Amen. It's why trading Ewing for bad contract, then trading them for more bad contracts... Eschewing the draft (trading picks for Mcdyess and Curry)... Doomed Dolan and led to a lost decade.
He tried to imitate his daddy, who brought in the BIG fish, but each legend Dolan Jr brought in flopped and floundered and ultimately failed.
Worse thing is... He keeps repeating his mistakes. It got so bad, NBA had to step in and force Walsh on NYK.
I thought Walsh had a sound plan but I think he set team back, of which we are still paying for that. When the an is to fail and lose and pave way for Lebron... And you give away all your players for peanuts (didn't even grab draft picks for Randolph AAnd Crawford)... Then you cannot build a vet team (Harrington, Hughes, Duhon)... Why win 29 games? If we would've lost 4 games more those first 2 seasons of Danotni... We have Russell Westbrook and Steph Curry right now!
Oh, and Randolph and Crawford are still productive contributors...
Now, Walsh handled Melo trade perfectly...he was willing to surrender Gallinari and Chandler (bc we weren't going to re-sign Wilson)... Even Felton was fine, bc we would get Billups... He drew line at Mozgov, and wisely so...
Den had no leverage. Walsh was prepared to call everyone's bluff, preferring to hold on to all his assets and let Melo come that summer in free agency... Then Dolan stepped in... Rest, unfortunately, is history