No, at a certain point you don't need those guys. In fact they are disruptive. You need your stars to be those guys. But once you have those in place, and we do, then what you need are Derek Fishers, Robert Horrys, Udonis Haslems, PJ Browns, Bruce Bowens and a host of other people who understand their role, execute it, and stay out of the way of the stars.
Before Cousins began to come into his own, and before we picked up Thornton, we were holding open auditions for main weapons #2 and #3. Now I felt that Westphal missed that early, made it difficult for our SFs to be those guys. But regardless, they failed to show that stuff. Nobody stepped forward. And then Cousins came on, and Thronton arrived, and that opportunity is now closed. We no longer need them to step forward. That portion of the rebuild has been completed. We found our guns. Now we are onto the "surround them with strong roleplayers" stage. Dalembert is a strong roleplayer. Beno and JT may be strong enough roleplayers. Cisco and Donte are at least willing roleplayers. But Omri is now an odd man out. He wasn't able to step forward in the role he coveted and where it was hoped he might fill in -- as weapon #2 or #3, and by neither game nor mentality is he particularly well suited to the roles we need now, as a defend/move the ball/spot shoot roleplayer.
