Laughable post in my opinion as you give absolutely no credit to Petrie....none. He builds the team to championship caliber. The Webber injury must have been Petrie's fault. Underestimating the impact of the injury. Anyone could have picked KMart? Oh....ok.
I didn't claim that anyone could have picked Kevin Martin...
My post is a quick summary of the decline we've experienced in the past four years. If you want to see me singing Petrie's praises, check the archives; as I said, I was as big a Petrie supporter as anyone else.
I've been looking at this from the standpoint of "why aren't we getting any better," and the post that I quoted originally opened my eyes to what the real question should be: Why are we continually getting worse? When you have a GM who has shown the ability to build a championship contender from the ground up, you have to wonder why, every year since 2002, we've won fewer and fewer games, to the point where we struggled to win 30 games last year. This year doesn't look any better. Why can't Petrie bring in players that will help the team, that will make us better?
And the reason that last question is so key, in my opinion, isn't because we're not getting better. It's because we're consistently getting worse. No new talent, no moves to lessen the salary cap bind we're in, nothing to give evidence of competence or give a reason to hope. Instead, we bring in John Salmons and Mikki Moore. Nothing wrong with those players, but nothing right with them, either. They don't make us better, now or in the future, and we sign them to bigger and longer contracts than any "rebuilding" team should ever be signing middling-at-best players to. Can't hide behind the excuse that the owners have decided not to spend any money at all, because over the past two years, over $40 million worth of contracts have been given to two players that have done nothing to help the team.
So, instead of continuing to "drink from the trough", I am no longer an unconditional Geoff Petrie supporter. Never will be again. Doesn't mean I don't support him. In fact, I made consideration in my earlier post for the fact that the Maloofs have definitely stood in Petrie's way, to a certain extent, as they are no longer signing $80 million payroll checks, like money is no object. However, that excuse doesn't fly when you ask the question I asked before: "Why are we continually getting worse?" Why can't this great GM who built a championship-caliber team at least keep us at or above 40-45 wins a season?
That is the question that is not answered simply by singing Petrie's praises based on the team he built six or seven years ago. That is a "what have you done for me lately" question, and it's a fair question to ask because Petrie hasn't done anything lately to make us better.
