So we're allowed to use pure hindsight when it's in Griffin's favor, but not when it puts a move in a bad light?
We can't judge the Korver trade based on what will happen, but dammit, we can judge the Dunleavy and Williams moves based on who they managed to salvage from those moves after the fact!
Come on. That's not a good argument. Particularly Birdman. I can point to a goofball center, playing for the minimum in Golden State, giving them valuable minutes, that could have also landed that same pick if need be, or, better yet, not been traded at all because he's producing for cheap.
Griffin has been good. But he wasn't flawless this off-season. It's one thing to rely on an old vet or two, but when you make that a staple of your bench? LeBron had a point. That could have been Michael Beasley or JaVale McGee, someone who isn't way past their primes. So having a bench that consisted of James Jones, Mo Williams, Birdman, Richard Jefferson, and Channing Frye......that's just too damn old.
He's trying to rectify that problem, and he's done a good job to this point. But he helped create that problem.
Again, overall, he's been good. His trades have been excellent. But there needed to be a point this off-season where he stopped and looked at the bench and said "no, we're getting too old," and instead signed some younger minimum players instead of rounding out the roster with Birdman.
(Also not a fan of the Richard Jefferson contract, but I get why they did it. Almost impossible to get away from with the way he played in the FInals...but he's probably not gonna be contributing in two years while still under contract).