Sorry this will be kinda a rant thread, since I'm getting so tired of everyone blaming Weis for ruining our season and that this season was a total waste because of this trade, etc. We did get more benefits out of this then you guys think. Injuries killed our season, not this trade. 1. Dwight Howard got more touches. After the trade, Dwight became the 3rd option instead of 4th or 5th he was with Mobley. He's not going to develop without touches. Honestly if we kept Mobley, I doubt Dwight woulda even been as close in the ROY voting as he was. 2. Johnny Davis got fired. Most of the older members here know how much I hate this guy. He's a moron. We were loaded with talent, which made it almost impossible for JD to screw it up(hence the fast start, he was trying to blow it though) With Mobley gone, JD showed how bad of a coach he was. He wasn't plagued with injuries and had talent like Dwight, Jameer, Hill, Francis, Hedo, Cato/Battie, and Stevenson and he couldn't get us wins. 3. Christie has an 8.2 expiring year deal this year. I am aware that we are way over the cap so it won't really help us out, but we could potentially be seeing a trade such as GSW getting Baron for 1 big expiring and a decent young guy. Also would you rather have gotten nothing in return for Mobley after he would have left this offseason? At least we got someone that could be potentially good trade bait to rebuilding teams. 4. Jameer and Stevenson got a chance. Jameer was amazing once we started starting him. If we had Mobley still do you think that he would have started? NO. Stevenson got a chance to show his talent when Jent took over. (Another reason that made JD look like the moron that he was, he was at the deepest corner of the bench with JD and avg 16 ppg, I could be wrong with that number, but I think that's what it was, when he was given a chance) Both of these guys are still continuing to develop. And if worse comes to worse, we can maybe trade Stevenson with Cato/Christie for a disgruntled superstar. 5. Draft lottery tonight. We will get a chance to see how magical(pun intended) Pat Williams and his luck is. Honestly I wouldn't be surprised at all, although we only have a 2.4% chance to get a top 3 pick(.8% chance to get #1). We have the luckiest team with Pat Williams winning the last 3 times he was at the lottery and don't forget Stevie Franchise being there when they got the #1 pick when they got Yao. 6. Basically to give the fans hope. Yes we didn't make the playoffs and choked at the end of they year because of injuries, but we see how good Dwight was at the end of the year with his touches, same with Stevenson and Jameer. We also have Hedo, so we are very young. We do have nice veteran leadership though in Cato, Battie, Hill, Francis. We are a solid all around team and depending on the new coach, we could become a playoff team next year and a playoff contender the following year. So stop complaining about how the MObley for Christie trade hurt us. I would be willing to sacrifice a season(in which we woulda had to play against Shaq more than likely in the playoffs) to let the young guys develop and give us hope. Dwight, Jameer, Hedo are going to be around for a long time(knock on wood) and will be the core of this team in the near future, once Hill retires.
Yeah I like some of these like giving Dwight more touches and helping us with the lottery haha. It's good to see someone looking on the bright side of things and try to encourage the rest of us Magic fans.
If bringing in someone for Doug could make the trade for me a little better. I hated it when Cat was traded but the first 3 game Doug played I loved him then can the Sac. game and all went down as he got mad and now doesnt want to play for us. Lets ship him out as Weis is gone and get someone back who wants to play for us.
Thanks Gators its a good read and MickeyEyez u should find something in here that you might agree with.
