Well at the end of the day it comes down to personnel preference, but I think most of us on here dont really care to get Lebronze. Im with those who would prefer to build a team that can stop lebroom from winning a championship, as opposed to signing lebroom or wade, players that have been the face of other franchises before ours.
This is a childish notion based on a need to grow homegrown talent. It has no relevance with regards to building the best possible team and wining as many titles as possible. It's a sentimental feeling and should be recognized as such. You are entitled to feel how you feel but it does not make for good basketball sense.
And 3 to 4 years is not our future...its kinda like when the smelltics got Garknotts and Ray Allen. Their future was Al Jefferson, but they gave up a guy that would be good for the next 10 or so years, in order to get some players that will be good for 3 to 4 more years.
Actually it is the text book definition of the future...it's one segment of it. As to the Celtics:
1. First and foremost they won a TITLE! How can you knock that? We haven't won a title in 40 years...
2. They picked up players in their 30's. All the players we are targeting are in their mid-20's except for Joe Johnson.
3. They are still a playoff team and have a legit although outside shot of winning another. The stars could align for them come playoff time.
4. You and the "master blogger" are advocating running our offense through a 31 year old, injury prone ex-allstar over signing Lebron or James!
U act like we're far away from being a playoff team and by not signing a big free agent, we will continue to suck for a long time. Give us a center that can block shots and rebound and just like that we can be a playoff team next year.
The Knicks keeping the same team after all these years is ridiculous. Might as well have kept Randolph and Crawford for that. For us to be a playoff team right now would involve a lot of
if's using his premise.
Lee, Chandler and Gallo must take another giant leap in skill level.
T-Mac must stay healthy and return to his former form
We need to gain size and move Lee to PF. (BTW, yet another fatal flaw in Metro's lineup)
Other teams in the east can't get better
Those are a lot of factors that make this plan wrong and a playoff birth far from guranteed. The most you can wait is to 2011 and thats only because you could not sign or trade for anyone.
In conclusion I will reiterate why this thread and premise fails:
1.You are putting your hopes in Tmac who is 31 and has a history of injuries.
2. This plan keeps Lee at the C spot and does nothing to address our DEFENSE.
3. After 4 games this guy is throwing Chandler under the bus for Walker.
4. The general idea that it's bad to sign FA's over homegrown players is emotional thinking and not how you should build a team. YOU GO FOR THE BEST TALENT...PERIOD.
5.This squad may just be good enough to make the 8th if all goes well and just bumps are pick out of the lottery making it unprotected. We then lose in the 1st round and lose our draft pick...no thanks!
