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The problem with second guessing things that happend years ago, is that you can never be sure that everything else would have worked out just the way it did. Lets say the Spurs do draft Howard and he turns out to be a bust for the Spurs. Players succeed not only because of their talent, but because of the situations they are placed in. So it is absolutely stupid to go back and think about what you could have had.
I'm one of the bigger Rose fans in this forum and everyone knows I think Nazr is an absolutely ty basketball player. I think the trade was horrible, but I don't think by any means that if we hadn't made this trade it would have given us a championship or cost us one. There's just no way to tell. You can sit here and debate back and forth what may have happend or what we might do with those draft picks but the only facts are what actually happend. Everything else said in this thread is assumption or prediction.
This front office hasn't been perfect, but they've done far more good than bad. FAR MORE. We can argue for them to spend more, but the fact is that having a higher budget to work with isn't nessecarily something that will lead you to success. At some point you have to set a limit on what spending can occur in order to help with the decisions and I think the Spurs do a damn good job of doing that. So yeah, the trade was a mistake and it would have been better to get both Nazr and Kurt Thomas in here but whats done is done. Hopefully the front office can work some of their magic this offseason.
