monsterpile wrote:I always like to remind people of how teams end up trading away or letting go of guys that ended up being really useful players and if they had just stuck with the guys they had and added to them they would have had a nice team. My favorite example is the post Jordan Bulls.
Starting with Elton Brand's rookie year and going a couple years later here are guys they added to the roster during that time that they could have kept
Elton Brand
Brad Miller
Ron Artest
Bruce Bowen
Fred Hoiberg
Jamal Crawford
Trenton Hassel
Now is that a championship level team assuming all those guys turned out as good for the Bulls as they did for other teams? Probably not but thats a pretty nice collection of players to add to.
Consider all the wing players many that have been mentioned in this and other threads that were accused for little or signed for very little or pretty reasonable deals before they broke out some of them did it this year.
Tobias Harris
Jae Crowder
Aminu
D Carroll (I remember Lip wanted him very bad when he signed with Atlanta)
Kent Bazemore (more of a SG/SF)
Those are all guys team acquired in the last 5 years and their may be others I have forgotten. It's time the Wolves find their hidden gem of not on the wing somewhere.
monsterpile wrote:I always like to remind people of how teams end up trading away or letting go of guys that ended up being really useful players and if they had just stuck with the guys they had and added to them they would have had a nice team. My favorite example is the post Jordan Bulls.
Starting with Elton Brand's rookie year and going a couple years later here are guys they added to the roster during that time that they could have kept
Elton Brand
Brad Miller
Ron Artest
Bruce Bowen
Fred Hoiberg
Jamal Crawford
Trenton Hassel
Now is that a championship level team assuming all those guys turned out as good for the Bulls as they did for other teams? Probably not but thats a pretty nice collection of players to add to.
Consider all the wing players many that have been mentioned in this and other threads that were accused for little or signed for very little or pretty reasonable deals before they broke out some of them did it this year.
Tobias Harris
Jae Crowder
Aminu
D Carroll (I remember Lip wanted him very bad when he signed with Atlanta)
Kent Bazemore (more of a SG/SF)
Those are all guys team acquired in the last 5 years and their may be others I have forgotten. It's time the Wolves find their hidden gem of not on the wing somewhere.
