2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[mvossman]

It soooo was. In a variety of ways. 

Again, two separate conversations for me. 

I am happy KP is gone. NOTHING the new guys do/don't do will change that. For that matter, neither will anything KP does in Washington.

I am hoping the new guys can be closer to the rosier predictions than the pessimistic ones. I can see validity in both sets of predications. I am probably somewhere in between. 

KP is gone!!!! We should all be meeting up to party. Instead, we're wasting this brief period of relief from regret to prematurely complain about how bad the new guys are (there will be plenty of time for that later) and dwell on where the team is now, relative to when Luka was drafted (that IS a depressing topic). 

But KP is gone!!!!!!! Things are possible again.

I'm curious what things are possible again?  We have literally no assets as most of our contracts are neutral or negative.  We will be in cap hell and supposedly lux tax hell (although one of my many concerns with this trade is that Dinwiddie make it more likely for Brunson to bolt and Cuban to let him go).  It will be a couple of years before we can do anything.

It would be one thing if we traded KP contract for air and started over (although it would not have cleared much cap space).  But we traded it for two more terrible contracts, and guys that have just as much availability and fit concerns as KP did.  We all envisioned a lot of potential KP trades, and none of them were nearly as bad as what it turned out to be.  

This is not a time to celebrate.  It is a time for morning.  The KP experiment failed miserably, and the new experiment has way less hope for success.