<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">I was doing a radio show this past week, and only a scarcity of callers rang the station on this particular day. Suddenly, a caller questioned why Walker was so disliked by the fans' team base. In a scant second the phone lines were lit up like the Ginza District in Tokyo. "He hasn't done one thing to help the team," one caller said. But, I countered, "They just went to the second round of the playoffs." "Well they haven't done anything this summer." So goes the perception that Seattle's management team is a bumbling bunch of Key(Arena)stone Cops whose jobs were saved last season by former coach Nate McMillan and superstar guard Ray Allen, who was fighting for a new contract.</div> ESPN
Oh frank, you idiot. These sports writers are just plain stupid. The idea that we will get most of a "surprise team" back is just not that exciting. Sorry. The idea is to improve on the team, not to try to keep some of it together. It is great that we get Allen back, and maybe some other key pieces, but that isn't enough. Again, sorry. Not enough, period. Fans are not going to be satisfied with a team that might be almost as good as last season. We want the team to get better, at least on paper. Wally had no idea what he had last season. He was as surprised as everybody else. I honestly feel that is why Nate left (other than money). He knew we couldn't do that again with the team we have now. No faith in upper managment. Until Wally Schultz and Sund go out and make some big moves, fans are going to be skeptical. We need to replace those key elements we lost. But the die hards that dislike wally stay true to the team, like me. We love our team. We just want a little more effort out of the brass. It is nice to hear that your team tried to get a key player through trade or free agency, even if they don't. We just want to know that we are trying to get better.
