DocHolliday said:
Did I say pin the whole team on Peja. NO. I say the team will be just that...A TEAM. Us here in Sacramento are so used to pinning the team on ONE person we forgot what a TEAM IS. It's a bunch of people working together as equals. Bibby losing his running mate??? Are you kidding me. WEBBER CAN'T RUN THAT FAST. He is physically incapable. And this season may end in the 1st round...we may not make the playoffs who knows. But we will be MUCH MUCH better in the future for this trade.
It had to happen sometime. WE all knew he was gonna go soon. If not this year..next or definitely at the end of next. Let me let you in on something the maloofs and petrie saw aleady, THE KINGS WERE NOT GONNA GO FAR OR WIN A CHAMPIONSHIP ALREADY!! With or without Chris. This is a move for the future. It will help us.
I did mean running mate litterally, come on now, I'm heart broken, not blind
. I meant Chris was Mike's partner in crime. Webb-Bibby pick and roll was practically the Kings bread and butter. Can Brad do that now, sure. But like I also said I see his job getting a whole lot harder.
All of this may not mean giving the team to Peja, who knows he still may want out, but right now it sure seems like that right now.
Fact, Chris might not ever play better than he is right now-post surgery...but to give it all up now. I might even have accepted it in the summer, but now! And for what we got in return!
Chris was the face of the franchise....to a lot of people in Sacramento and without a doubt to everyone outside of it.