and to alesser extent bosh but mostly colangelo's comments
http://blogs.thescore.com/tbj/2010/0...tball+Jones%29
Now, maybe I just feel the need to have a little state of the union ’cause I’m headed to the cottage this weekend, and that’s what people do out on the dock, contemplate-your-life time. Bryan contemplated Bosh’s Raptor career in his sorry rant and said CB4 was hard to build around: “We tried in vain to put pieces around Chris. Different pieces, different styles. It didn’t work out.”
You didn’t build around Bosh, Bryan, you built behind him. Every man you acquired to join that roster was not even close to Bosh’s level; they were inferior. Who was the best player Bosh ever played with? T.J. Ford? Jose Calderon? Jermaine O’Neal? I love the games of an Anthony Parker, Jorge Garbajosa, and Carlos Delfino as much as the next guy, but they took this team as high as they could in that 47-win, division championship triumph. (OK, maybe the team wins a playoff series if Garbo didn’t break his leg. Who knows?) But with the first overall pick in team history in ‘06 you drafted a player who plays the same position, rebounds less than Bosh, and pretended to masquerade him as a center — Andrea Bargnani. Every coach was forced to play your prized possession alongside your best player, but he couldn’t truly compliment his skill set. Even the casual fan can see that you don’t put the slight player who doesn’t play big beside the other slight player who doesn’t play big.
You didn’t build around Bosh, Bryan, you built behind him. Every man you acquired to join that roster was not even close to Bosh’s level; they were inferior. Who was the best player Bosh ever played with? T.J. Ford? Jose Calderon? Jermaine O’Neal? I love the games of an Anthony Parker, Jorge Garbajosa, and Carlos Delfino as much as the next guy, but they took this team as high as they could in that 47-win, division championship triumph. (OK, maybe the team wins a playoff series if Garbo didn’t break his leg. Who knows?) But with the first overall pick in team history in ‘06 you drafted a player who plays the same position, rebounds less than Bosh, and pretended to masquerade him as a center — Andrea Bargnani. Every coach was forced to play your prized possession alongside your best player, but he couldn’t truly compliment his skill set. Even the casual fan can see that you don’t put the slight player who doesn’t play big beside the other slight player who doesn’t play big.
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