Not a chance in hell. Yes, some fans did like it and some experts liked it but many of us here did NOT like it and it sure seemed to me like most experts questioned it too. The experts disagreed not so much with the acquisition but the cost.
I think the board was pretty split 50/50 on that deal.
It definitely wasn’t 90% for it on this board. More like 50/50 with vociferous opinions both ways. But I think you’re misremembering most experts said it lifted us from being an afterthought at 30-26 to a legit Title Contender. And that bore out in Vegas too not only that season but even going into the next one where I believe we still had the fourth best odds to win the title.
Yeah, I have no idea of the breakdown but no way was it anywhere close to "everyone" or "90%". The loudest voices here were decidedly against it but we were probably in the minority, though not by much IMO.
I thought the really strong opinions came mostly from those set against the deal and that most of the pro-KD opinions were more of the "we need to do something, glad to see we took the gamble, any gamble" and I wouldn't say those posters were particularly in love with the trade - they recognized it was a big risk but felt it was worth it.
Well, I'd say the Haliburton issue was easily 90% especially if you consider those of us that only gave the organization a pass when the story was all about him refusing to play for us - once that story started looking weak I think it was as close to 100% as you can get. Also, although some of us have since changed our minds on it, the Ayton exit was also close to unanimous here.
Yeah I hate this idea that we had to do it because we had to do something. Some of us despised the trade because it was ridiculously one-sided. Accepting we needed to make changes is one thing, making the dumbest possible decision is another and that's what some of us believed was happening.
Welcome to you too, apparently you skipped all the posts here when the trade went down. There were several of us convinced it would be one of the worst moves any team has ever made. And we talked about it a lot with several of us on record repeating (over and over again) that same prediction of doom. Trading for KD was a questionable move and including Bridges made it even worse but then, to not protect the picks? That's just inexcusable.
