Thing is, you arent doing anything. You are not contributing to the general discussion (constructively)
That's not true and you know it. Everything in here is just opinions, and mine are just as valid (or not) as anyone else's. Let's not pretend like there's some cabal of expert armchair GM's who have the power to define the "correct" line of thinking for a given situation.
See, I'm a
hardcore anti-tanker and that will never change. I understand that alone makes me really unpopular now that pretty much everyone (you included) has given up and gone over to the dark side. I'd rather quit following basketball altogether than start cheering for losses. I don't care what the context is.
I happen to think that Ainge made a conscious choice at the deadine that more or less thrashed the next couple of seasons (at least). We could have been buyers, traded for reinforcements (God knows we had the assets) and pushed hard for a playoff run. That was a
legit path that could have been taken.
But as we all know, DA preferred to start a tank even though he had a young All-NBA guy already on the roster, breathing fire. That's pretty much unheard of. You don't start to tank when you already have the most important building blocks in place. It was a bitch move. A scared move. This was the moment where I realized Ainge is an old man who's lost his mojo. And the armchair GM's are going along, having convinced themselves that we would have been swept in the 1st round or whatever. It's just a coping mechanism.
It's the consequences of this choice down the road that I'm especially interested in, and it ties to my post above that started this latest **** show. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Unless we hit an absolute jackpot in the draft or manage (against all odds) to swing a couple of big deals for immediate difference makers in the offseason, I believe Ainge's deadline decision will come back to haunt us in a big way. There's a real chance DA will have to trade Lauri sooner rather than later because he doesn't want to continue losing in the middle of his prime and would bolt in free agency.
After that, we're suddenly the Rockets. And it all started when Ainge didn't have the balls to push down the gas pedal when he had the chance.
