ballocks

i don't necessarily disagree here. but there are two things i don't know which would change the way i feel:

1) what did/does colangelo have on the table? for example, we can complain about not trading with portland to get a player and the #4 contract instead of the #1 contract, but how do we know it was even available? may not have been. can't criticize the man for something he couldn't do.

likewise, what major contributors have been available on the trade front to this point in the summer? we can howl about players like rashard lewis (i like him, too) until the cows come home, but how do we know colangelo had any real options?

if there was truly nothing available to net some more value for the capspace we spent years acquiring, i don't see how any of us could really complain- myself included. it's nobody's fault, not bryan's; it's just the way it is.

2) the summer's not over yet. i know we say that a lot, and it surely ain't much fun to wait around for everything to happen, but assuming bryan passed on several 'opportunities' in 1), i would have to also believe he did it for a reason. maybe he's working on something as we speak, something that couldn't have been executed had we decided to move the 1 and/or use our cap flex already.

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at the same time, i concede that i'm wishful thinking here. if nothing happens to render this thread moot by the end ('big' signing, 'big' trade, whatever), i'll be frustrated myself by our inability to optimize our potential this summer. that doesn't mean i don't think the moves we've made (namely the euro signings) will help us; i'm just saying that we almost certainly could've gotten more regardless.

i mean, i know we improved this summer. you'd have to be seriously challenged to think otherwise. but it would've almost been impossible not to. if we settle for jorge and parker and retain only limited capspace for in-season trades, i'll regret that we didn't maximize the potential for this summer.

now, i don't mind that we didn't dive into the nba free agent pool yet. i personally think it's horrendous this year. but we didn't trade jalen rose and denver to get anthony parker and/or jorge garbajosa and/or anyone else whose market value is conceivably lower than, i don't know, jason terry's. that doesn't mean i'd rather have jason because i'd spend more on him- it's just a market value issue. the "order of operations", if you will, has to be considered. why do we seem to be doing it backwards? i'd love to have an answer to that question- and maybe i'll get it soon.

but tj ford is money. i'm dying to see him run this team. andrea's a gem. nesterovic will quiet people, which itself has some value to me. humphries will bring more than hoffa- quite frankly, i think hoffa and eric were addition by subtraction departures. well done. but i won't settle. i said it going into the summer and i'll say it again: we started this with all the cards. in my mind, we had the healthiest position in the league when this all began.

hopefully something else is on the go because i want to take advantage of it all. signing two players who presumably had little interest from the rest of the league would not cut it for me. doesn't matter to me whether they're clyde drexler and buck williams- we need to manage our flexibility here like pros... and get it all.

i don't think i'm asking for too much.

peace

cram

i have no problems with the signings (though the length of the salmons deal makes me go "hmmm.."), but do have a problem with eating up >MLE cap space on less-than-MLE signigns. Just doesn't make sense to me. Could have signed one of these guys and acquired another next year with an MLE signing.

Plus, Team Mao -- why the problem with me surfing realgm as well as basketballboards? If you don't do the same, how did you find my post on that board so quickly?

Junkyard Dog13

Nothing great about Rashard similar to Mo Pete in terms of at times will dissipear.

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Team Mao

Surfing I never said anything about. It's the copy and paste of the exact same posts that bother me. It's like listening to someone make the same argument but doing it word for word. The same argument I don't mind, it's hearing (or reading) the same thing word for word two different times. Hey, they're your posts, so it's up to you what to do with them. It just rubs me the wrong way, that's all. No hate

c_dog

what's the point of going after these bigger name free agents? most if not all of them aren't interested in TO and we'd have to seriously overpay them to get them to come here. this freeagent class quite frankly isn't too great either. i think BC is doing the right thing by bringing in some immediate help real cheap and keeping the rest of the cap space.

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