the folly was

[gene kirkpatrick <gk_tyler@xxxxxxxxx>]

the flaw in the scheme was in the poor coordination between gm and coach.  If we were going to auction off our #1 choices for cap room or veterans, we should have followed the pattern we set with Joe Johnson.  That is, play the rook and increase his value.  We sorta did that with him, then benched him and put a dead fish label on him and got very little for him.  We didn't try to see what we had in Forte.  By slotting him for six minutes a game we could have found out what we had and decided whether to keep him or not.  As it turned out, he seems to have excellent all around skills, beyond S. Williams in my estimation, and we should have either kept him or gotten more for him.  But with two more #1s next year, we might just keep on sacrificing our babies to the cap gods.  What a system!

Does this mean we will sign Songaila and throw him into a trade next year for Shawn Kemp?  A little humor there.  It's not Baker and Williams that bother me, just as adding Rogers and Delk was ok for what they were--it's that we give away too much to teams that are desperate to rid themselves of baggage.  Does it strike you as strange that we traded the two picks who were the all around ballplayers and kept Kedrick, the athlete, who needs even more development time than either of the Joes?  Cheers.  Gene
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