Gyp Rosetti
Banned
Almost always the wrong decision? This isn't the NBA of the 1960's, 70's or 80's. How did the sit and cross your fingers routine work out for Cleveland?
Almost always the wrong decision? This isn't the NBA of the 1960's, 70's or 80's. How did the sit and cross your fingers routine work out for Cleveland?
Greg seems very caught up in the trends of stars, not what his player is actually expressing. That is a ****ing huge mistake.
Archie Moses
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+7 for making me laugh.
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Deleted member 365
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But isn't that the catch?
The Jazz HAD to trade him.
The only other choices would have been:
1. Allow Deron to dictate where to be traded, when, and for who.
2. Let Deron leave for nothing.
Considering those 2 scenarios, this one was BY FAR the best.
unluckyseventeen
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It'd look a lot better to Cleveland and Toronto right now had they traded those guys instead of letting them walk for nothing. Denver looks great for what they did considering Melo put them in a hole, and the Jazz followed suit. Hindsight is obviously 20/20 but I think engaged fans generally have a good sense of what's going to happen with star players, and people have been talking about Deron opting out and walking after his contract is over for a while now.
Half of the battle in the NBA, especially nowadays, is just hanging onto assets. Letting an asset like Deron Williams walk is SUCH an epic loss. The Jazz got 2 good draft picks out of it, a reasonably decent point and a player with a lot of upside. Looks much better when compared to nothing.
Besides, what was Deron doing this season that was helping us win? 4-14 over the past however long looks bad no matter who is running the show, and we haven't had that bad of a stretch in a really long time.
Lebron wasn't traded.
And can you imagine what would've happened had they traded him? They held strong and lost, oh well.
Archie Moses
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His point went clearly over your head, guy. I still love you and look forward to losing my money to you at the next poker tourny.
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He wasn't saying that.
He was saying sitting back and waiting past the time to make a move was the critical mistake Cleveland made. Luckily, we avoided it, by getting a headstart in trading Deron and getting assets back before the NBA has a lockout/Deron bends us over/it becomes obvious the Jazz are in trouble. Think any team would have helped out the Jazz had they known that Deron was demanding a trade/wanted to jump ship?
unluckyseventeen
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And now their team is in the ****ter with no assets, whatsoever. Yeah, oh well. With some luck it'll only take 4 or 5 years for their team to be halfway decent again.
Gyp Rosetti
Banned
Exactly. And they didn't get **** for him moran.
Let's take back this trade, sit and hope Deron will re-sign, and then watch as he fades into the sunset, giving us the finger, us empty-handed.
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They would probably be in playoff contention? Or at least could have received assets to help them rebuild?