re: Dell Demps

This thread has epic amounts of fail in it:

1) Wanting to keep Okafor/Ariza should get you banned. Let's pay an aging, average, unathletic C 14mil and a SF that can't even see court time for the WASHINGTON WIZARDS 7mil.

2) People bagging on Jack cause he doesn't start is foolish. He finishes every game and plays 30+ minutes most nights.

3) Monty Williams admitted that they let Jack go as a courtesy to Jack. They knew that Captain Jack wasn't in their long term plans and was going to have hard time seeing minutes this season (expecting EG10 to be healthy at the time and knowing that we'd be playing youth to evaluate them) and let him move on for his sake, especially being a contract year.

4) Though Anderson is slumping lately, we gave up peanuts in a S&T and he is one of our most valuable assets still because of his contract.

5) The Lopez signing was an experiment as we have team options in years 2,3. again, he's still a tradable asset, just read the boards. When Gasol for Anderson bullcrap was being thrown around, the Lakers fans actually wanted us to throw in Lopez and/or Vasquez to sweeten the pot.

6) Vasquez could likely fetch us a 1st round pick in this year's draft. Q-Pon would be lucky to fetch a high 2nd.

7) Jason Smith/Willie Green for Songalia/Brackins, enough said.

8) Scouting overseas to find the likes of Brian Roberts / Gustavo Ayon.

9) The Marcus Thornton thing was a disaster of epic proportions. However, the blame could hardly be laid at the feet of Dell Demps. Monty Williams essentially buried an asset that should have fetched us back legitimate assets in return on the bench and killed his trade value. Not only did he bury him, we didn't have Tyreke Evans playing in front of him, we had Marco freaking Belinelli and Willie Green. Don't think I'll ever understand the handling of that situation.

10) There was definitely two bad moves though by Demps. The first was Collison for Ariza. How you have a young asset like DC coming off the year he had and all you can end up with is Trevor Ariza is beyond me. That first CP3 trade with the Rockets/Lakers was god-awful. Even with the EG10 drama to deal with, it's STILL better than that first package.

Bottom line: Dell Demps has managed to rebuild a terrible situation way ahead of schedule and caught a few breaks along the way. We suddenly have cap space and another high lottery pick with loads of young talent instead of an aging/overpaid roster. You are downright crazy if you don't think that at least 20 of the 30 NBA teams would steal this dude from us right now if they could.