THE CRUCIFIX: Cato: Wood isn't thrilled w/ his role...Will depart in the summer

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Pretty sure all the scrubs were expiring this season, too. Just seems like another miscalculation, where they did not value the 1st round pick and instead made a short-sighted decision (with no long-term strategy behind the trade as usual) and will have nothing to show for it in the end. Houston obviously jumped on it. As we learned now, that you cannot give away Wood, if you tried. We paid a 1st round pick for it.

....and the truly bizarre part is that they already knew Wood PERSONALLY from WORKING WITH HIM. Just like they knew McGee. Imagine you are being such a trash evaluator that you worked with a person for months and still can´t judge their personality and talent properly. Most people can fake 2-3 interviews to get hired, but nobody can fake months of work ethic and personality.

EDIT: Real reason for the trade was probably that they tried to take some heat of the in-coming Brunson departure: "Yeah we lost Brunson, but we gained Wood"  and if Brunson had flopped in New York, they sure have let you know about it. How they decided to let him walk and he was never any good, which was pretty much the immediate response of the Mavs fanatics wanking themselves into Bolivia over McGee´s three year contract. Too bad Brunson turned into a 26 year old All-Star.

One of my biggest issues with the new front office is the lack of creativity in most of their moves.    That may be unfair after such a big trade, but taking each FA signing, trade, two way move separately, most of them leave me feeling  .   

I look at Morey in Philly and while he is not perfect, I look at most of his moves and see a vision or creativity.    Besides the Hardy move, I really can't think of a move that have given me this feeling.   Look at a lot of our moves and would you think that is a move Morey, Ainge, or the other top front offices would make?  They all have egg on their face in some moves, but the Mavs haven't inspired a lot of confidence to me.