Ok, taken a little time to think about it before I emotionally pop off.
More calm, so for starters I'm sick in my stomach because garpax is still here and have secure futures, and through their trickery found a way to make it skiles fault, then Vinny del negro fault, then ben gordon fault, then thibs fault, the rose and noah fault, now it's Jimmy's fault, but the 2 idiots are still here.
The selection at 7th, is exactly why I didn't want a rebuild in there hands, because they are forever making the pick to try and look smarter than everyone in the room. I've watched some of his footage. And just like I felt when some of us were raving for niko I don't see what's special here.
Jimmy deal was supposed to set up our future, we basically got dunn who looks like a bust right now, yes that can change, but let's be honest most of the times players don't get it.
Lavine has a higher ceiling than jimmy, but coming off a acl, after just dealing with a player struggling with knee issues, just doesn't sit well with me. Like if lavine suffers another season ending injury, or struggles a bit to get his game back, can we say we surprised? No, the writings were on the wall for that.
Cap space means nothing, cause nobody is coming here. So
At worst, what we got for a clear top 12 player in the league, was a guy with 1 foot out the league, a guy coming off a acl injury, who by the way has an extension coming up as well and another slow footed white guy who could bust just as much as mcdermott and niko did.
Now maybe dunn plays much better with no thibs there, maybe lavine solidifies himself as a star and lauri is porzingas light, then it's a good deal. But I don't think it's crazy to say, that's hard to see right now. In a jimmy deal I shouldn't have to be waiting and seeing, that's ok in the taj trade, not ok when your trading your franchise player. Talking with the "hope" is how all fan bases talk once they franchise player is shipped out, and more than likely the shyt never pans out, then you just on a repetitive cycle of shuffling through young players til something starts working.
Right now the only hope is that lavine becomes a legit star, cause if he doesn't , and dunn continues to stink, and the best we can get out of lauri is a channing frye type, we just signed up to be horrible for the next 10 years. Even with bringing in top picks coming up. Losing culture sets in. And that is hard to shake off your organization. So I'm praying for lavine cause this is going to really suck if it doesn't work.
OK rant done, sorry for the long post.