Seeing how well Mike is playing this year how bad Beno struggles as a starting pg make me question the value of the trade...
I'm happy that Mike is playing well in Atlanta, but I'm even more happy that he is out of Sacramento. I'll admit that I wasn't too pleased with what we got from Bibby as we wasted our pick, and our 'kid' has not panned out.
With that said, trading Mike was the first sign that we were actually going to begin making moves for our future, and for that reason alone it was a good trade.
While I agree that Beno's play has been disappointing. With that said he is still young, his contract isn't obscene, and I think the hope should be that he makes a quality back-up off the bench, or a decent trading piece 2+ years from now. We'll see....and at least his inconsistent play is helping our draft position a bit.
The one really good thing about his play has been this:
It's clear that he isn't going to be the starting piece we need when we start to compete at an elite level. So Petrie should be looking towards finding an elite point-guard for our future. Now, if Beno were playing really well, or hinting at being more than he is, it could end up being fool's gold and we could of found ourselves in a position in relying too much on him for our future.
So, hopefully Petrie knows that Beno isn't going to be our answer there and makes moves accordingly.
And that is another reason why trading Bibby was so important. If he had stayed and ended up having a good close to last year and a great year this year, we might be tempted to continue on with him when we should have been looking to find a younger PG to groom for our future team.