The Will Barton Trade

And then there are some who can't fathom that people can look at the same data, and come to a different conclusion.

I said it was a bad trade at the time, using very sound logic.

 

Haven't seen anything in searching the forum that shows you voiced your displeasure of Barton leaving in the trade at the time. You did want Chandler over Afflalo (which I agreed with) but you didn't say we should keep Barton publicly until the summer after we dealt him and you saw him do fairly well at DEN.

What I did find is below and we have all been wrong a time or to so not calling you out. I bet you could find something I said that I regret as well.

 

I'm happy for Will...I think the trade gave him a rotation job which they didn't envision for him here..Will was really streaky...he'll help you win some games ..this season I've only seen him play a couple times and he got burned on the defensive side of the court...not sure we miss that element..he's a tough spark plug though and when it clicks he's really fun to watch

 

This trade still hurts my soul, mang.

 

My issue wasn't so much trading Barton, as it was overpaying for Afflalo.

Here is one of my posts over at Realgm from before the trade:

 

How do I know we let him bolt? Because he's not on the team.

 

It's a different conclusion, yes.

But it's the wrong one.

 

Barton is not the only example. T-Rob still hasn't found his place but would have been maybe our best PF if he stayed. Frazier would have been essential to our success and is now a starter for a team not far behind us in the standings. Leonard is another great talent being held back. We're far from fullfilling our potential and I think most of it is on the coach, some of it is having too many players all getting 15 minutes per game and not a real chance.