Please list me the ballsy moves that many a GM are making league-wide then, Copernicus.
That will take some time to compile all the mountains of info. Ill give you a couple though. Where the hell was Kevin when NJ was giving away lottery picks for free? He had already been working with NJ quite a bit. You telling me we couldnt have thrown something together that was better than a Gerald Wallace?
Where was he on the Gasol and Garnett trades. You telling me we couldnt have done better than those other teams with a Boozer/ Okur special?
Or how about Clippers giving away number one picks for an easily amnestied Baron Davis?
There are plenty of more trade examples out there too that go down every year, and KOC is nowhere to be found.
I know, I know, you have got good reasons why each one of those didnt go down for us. The point is that there are dumb GM's out there, and there are moves to be had if he wanted to. He could do more if he wanted to.
Now I know that being a trade happy GM isnt the way to go either, but refusing to trade is quite another. Kevin O Connor's philosophy is dont rock the boat, play it safe, let's just make sure we get in the playoffs.
Id rather make mistake after mistake then finally hit it big one time and win a championship, rather than being an early playoff exit every single year.
Not trading Boozer, Okur, and Jefferson is truly his legacy. He is perfectly fine with rolling with those players even though he knows(or at least he should) that they werent going to lead us anywhere. Instead of extracting some value out of them in a trade
You cant tell me either that Boozer wouldnt have net us anything. Chicago still signed him up big even after we all knew he was garbage.