First of all, a number of people have gone well beyond that POV. If you wade thru the various threads, you will find quite a few comments along the line of "I'm glad we didn't trade for Wallace/Butler if it would have meant giving up Batum!" Sorry, but those kinds of arguments are silly rationalizations. Second, I have my doubts about how KP defines a deal that "bettered the teams circumstances." I really hope KP didn't walk away from good deals just because he was determined to take nothing less than a slam dunk. I also hope he didn't walk away from deals just because the player was "too old". Adding a vet might not win us the title this season....but it might help the youngsters grow up faster.
What is silly is this entire thread. Arguing about something you have no knowledge of is irrational. Its like seeing two homeless guys on sixth street arguing.
Wallace has played exactly 52 minutes of playoff basketball in his 7 year career and hasn't even reached the playoffs as a starter.
I've mostly stayed away from this board today to avoid the "sky is falling" posts. How can you be upset? KP built this team from virtually nothing, is one of the most respected GM's in the league, had the term "Pritch-slapped" coined for him...and even though we don't know any specific details of the trade offers made, many are pissed because he didn't make a move. Thats crazy!
Raef LaFrentz Expiring Contract + Insurance kicker. Sorry, when we've all been hyping this up for the last 8-10 months as a valuable asset and we just let it do nothing, people are going to be pissed.
But you don't know what was offered to us for it. Do you like what KP has done in the past? If so, then why do you not trust him all of a sudden? I believe, with the limited info I have as a fan, that KP did the right thing because his track record is spectacular.
It's still a valuable asset because the team only pays 20% of it and keep extra cashflow in the budget. How many times do I have to post this before you acknowledge it?
Yeah, and amazingly, you are coming off as even more ignorant now as to what being under the cap means in this climate.
What, based on the current state of the US economy? Overrated IMO. I'll believe it when I see it, I think banking on this kind of leverage is pretty foolish as we had something better than cap space...a HUGE expiring contract that is being paid 80% by insurance.
Sorry for not remembering every thread you started on a different forum under a different name. But even if you disliked KP before today, I think you are in the vast minority. Even so, you don't know what was offered for RLEC. How can you be mad that we turned down a deal, when you don't know what the deal was????
Oh, I acknoweldge it. It doesn't make our team better having Raef on our roster still...it just means we can make trades this summer for guys we could have obtained now, but instead, we'll have to send more talent back.
It's your fault for hatching the egg early. I'm putting you on ignore. You're my first, but you don't even bother to read factual posts.
Actually we'll have to put more in IMO. The expiring contract was larger and more valuable than the cap space we could free up. To get to 13 million, we'll just have to waive Blake, Outlaw and Frye with no compensation back. We had 13 million in RLEC.
