DUST... Week???

[ALuhrs704]

the JAX deal was a homerun deal last year. if it didnt work out, we wouldnt have lost anything last year. we were ugly on offense until jax came, and i'd like to think he was a major reason we made the playoffs. i dont see how it could not be a hr deal

[spectre]

Yes it was. I'm not saying he was an uber-valuable player. But for the situation the team was in, and for the price, it was smart.

If you go back and look at the "home run" acquisitions this past summer, none of them worked, and depending who you listen to, some backfired. Shaq was supposed to bring Cleveland a title. VC was supposed to get the Magic ahead of the Lakers. Richard Jefferson was supposed to give the Spurs the extra boost in the West. Yet each team regressed from the previous season.

Each situation is different. The 'Cats needed badly to make the playoffs, so risks were necessary. If you were the Cavs, Mavs, etc. it didn't make as much sense to risk so much when you were already close. Same deal here. The 'Cats need to either advance or regress. If they trade for Melo, they're taking the risk of regression to try to advance. Either one works, they just need to figure out which it is.

I didn't say we shouldn't have taken the risk...but the risk was definitely there. Especially with that contract. Go ahead and Google it; every team that was thinking about him was worried about that new deal he'd just signed.

That also prompted Don Nelson saying "It's harder than hell to trade that guy".

I don't consider any of those home runs...and esp. Dickie Jefferson. I thought the Spurs were fools at the time bailing out Milwaukee like they did. A home run to me is something like Gasol to LAL for Kwame Brown (tho Memphis did well with the picks). CP for Damp and youth/picks. Stuff like that.

[spectre]

the JAX deal was a homerun deal last year. if it didnt work out, we wouldnt have lost anything last year. we were ugly on offense until jax came, and i'd like to think he was a major reason we made the playoffs. i dont see how it could not be a hr deal

Yeah...tell that to Golden State. They probably thought the same thing that summer when they gave him that fat contract.

That's why every other team was after him and we had to offer our stellar package to trump all the other offers.

[teej]

I didn't say we shouldn't have taken the risk...but the risk was definitely there. Especially with that contract. Go ahead and Google it; every team that was thinking about him was worried about that new deal he'd just signed.

Oh, I totally understand that. And like I said, it wouldn't necessarily have been a home run deal for those teams. But in the situation Rod and MJ were in, it was for them. It could be a home run one place but a disaster somewhere else. It's all on a case-by-case basis.

I don't consider any of those home runs...and esp. Dickie Jefferson. I thought the Spurs were fools at the time bailing out Milwaukee like they did. A home run to me is something like Gasol to LAL for Kwame Brown (tho Memphis did well with the picks). CP for Damp and youth/picks. Stuff like that.

I agree with you. But I'm going by what the media defined as home run.

[ALuhrs704]

cleveland wanted jackson bad too.... but dampier just got waived according to cranstons twitter..... i guess we are stuck with what we got right now, baring a vet like flip, i wonder if this will have an effect on diaws trade status?