The only problem with this CP is I think you are ASSUMING way too much about what Mitch & Jim are going to do.
This is all useless banter until one of them actually speaks up or something happens. Unless you have a hidden mic in his office I think we all need to slow down on assuming on what these guys are thinking or doing.
Unfortunately we aren't in these meetings or offices so all we are doing is creating stories and assuming a lot.
Your are seriously gonna give yourself a heart attack my dude
And I don't wanna see that happen lol
It's not hard to figure these days tho man.
This isn't 1993 where you have to read the paper and even then have no idea what a team is up to, til it happens.
I can look right now and get a list of the free agents for 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, etc. We can see the draft prospects for this year, and next year, and probably the year after if I look hard enough.
I can see who has what picks the next 3-4-5 years.
The only thing I can't see is trades. But you see 1-2 real, big, earth moving moves in a year, 18 months if you're lucky.
I'm not *****ing about little things, I think they have done alright there. Finding Marshall, Wes, Xavier, Farmar, all on the cheap, I like that. That's great.
Giving Kobe 48 mil, not a ******* reason on the planet that's wise.
Trashing this pick, for no good reason, not wise.
Not trading Pau, Hill, Kaman, etc etc, no wise reason.
You can't fix that ****. We're stuck with a mess, THEY created.
When Dwight left, it sucked, but at the very, very, very brightest of sides, at least we could sit back and say hey, in 1 year, we will have a FULL cap space. We could have forced/begged/threatened Steve Nash to retire. Buy him out. Whatever. We could have the ENTIRE cap opened, cleaned, cleared.
Think about that. 2014, the LA Lakers have ZERO cap spendings. The whole joint, scrubbed clean.
Complete, brand new start. Starting with 1 Top 3 draft pick. (likely)
Kobe wants to stay and retire a Laker? Great, come talk contract with us, we'll get it done, properly tho. AFTER, we see your leg is healed.
Kelly's good? Great, let us talk about extending you.
All these other cheap young players, fine, let us talk.
That's what was within our grasp. Right there. Just had to wait til June 2014. Easy. Simple. Not a problem.
What did we do? Let Nash run around tellin the world he thinks he can still play, wants to still play, gonna try and still play.
Give Kobe his deal 7 months early.
Waste the value of the pick, then leak rumors about trading it.
Stay above the cap and luxury/repeater tax, etc, with a bunch of pending free agents that we most likely won't be keeping.
Acquired no new assets going forward outside of Kent Bazemore, if you consider him an asset. (I don't)
I have no prob bringing Bazemore back next year, but I don't consider him an asset. A bench/role guy, sure, like Luke Walton, I didn't consider Luke an asset either, and neither should anybody else.
So I retyped all this like the 20 billionth time, but that's the point. We can all look ahead in the internet age at the landscape of the NBA, and see what is coming, and going. Everyone knows Love, Rondo, Marc, LMA, Melo, etc are upcoming FA's, that their teams face the idea of trading them a year early, or letting them walk, etc, same as we just watched with Dwight. That's today's sports landscape.
We all saw the Dwight trade coming.
We all saw Ron getting amnestied.
What we did not see was Trading for a 38 year old PG.
The first two moves were good ones, we saw those coming. The last one, not a good move, which is why we didn't see it coming. Nor would we want to see it.
*when I say we, I don't just mean me, or anybody in here, I mean NBA writers, bloggers, twitter folk, people that follow the NBA daily, saw those moves coming, including some of us in here. We ALL saw Dwight trading to LA at some point, NO ONE saw Nash to LA. The Dwight deal made sense, and just didn't work out. The Nash deal, did not ever make much sense, outside of going all in for a single year. Which is what?
Poor planning.
Build long term > Build short term. Always.
