TDL Archived: The 2nd Rnd Pick Yankee Swap

[Jason Terry]

totally agree with this, in general.

I think one of the failures of the season will be that they didn't focus on preparing to play Wood for solo 5 stretches against good teams, if in fact they determine they can't do that in the playoffs. It is the biggest way to use him to your advantage, by far, provided you've trained him not to get you killed on defense in time.

Plenty of motivation for Wood to figure it out. He could lose a lot of $ if he poops the bed. I think we get the best he’s got. It’s mostly a win-win. If he doesn’t perform as needed he probably is incapable and we smartly don’t pay him. If he figures it all out then we have a high quality talent for the championship run

Yes, if he figures it all out he’s gone for nothing. But it was the smart move if nobody valued Wood or Hardaway enough for us to make a deal for an upgrade. The buyout guys were mostly what we could have hoped for and we will get them anyway