I think that happened because most of us fans wanted to find a positive in that trade, something that would help us in the future.
Besides two unprotected draft picks, three second rounders, assurance that the young guys would get playing time, a shot at a nice pick for the best draft since 2008 (if not 2003)? Seems to me the only payoff to the trade was the future and that Rush actually represents the only concrete piece to that trade.