When Following The Plan Becomes Reinventing The Wheel

…and a dollar short. Not only is there insufficient talent, there is no sustained player development. Lose-lose.

falls on The Ides of March?

If Ernie is Caesar, then who will be his Brutus? And what Anthony (not Melo, probably Greg) will deliver the funeral oration?.

But Ernie is not Caesar by a long shot. So perhaps he will avoid the Emperor’s fate.

There will, I think, be deals. But will they be sound and fury, signifying nothing? Or will Ernie channel Prospero and lead us into a Brave New World?

Get busy Ernie, this team needs help now. Get some value for JaVale in particular, if possible. Cut Mason and Evans and replace them with some D-League energy. Then sort out the potential in the players that remain and focus your options regarding who to choose in the Draft and go after in Free Agency.

I’d rather Ted focus on who will be his new GM after he lets Ernie go. Ernie’s had three lottery picks in a row and all he’s got to show for it is Wall and a long-term project in Vesely. And let’s not even go into Ernie’s decisions to re-sign Blatche and a severely injured Arenas to mega-buck long-term contracts. If Ted lets Ernie select our fourth lottery pick in four years, then he should resign himself to becoming a permanent visitor to Stern’s bouncing ball ceremony.

We can amnesty/buy out Lewis and sign a max player. And we will have a high draft pick. And we can sign someone for the MLE. We can let McGee walk and sign someone for the same amount of money (Hibbert?) we would have had to pay him. We can let Young walk and do the same. We can amnesty Blatche if we buy out Lewis.

We can get better next year. If we do it right we can be a lot better next year. This year we’re stuck with what we have, and it would be a major mistake to to trade away the flexibility we have for a few measly wins in a meaningless season.

exactly…we have 8 players 24 and under (not counting H)…Lewis, Young and Blatche will be gone sometime in the next year. Our young players are gaining experience and showing heart. We will make some trades and draft some players… I still trust EG…These next 20 games need to be played with consistency and in the last 22 games we need to see growth…next year we’ll have one new starter from free agency and one from the draft (two from the draft if we trade McGee for a pick)…TRADE McGEE

The clippers completely cleaned house when the drafted Blake Griffin. I believe the only player left from before Blake is Jordan. They traded for and signed pieces that fit perfectly for Griffin and all of those pieces are guys that are either used to winning or very competitive. Theres nobody on that team left that remembers the Clipper curse and now they are a possible contender.

We should have pieces to make a deal if you consider Young, Vesely, and possibly Tyrus Thomas (if we do that Blatche deal). Let them dump Wes Johnson and their least desirable center between Niko, Darko and Miller.

I was worried about getting Williams and then having to pass on PF in the draft, but thats only a problem if we get the top pick. We would just have to take the position that we draft Barnes, Drummond, MKG, Lamb, or Beal. We’d only be ruling out Perry, Sully, and Thomas Robinson. All three of those PFs have a major question mark. The only predicament is if we get Anthony Davis and thats a good problem.

I’d love to see us move McGee, Young, and Blatche to position ourselves for a core of Wall, Barnes, and Derrick Williams and the cap space to make a run at Bynum in 2013. For the Wolves, they get a talented starting center and possibly SG as well on a team where the pecking order is much more established so that they can play specific roles.

that it was an anomaly in the earths min phase of the x wave of Chandlers wobble that actually built the team. 2001 was the end of a 7 year solar cycle. 2005 saw a major shift in magnetic pole tracking the Earths axis. The relative motion of the earths axis stopped in 2006. A year later Arenas’ career is over. Now BNIE mentions volcanos,so I assume he is talking about team building. 2006-2008 saw a big increase in volcanism and the end of Arenas’ career. 2014 should be an the end of another solar cycle and when the team is expected to be competitive again. Right on schedule.
Now, with our own Sagitterius galaxy colliding with Milky Ways dark rift leading to the sun to reaching a solar maximum, the strongest in 26000 years, will the 2012 draft class be sucked in to a black hole?. Will the precession of planets from Gods gate to Mans gate bring back Jesus and how will that effect the team? Can the team play with energy and purpose on the other side of the galactic equator? Or, with the end of the precessional wobble mean the team will play flat? Does Teds plan take in to account a 5th state of consciousness this year or the Great Spirits 3rd shaking? What does he plan to do when the rattlesnake constellation springs feathers, hands and feet? Make trades? Sign FAs.? Lots of unanswered questions. And does the organization even have a plan for when the earths north axis points to Vega instead of Polaris?

If he makes a trade just to try and keep his job, that’s not good for us. Like trading Blatche for Thomas when we would probably be better off amnestying Blatche over the summer.

I am all for trades at the deadline, because teams get desperate. But the key is to not be the desperate one.

As for midseason trades, outside of Wall, I can’t see anyone on our roster being that desirable except McGee or Lewis (for his potential salary buyout).

I’d rather we save our assets for a draft day trade to try and move up with a second pick in the top 12, if possible. I still think this draft is going to be better overall with lottery talent than the last 2 or maybe even last three combined.