If you lived in Denver you would be.
Who was pissed AA got traded for nothing but cap space (that we used on Wilcox)?
ME!
Fuck!
The whole thread is depressing... but to find out my boy got paid big money is nice. Well deserved for a guy that works hard and plays with some fucking heart. Pity we don't have lots of guys like him on our roster...
maybe cause we trade them away for nothing
Rise like Lions after slumber,
In unvanquishable number -
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few.
Yargs is a smart dude and I love reading his posts... and in his defense he was looking at the glass half-full
BG and Nova were young and had some potential to show and prove.
They just didn't show and prove.
We also didn't flip Rip into Millsap or Boozer or any other big - which would have made a world of difference.
Imagine Kaman with Nova, Tay, BG and Stuckey
Imagine Millsap with Nova, Tay, BG and Stuckey
Imagine if Stuckey actually fucking developed!
2-3 years wasted....
I wonder how long Gores has given Joe to turn things around?
Rise like Lions after slumber,
In unvanquishable number -
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few.
I agree, that was one of my better efforts. Can I save grace by stating at one point following the 2007 draft that Afflalo would turn out to be the better player in comparison to stuckey since he just led a solid conference in scoring (pac 10), led his team to the title game and appeared to be a guy that puts forth the effort to get better (while stuckey just led his team to a .500 record and seemed like a guy without a jump shot or exeptional athletic ability...I hated the rodney stuckey pick)?
Ok, probably not. But I've always valued guys that win and seem to elevate their game when the games matter most. It's why I liked Big Baby that off-season since he just came off of a stellar playoffs where he elevated his game and averaged 16 a night in 14 playoff games (he averaged 18 and 7 against the bulls in round 2). I still contend that if dumars hadn't misread how much it would have cost to get Big Baby (he essentially released afflalo because he thought he'd cleared enough money to spend on baby but was wrong) he would have been a piston and done well for a team that needed a guy that could score in the paint.
Having said that, the afflalo contract is very bad. He really isn't anything more than a spot-up shooter. A really, really good one, but he is severly limited in his ability to create shots for himself and others. He averaged less than 13 pts a game last year in over 33 minutes which isn't very good. He's going to have to severly step up his game to be worth what he's being paid.
As for BG and CV, I think gordon is a waste and needs to go and will go. Under-sized shooting guards that can't defend the 2 or even shoot consistently anymore are a waste of time. I hate him and hope he proves me wrong.
As for CV, I think if he's limited to being an instant offensive big off the bench (similar to how the pistons used corliss) he could still impact this team positively. When he is on he can score pts in a hurry and change a game. The problem is he hasn't done that often but then again he hasn't really been used in this way either. Identify a role for him and stick with it.
Yep. Trading Afflalo for nothing pissed me off more than any other move Joe has made. He was a great complement to Stuckey should he remain at PG and would have been a nice change of pace from Ben Gordon. hell, three guard lineups would have been easier to pull off with him around.
I'm still a little disappointed that the new ownership clean slate didn't extend to the front office.
I don't think AA got paid that kind of money because he produced 13 points in 33 minutes.
I think he got that money for what he brings to that team that you can't measure on a boxscore.
Work ethic, professionalism, attitude, etc
Rise like Lions after slumber,
In unvanquishable number -
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few.
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