys you let good players walk in order to sign. If we let Lee and Nate walk but bring in Wade we will be a playoff team for the next ten years because he's going to make every guy around him better.
If we let Lee and Nate walk and pay Bosh or Joe Johnson $17mm we still a 30 win team. What have we accomplished?
If you trade for Bosh, it means you're trying to do one of two things:
a) make subsequent moves to free up cap space and then pair Bosh with a max FA. What have we accomplished? We'd have one of the top duos in the league. OR
b) You're abandoning the 2010 plan, in which case you keep Lee, Nate, and Duhon long-term and easily have a playoff team to start building with--Unless you're saying all of those guys will be included in any trade to get Bosh.
I'd prefer plan A because I think it's more likely to lead to a championship contender.
[Edited by - bonn1997 on 04-09-2009 11:18 AM]
