I really liked a quote that I saw from Charlotte's Rod Higgins after the Gerald Wallace trade. I don't have the exact quote, so you'll have to look it up if you want it, but in response to fans and critics of their decision to trade Wallace, despite being in the hunt for a playoff spot, he said (paraphrase), "The 7th or 8th playoff spot is not what we're after, we want to get to a championship level".

Now granted, what Rod Fucking Higgins has to say doesn't carry a lot of weight, but I love that mentality, and it's the exact opposite of Joe's (and some here's) philosophy of just being happy with trying to make the playoffs.

And you now see the result of that strategy.