Did Joe D make the right move now in retrospect?
This is a team that would have had cap room anyway, and clearly had targeted Ben Gordon awhile back. Obviously this made Rip a tradeable player in their eyes and would try and use him to address our frontcourt needs.
My question is simply this. If we had just kept Chauncey and traded Rip for a big, couldn't we have signed BG anyway?
I think Joe D would have LOVED a rotation with Chauncey and Ben starting, and Stuckey off the bench. We could have still traded Rip for a Big, and we would be in largely the same position we are in now, except without Nova. Rather than a Chauncey for Ben Gordon deal, we really were looking more at a Chauncey for Nova IMO since I think we would have had enough cap room to get BG anyway.
Thoughts?
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