Grade the season

[GoGoGadget]

Since we seem unable to trade him, him not getting time is the next best thing.

Oh, I agree with that part, don't get me wrong. I just don't know that I would be able to count the overall situation on a list of positives.

 

[fnordius]

I've seen this brought up as a positive a few times, and I'm assuming it's done with tongue firmly in cheek, but I still don't get it. Having that big of a contract being completely wasted, especially since it's all going to one of those flexible pieces we picked up in exchange for the closest thing to a superstar this franchise has ever had, is not particularly positive to me even in jest.

I chalked up KT's contract as retroactively dropping the FO's grade for the year of the Webber trade, and a little more in every year that we've held on to him. This year, all of our contract hell (Mikki excepted) was already in place, and I considered it to be the status quo. KT continues to drain money and take up valuable roster space, so most of the damage lives on, but at least he is no longer a liability on the court, and we don't have to watch him out there scowling, blowing easy layups, turning the ball over, and airballing FTs. My list of things which were absolutely good was vanishingly short, so I settled for a relative good.

But the fact that I still gave a D should show that I don't consider a minor aesthetic improvement to be any substitute for actual rebuilding or player development.

 

[AriesMar27]

the season wasnt as bad as i thought it was going to be but it still wasnt very good...

we still have artest, thomas and reef... then we added moore. bibbys gone but i didnt want him to leave. salmons was cool but we still have artest and garcia played well... ive never looked forward to the offseason more than i do this season. last year i wanted muss gone more than any roster changes... that and to let the youngsters get some playing time but that didnt really happen...

i pray that they just blow this team up... i dont care who gets added as a sweetener... be it hawes, garica or douby... trade artest and thomas to the knicks for marbury... then trade hawes and williams to the bulls for ty thomas and fillers... just do something with all of these players... create an identity of some sort...

 

[Kingster]

GRADE -- D

Positives: Martin, Garcia and Hawes improved. Hawes looks like he could have been a steal in the draft. Trading Bibby. Benching KT. Theus, but his comments about Martin really has hurt his grade with me.

Negatives - Artest; Miki Moore (why?); not trading Miller and/or Salmons. Ending up with the worst of all worlds - not making the playoffs and getting a lousy draft pick for your trouble; Petrie - every day he can't/won't trade vets to get young studs he's losing credibility with me.

 

[kupman]

Kind of interesting that the Bee went with a B-. It's where most people on this board think the grade should placed. I went with a B+ after struggling between a B and a B+. I think I was just in a good mood when I finally decided.

All in all, I thought the season went pretty well considering where we started. I was not sure that we would win more than 25 games all season in the first 2 weeks of the season. Plus, I am not sure how many games we had when our starting PG was out of the line-up hurt, but it was a lot. we did pretty well despite this.