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Of course, without knowing what deals were available, we can't say what he did or didn't blew.
But you can't really convince me that the team is better off now, than it was 48 hours ago.... i.e that we are better with Wally Szczerbiak (who expires and leaves at the end of the year), than we would be with some of the long term pieces who had been mentioned over the past few months (whether it was Amare, RJ, VC, Gforce, Camby, Salmons, Shaq, etc.) I would have even thought that taking a bad contract and a high draft pick or developing prospect, would have put us in a much better position to pick up a Bosh/Amare type in a trade next year.
Maybe none of these deals ever materialized, and maybe Ferry never had a choice....but that doesn't change the fact that from a fans perspective it's damn disappointing. Without knowing what deals were available, it looks like we've missed an opportunity.
~Lyuokdea
And that sums it up ..out of frustration we might want to play the blame game ...but the fact is WE DID have an opportunity to possibly help our team out with this expiring contract, and we weren't able to. That's dissapointing as HELL to me, to Ferry, to every fan out there.
But, that's just the way things fall sometimes. He was on the phone trying to make some kind of deal almost every waking hour the last four days. You don't have Mo Williams type outcomes to trades every time you step to the plate as a GM. Standing pat beats making a deal that blows uop in our face, that's always another way to look at it.
A person is saying Ferry gambled with the asset, he could have traded him for something earler on in the process, but didn't because he gambled that he could get more later .......every decision he makes is a calculated risk, and gamble. That's the nature of the beast. Does a GM sometimes turn down a trade option, in hopes that he may have a better option down the road ...all the time. Did it happen during this trade period just concluded ?
Honestly, no deal I've head of didn't come with some stipulation that turned us away. I went into today saying that, of the talks we had going on ...either the teams we were dealing with needed to concede on their stances that they had taken up til now, or we would have to. If they or we didn't, then no deal would get made. And from what I know, that's exactly what ended up happening. We never found a match, and yes ...I'm really dissapointed. But, doesn't mean I'm dissapointed in Ferry, just that we couldn't find the match.
I seriously hope we can find a vet big via free agency. If we could it would make me feel much much better than I do now.
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