Michael Jordan defends deadline trade

[CatNation]

Y'all can't deny that MJ's words and actions are in total opposition to each other. Like Erik pointed out, MJ lacks direction.

I deny it, I think he has found his direction. I think when we called to inquire about Deron, Utah told us, "hey Wallace and DJ is a pretty good offer, what kind of picks do you have to offer?"

MJ realized stockpiling picks is the only way to get anywhere in this league as a small market team, whether its by trading them for a star or getting young players. I'm excited. I think we'll grab a couple more picks in the offseason

[SWedd523]

No doubt, but I'm not quite sure why you think shipping off a glorified 3rd option level player should immediately net us contender level pieces. Thats nor how it works. Like I said, Sonics got Jeff Green and Wally Z for RAY ALLEN and a 2nd round pick for Rashard Lewis in their rebuild. If you want to rebuild in the draft, you are going to have to REALLY suck for a while. Some of you don't seem to get that.

I never said we should get a lottery pick out of the deal. Just that if he's rebuilding (as he claims) then he's going about it in the wrong way, i.e. the slow way. Now that we moved Crash without attaching a bad contract to him, we're going to have to wait for them to expire. It doesn't have to be Diop. Moving Diaw would have been fine, moving Hammer would have been fantastic (still can't believe we traded an expiring for him LOL)


Getting out of bad contracts helps you rebuild a LOT faster than mid 1st round picks.

[CatNation]

The problem is, nobody wants Diaw, Diop, Jackson, Carroll, even with Crash included without taking back a bad contract like Calderon or something. You are still overrating his value.

[SWedd523]

The problem is, nobody wants Diaw, Diop, Jackson, Carroll, even with Crash included without taking back a bad contract like Calderon or something. You are still overrating his value.

How do you know that?

[Marvel]

I deny it, I think he has found his direction. I think when we called to inquire about Deron, Utah told us, "hey Wallace and DJ is a pretty good offer, what kind of picks do you have to offer?"

MJ realized stockpiling picks is the only way to get anywhere in this league as a small market team, whether its by trading them for a star or getting young players. I'm excited. I think we'll grab a couple more picks in the offseason

Hmm, reading a lot of the fans reactions in response to the trades, they brought in to MJ's words at the beginning of the season when he expressed his desire to make the playoffs. Those fans are skeptical now after trading away our franchise player for role players (2 more power forwards than we need) an expiring and 2 late 1st rounders.

[CatNation]

How do you know that?

Because thats how it happened.