Sorry, Petrie/Maloof, since we all know that Maloofs are putting their hands all over this kind of crap. Like all the other trades, this one is financially driven.
What's wrong with that?
Sometimes I think fans get the impression that they should just be able to snap their fingers and get whatever they want at the trade deadline. People here have wanted Granger (not moving), Batum (so not moving he nearly killed the Gerald Wallace trade), O.J. Mayo (not moving), Tayshaun Prince (not moving), Gerald Wallace (cost two first-round picks). Aaron Brooks cost Goran Dragic and a first-round pick. Battier cost Thabeet and a first-round pick. Heck, even Kirk Hinrich cost a young player (Jordan Crawford) and a first-round pick.
Prices were high because the teams dealing are looking for help now. We don't really have a lot to spend that doesn't look like an integral part of the future. We can't afford to send an Evans, a Cousins, a Casspi, or even a Dalembert off for a guy like Brooks or Hinrich or Battier, right? And we certainly can't afford to send a first-round pick. Nobody useful was getting sold cheap, so we made a couple of small moves, one clearly financial (I think it's hard to classify the Landry/Thornton deal as financial, as he might be useful and it necessitated us picking up salary somewhere else). And we stay in position to make a big splash in the FA market this summer.
I just don't see why there are complaints here. Nobody handed us a pot of gold - but we shouldn't have expected that anyway.