Originally Posted by Buckeyes#1

Well boys. Hate to be negative but I am disappointed. I may be in the minority with this view but I think we probably lost this ship to the Spurs by doing nothing about this trade deadline. We love our little fellas too much to part with them. To get a Gasol, Bibby, etc, you have to be willing to give up something. I think a trade would have helped both teams. The other team could start over and we could have our ship. Instead, we didn't learn from our previous last few years and now we are destined to repeat the same mistake. We are heading into the playoffs again with a great starting five and a bench full of inexperienced babes. We could have had another seasoned vet or two and we would be having another ship this year. This is the one area where I would have to disagree with Dumars. He's a great GM. I just wish he would have learned from our ship three years ago when we had a deep bench. Even Dumars admitted we ran out of gas last year. Rip already looks tanked. Again, we are stuck with many guys still cutting their teeth going up against some seasoned warriors. We should have played our youngsters more minutes to increase their trade value. Then we clean house by stealing a seasoned vet some poor desperate team is trying to unload. Man. Almost another championship.