Stop it. Just stop it. It's getting harder and harder to believe you when you said you are not a hater. You want GP to trade for Chandler/Okafor? How? What do we have to offer that would even put us in the ballpark? You may as well blame Petrie for not getting Chris Bosh.
Patience, my son, patience. Not just being patient for this summer, but patience is needed for the next 2-3 years.
If I am a "hater" does that make you a "lover"? Because that is exactly what your posts on Geoff sound like -- still stuck in that wonderful infatuation phase where the lover can do no wrong, where there is always an excuse, where the most disgusting habit is "cute", and when he/she passes gas it smells like petunias. Unfortunately that infatuation period inevitably ends, and that's when you roll over and discover your lover has more warts than teeth and more hair on their back than the cat.
The "Geoff has a plan/has it all under control" line of argument died out years ago. I'm not sure how much of a push toward revisionist history there seriously is at this point, but if there is any, its ridiculous after one of the worst prolonged falls from grace in NBA history. We tie an NBA record for consecutive years of declining wins, then after our big bounceback year of 38 wins follow it up with a league worst 17 (one of the worst records of the decade).
The only thing keeping hope alive for Geoff as anything but incompetent had been the tendency/suspicion that maybe we can blame some of the disaster on others-- the owners make good targets. So fine, you can float that along while they continue to meddle. But now, with the owners publicly saying they will no longer meddle, with a rebuild in apparent full force half a decade later, now those excuses are gone. Now you have a GM who has presided over one of the worst stretches for any team in the whole league, and he has apparent carte blanche to operate. So now we see what's what -- for all the incessant exuses made for Geoff sitting on his hands, the only truly successful period of his entire career was when he precisely did not -- he was very active and aggressive when he built his old rep. So now we see. And we do it with the GM heading into the last year of his contract, the team coming off a league worst record and league worst attendance, a looming arena issue, and money woes. Even teflon wears off eventually, and when the owners begin to figure out that's not petunias they are smelling...
Thsi move, or non-move, is no more significant than any single non-move. But when we're working on the better part of a decade with a similar pattern, you note it and shake your head.
