Shakes wrote:
People will probably hate the idea, but I'd love to trade Rose while he still has "potential superstar" value, if he finishes the season averaging 15/5 with 3 TO and 50% TS I think our chances will be gone to get any value for him.
We should have traded Rose this summer, and then re-signed Ben Gordon imo. That wasn't quite my opinion in the offseason (which was keep Rose, re-sign Gordon), but it is becoming somewhat clear that is the right idea.
Although I would have to wonder what the team would look like if we had re-signed Ben Gordon and used the MLE on Charlie Villanueva (LOL at the idea of JR using the MLE to improve our team, while pushing us even deeper in to the luxury tax).
Then we would have had:
PG-Derrick Rose/Kirk Hinrich
SG-Ben Gordon/John Salmons/Kirk Hinrich
SF-Luol Deng/John Salmons
PF-Charlie Villanueva/Tyrus Thomas
C- Joakim Noah/Brad Miller
We would have had a big front court, and plenty of depth. We would have had Brad Miller, Tyrus Thomas, Jerome James' expiring contracts to leverage at the trade deadline to add more talent to our team.