Originally Posted by
erupt107th
I'm at work so here goes a long post. Here's my thought on the trade:
Trading BD
I don't think there's any clipper fan who didn't think the Baron contract was terrible the moment Benedict Brand decided to go to philly. The contract was only given to him with the thought of potentially becoming a contender which obviously went out the window when Brand left.
Now 3 lottery-pick seasons later we're even worse off than we were that summer(record wise). So we have a 30+ PG who has been playing great the last month or two but are we really going to contend next year? I would say the earliest we would realistically make some noise would be in 2012-2013 and i believe BD would be making about 16mil. Mind you he most likely wouldn't even be starting PG at that point. So why not move him and give us a chance for Deron Williams or someone else?
Trading 1st Rd Pick
Giving up our 1st RD pick is what initially bothered me and i think what most people are making fun of our FO for. From all accounts (even here on NT) this is one of the weakest draft classes since the Warrick draft. On top of that with eric Gordon coming back soon and Kaman just coming back im pretty sure we would have been playing better ball and end up with around the 10th best record. So let's say we got the 10th pick in a weak draft what could we have gotten? A better PG than BD/bledsoe? better SG that EG? better SF than aminu? better PF than Blake? better C than DJ/Kaman? I doubt we would have been able to get someone who would start on our team anytime in the near future so I'm okay with trading it. Another thing that seems to be slipping people's minds is that we have the T'wolves unprotected first rounder next year which will most likely be a lottery pick. So i don't think we lose much by trading our 1st rd even tho i DO wish we would have protected it just in case we got a top 3 pick by some miracle.
Getting that *#^@! Mo Williams
Now my main problem with the trade is getting this $(%@! Mo Williams. My hate for him is STRONG. Ever since his All-star crying my hate has just been growing and growing. Him disappearing in the playoffs, crying when bron left and then the "im a big deal" attitude when they beat us as if they weren't the worst team in the lg. People say BD only shows up for big games and I counter with Mo Williams having one of his worst seasons and it just so happens to be the year bron leaves. Don't give that injury crap either. You think he wouldn't play through those if bron was still there? He's a coward. I pray to god we trade him or buy him out because my biggest fear is that he plays great for us and I have to cheer for this lame.
Moon
Don't really care about moon. Either sucks and it's what we all expected or he plays 7 min a game and gives us some energy.
IMO we should have tried to move Foye for someone/picks while his stock is growing right now. He's been playing great lately so I wouldn't mind him off the bench when EG gets back but i think we could have fooled a team into giving us a nice future pick for him.
All in all i don't think we got swindled like most people are making it seem but i DO think we could have done a little better. The only thing that could make us look terrible is if the Cavs find a diamond in the rough with our pick which would be likely to happen with our luck
