Your post and mine are not mutually exclusive. I still want to keep the core (Aldridge, Batum, Matthews, Williams); just jettison the flotsam (Felton, Crawford, Wallace, Camby) for something potentially useful in the future.
This is what I agree with as well. If we are going to try and rebuild, then we keep our youth and trade our older players for picks and or youth. We can't be in limbo. Either we shit or get off the pot.
There are a few problems we are running into. People do not want to give up picks without us taking back money. Something management appears uneasy to do with picks that are in the 20s. Teams are also very reluctant to give up first rounders in general, its not making a lot of sense to me but I think it could be because of the luxury tax rules having rookies that produce are going to have much greater value then they do now. The Luxury tax rules are making teams not want to take on a lot of money even if that money expires before the rules really kick in, which will be the year after next, and we apparently are in with that group or we want maximum money this off season. Like it or not, and you can throw out any idea you want for the reason (PA selling the team ect), we are going for maximum cap space this summer to try and retool around both LA and Batum. The bad side of this is that there are a lot of teams with a lot of money and this years FA class isn't very good. People are going to be very overpaid and we have also never been a very big FA attraction. The next two years near the trade deadline big contracts for overpaid fringe allstar players (Gay/Granger/Igoudala/Wallace ect) are going to be going on a fire sale because of how close to the brutual Luxury tax we will be. Most if not all teams really have there eye on that Tax increase. Thats what worries me the most about this summer, is that we are going to overpay decent players like they are good players and end up like the KG wolves, a decent team but never great because of huge contracts we can't get around for average players. Since so much of this is up in the air and no long term plan has been revealed its hard to have faith in management that almost everyone on this board deems inept. I won't go as far as to say there are dark days ahead, but i'll go as far as to say we won't make a big deal and we will finish the season with what we have an enter the Lottery at a 10 or 11 pick. At this point all we can hope for is that management has a plan and one that isn't retarded. I would also be remiss if I didn't add FIRE NATE before I have to shove a spork in my eye to have something slightly less painful to concentrate on every-time I watch a game.
If Spoelstra can't in a title with James, Wade, and Bosh, how in the world is he going to win one in Portland?
