This team can't win a title as presently constructed. That means Boston had two real options at the deadline. Blow it up and look for assets (trading PP and KG and whatever else you could) OR try to add pieces to give the team a better shot at winning this year (that would have likely meant trading Rondo). Adding Jordan Crawford does nothing for either of those goals. Boston will likely be the 6th, 7th, or 8th seed and likely will not get out of the second round (if even the first), which just delays the inevitable. Danny needed to move the team off of center. Go for it or rebuild. Sitting pat just wastes the season. Congrats Danny, another year gone and another year Boston doesn't win the title or enter rebuilding looking for that next title winning group.
Another year? Last year we were the only team that could have beaten the Heat and we were up 3-2 on them. Honestly, given the Thunder's weak showing in the Finals, the ECF were actually the Finals...Anybody who claims we were not a contender last year is being intellectually dishonest. As it turned out, we were the ONLY contender other than the Heat.
This position is revisionist history. Year in and year out the Cs have been serious contenders that nobody has wanted to catch in a 7 game series. We have had some injuries derail Title runs but this is a feared team around the league.
Plus, it really burns me that people think that trading PP and KG for paltry "chips" is actually rebuilding. DeAndre Jordan and Eric Bledsoe were a non-stop, one-way ticket to Nowheres-ville. Trading KG for that package might have been one of the worst GM moves of all-time. And all we would be left with was watching our playoff run be handed over to one of the teams l like the least (the Clips). The air would have been so sucked out of our bubble I would have struggled to watch games.
As for making this current team better, I really don't know what to say. It's not like other GMs made moves that I can criticize Danny for not pouncing on. If Smith or Gortat had been moved for reasonable packages, I would be the first one to express disappointment. Just because I think we aren't that far from competing this yeaer even with all of our injuries. But that didn't happen, and that criticism of Danny could be directed at every other GM around the league. What about Sam Presti, the GM everyone says runs circles around Danny? Would you be happy as a Thunder fan this year with him doing nothing at the deadline AND trading away a potential future league MVP in Harden for "chips"?
The way Danny has played this season so far was really the only way to go. All the other rumored avenues were far, far inferior and could have been catastrophic.
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