I agree with a lot of what you say. I'm not sure I would go so far as to say PDA was making moves to win now. At least not in totality. I think he's more of an opportunist than anything else. And maybe that's not fair, but until he's willing to sit down with me and explain his plan, that's how it appears to me. The problem with being an opportunist, is that its like going to the store, seeing something on sale that's a great deal and buying it. Unfortunately, you don't need it. You bought it simply because it was a good deal. So when your all done, you end up with a cubboard full of the same product. Now that's an exaggeration, but in our case, were still a team of mismatched players that don't totally fit together.
This next offseason along with the draft should give us a good indication of what direction this team is headed in. While its true we don't have any capspace to work with, we will the following offseason. The minute we signed Cousins to that extension we did away with our capspace in the short term. So I'll reserve judgement until our next training camp. It will be interesting to watch how the IT situation works out. The question that everyone asks is whether IT is to be our starting PG of the future. Of course I have my answer, but I'm not sure how the Kings look at it. They've said many times that they see IT as a great 6th man. I happen to agree with that analysis. The question should be, can we win a championship with IT as the starting PG? How well you like him as a player is immaterial. Can we win a championship with him as our starter? If not, then he's not our starting PG of the future. Unless your content with just losing year after year in the playoffs. I'm not!
They didn't have much time to deal with the Tyreke situation, so like or hate the outcome, its somewhat understandable. But with IT, they've had plenty of time, so hopefully they get the outcome their looking for. I like the Gay trade, and if this was still the Petrie era, he would have gotten a A for that trade alone. The jury is still out on the Williams deal, but in general I like it. The problem I have with the team right now is, Gray, Landry, Acy, Evans, JT, and Cousins. That's 6 frontcourt players and you could even throw Williams into that group. If we were to draft another frontcourt player (Embiid, Vonleh, or Cauley-Stein) that would bring us to seven frontcourt players. Obviously something has to give. The offseason should be very interesting.
