(06-29-2022, 02:14 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: What's bothering me (not with you, specifically) is the refusal to acknowledge that - plainly, straight up - Dallas is about to let their 2nd best player walk immediately after the team got to the WCF. I would just hope that we could all be real about that, even if we're not going to dwell on it or be pissed, rather than search for rationalizations on why it might be a good thing.
Everyone realizes this. I don't think anyone thinks it's a good thing. Some people are fine throwing a bank at JB and others think that's too rich of a contract. For those opposed to the contract, it doesn't mean they are rationalizing why it's a good thing. It is seemingly a spilt milk situation and everyone is just armchair GM'ing, as we are want to do, to try to turn chicken shit into chicken salad.
The sky might be falling in that we had Luka and JB on rookie deals and the best player we could put next to Luka was actually JB with your runner ups being not particularly close (Dirk on one leg, flashes of KP "greatness", Harrison Barnes). That's front office malpractice but you can only move forward.