re: Monty Williams

Our team is fighting, but that has more to do with the pride of select few players than the coaching. Don't get me wrong I like Monty but it's hard to justify his rotations.

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i'd take Collison every day of the week over Jack... and it sure would be nice to be able to sit Paul with a lead and actually be able to protect it/add to it....

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You are a moron. We got rid of Posey in that deal also and brought in Ariza.

Ariza has done a great job guarding Kobe and has some really great offensive games also.

Also guys like Thornton and Collison wouldn't really close the gap on our real disadvantages in this series.

The biggest problem in the series is really guarding Artest as we don't have anybody to really guard him outside of Ariza (already guarding Kobe). Then it seems Okafor can't rebound for shite or guard the bigs in this series.

Both Thornton and Collison are undersized and wouldn't necessarily be much more reliable than what we got.

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Collison

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You are not thinking this through.

First Collison is better than Jack but only a little. Slightly above average starter vs slightly below average starter. Second, Collison is too small to play in the back court with CP3, Jack isn't. Therefore Jack can play 20+ minutes per game as your 6th man while Collison's talent wastes away in 10 - 15 mpg behind CP3.

Second, Peja, Juju, Posey, QPon. This offseason I was predicting QPon would be the starter by the trade deadline. Not because I thought he was really good, but because he had jack shite in front of him. This team NEEDED a starting SF in the worst way and Ariza has been pretty good despite his frustrating offense. In a perfect world Demps gets hired 2 months earlier, signs Dorrell Wright and you either keeps Collison or get better value for him, but this world ain't perfect.

Finally, if you are one of those people that think we should have rebuilt around DC and MT5 and traded CP3, that just wasn't ever a possibility for business reasons. It took a playoff team lead by a superstar to barely meet attendance bench marks and keep the vultures away. Rebuilding is not an option until a new local owner is in charge.