What was Joe's biggest mistake over the past 5 years?

[Glenn]

Poll coming. Give me a minute, there's a lot of possible entries, lol.

[Glenn]

Let me know if I forgot something worthy of inclusion and I'll get it added.

[Glenn]

I thought about including "Not taking the Nets GM job", lol.

[DrRay11]

Billups/AI trade encompasses giving away Afflalo for free, so I'm choosing that as the beginning of the end. IIRC, we were 4-0 at that point.

[Glenn]

This is hard.

[Timone]

I voted for the Billups/AI trade, but that deal (or lack thereof) with the Celtics stings really badly.

[Glenn]

I went with not doing Allen/Rondo for Stuckey/Tay/Rip

That move alone changes the fortunes of this team from that moment on.

It corrects the mistake of Rip's extension, eliminates the possibility of overpaying Stuckey, clears the logjam at guard, gives us an elite PG, and possibly an asset by doing a S&T of Ray Allen.

Not to mention that it prevents the organization from being the national punchline that we've become over the past two weeks.

[Timone]

Since you put it that way, I want to be a Dem and change my mind.

It corrects the mistake of Rip's extension, eliminates the possibility of overpaying Stuckey, clears the logjam at guard, gives us an elite PG, and possibly an asset by doing a S&T of Ray Allen.

P disagrees that Rondo is elite on the Pistons, doesn't he?

[Glenn]

Actually doing that Celtics deal probably eliminates or fixes about five of these other mistakes.

I already mentioned Rip's extension being fixed. Do we give away Afflalo if we don't have Rip and Stuckey? Would we have used our cap space differently, rather than signing CV/Gordon? Stuckey being forced to play PG isn't an issue anymore. Would we have kept Amir? Budinger?

[micknugget]

I voted for the FA signings of BG & CV. As bad as some of Joe's moves had been (including the Billups trade), FA was his chance to redeem himself and rebuild the team. It was an epic fail, in overpaying, in poor personnel choice, poor timing (the 1st day....really?), and signing a $10+ mil. SG when you already had one. We went from being in the drivers seat for FA to sucktitude. I see this as his worst move because it is the one that essentially broke the teams back.