<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Dumpy @ Feb 20 2008, 01:40 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>OK, one last thing. Do you think that a premier free agent will sign with the Nets to play with a roster of crap? What sort of advice do you think they'd get from Dwayne Wade right about now? Just because you have money to spend doesn't mean that a free agent will accept it! If you completely strip the roster and hope to sign a couple of free agents, it won't happen, and it will be a disater. You will end up having to overspend for some mid-level free agent that is NOT a star and has NO potential. You will have a roster full of Jamaal Magloires.
Right now the Nets are starting to put together a decent young core, but it is no better than other teams with decent young cores. If the Nets trade Carter for expiring contracts and nothing else, it will signal that this team will not be competitive for a LONG time. It will look like November 2004.
Again, if you could get, say, Miami and NY's first-round picks this year by trading Carter, then it would be a fascinating study. But absent something like that, I think you're just dooming this team to a terrible dark future.</div>
I agree with most everything. I'd definitely not want to trade Carter solely for cap space. And if we don't get both picks, then no deal.
The way I see it, we could either 1) take a chance at the FA market. This is extremely risky, and, in the case of teams such as the Clippers, it doesn't work.
Or we could 2) play the draft. Sometimes this works, with Portland as a great example, and the Bulls up until this season. Maybe even look at Boston, they did pretty good with their picks and young players. Half got traded for a superstar, the other half are helping the team to the best record in the NBA. Of course, there is always the Atlantas of the league, who, no matter how hard they try, just can't get out of the lottery.
Oh, and on another note, with your other posts: Carter's putting up great numbers. Some nights, he's playing great. But the losses REALLY diminish those stats. The fact that Kobe and Lebron have really good teams (even Lakers pre-Gasol) sort of enhance their stats.
Plus, there's something you don't see in the statline: His level of effort, and his defense. Both have to come in question. I mean, some nights, you'll see him trying hard, and other nights, he'll just sit on the perimeter and watch until they give him the ball to throw up an ugly shot (which sucks for him. I actually feel bad that he has to deal with this offensively shitty team on some nights).
While I wouldn't completely discount the fact that he has been injured, and have to give him some recognition for what he does on some nights, he's just not consistent. He doesn't give his all every night, and it gets annoying to see him throwing up bricks when he could be attacking. I just gotta say, he's not looking like a player who really deserved all of that 60 million. In my eyes, at least.
