Altman send 3 picks and Exum for Allen who was just slightly over 10 pts /game center.So that was not “nothing” at all and he paid exactly what Allen was worth at the moment.For Mitchell ,we send 5 picks and 3 guys,including Lauri,who is not that far from Mitchell production + our top picks in form of Agbaji and Sexton.And its also the same manager who let James leaving us for nothing ,gave up Irving for just one pick and number of useless injury-prone players,same guy who selected Okoro,and the same guy who offered Love an atrocious contract no one else in their right mind would offer and brought bunch of incompetent coaches during these 5 years.Did I forget something?
The Cavs traded like the 28th pick and the lesser of a 2024 Utah or Cleveland 2nd rounder and Exum who is nothing more than a contact for Allen and Taurean Prince who he flipped for Rubio
Loves contract hasn’t hurt us at all since he signed it now he’s a valuable 6th man.
You missed him drafting Garland 5th who’s a bonafide star guard despite playing 5 games in college.
Coaches? Ty Lue turned into Beilein who was Dans guy and then Bickerstaff who is a great rebuilding coach…even if I don’t think he’s the long term answer for competing.
We sent 3 picks for Mitchell, not 5.
Let James leave us for nothing? What did you expect him to do exactly? Trade prime LeBron James who was taking us to the finals every year?
Even the Kyrie trade, Boston got even less than we did and it turns out Kyrie is an unreliable joke.
Maybe we should have tried harder to get Middleton and Brogdon and a pick but we were one Dinwiddie prayer away from landing Luka Doncic. LeBron was leaving regardless. Middleton and Brogdon weren’t enough to compete with the Durant Warriors. I’m ultimately happier we got what we did because being a treadmill team With mediocre 33 win talent for those years…maybe we don’t have Garland and Mobley right now.
Anyone who can put together a full rebuild like this within 5 years is a talented GM. Doesn’t mean he’s infallible but even the best GMs miss lottery picks especially in bad drafts which the Okoro draft was. But Garland at 5 which was not a consensus pick at all…lots of Culver fans that year…is a grand slam of epic proportions. Mobley was a given, but then again the Rockets missed the given for another chucker guard who doesn’t defend.
Mitchell has proven how good and how valuable he is already. Markannen is the loss that hurts the most mainly because we could use him at the 3 something fierce. But I’d still rather have Mitchell and I do expect Lauri and the Jazz to come back to earth at some point. They’ll have a really tough 10 game stretch and it’ll snowball.
