Again, I’ve been told we’re looking to unearth star talent in unconventional ways. In the rare occasions this has happened for other teams in the past (e.g. FVV), one method of achieving it has been giving fringe roster spots to intriguing UDFAs and/or 2nd rounders.

That’s what we’d be doing if we were really looking to outsmart the competition in this sense. Ryan Arcidiacono is a zero upside proposition, even if it’s admittedly fun to hear Clyde go to war with his name.

We traded a pick that would’ve let us pick multiple good players for a pick that now seems at least 50/50 to become two seconds, traded that pick for an unremarkable player with 1.5 years left on his deal, then promptly advertised to the world that we didn’t hold said player in high regard.

I think the original sin was the single dumbest transaction of the bunch because it was so obviously stupid at the time, but it’s a mess from start to finish. There’s truly no need to defend any of it, just say we screwed up and you hope we’ll learn from it.

I suppose you can try the whole “don’t cry over spilled milk” thing, but that rings hollow. Keep in mind Leon Rose has chosen to build the team in a way that allows for basically no margin for error at all–I’m constantly told we’re looking for star players late in the draft, looking for diamonds in the rough, etc. If that’s truly what we’re hoping for, we really don’t get mulligans on this kind of transaction.

Cyber, Willy AND Juancho won MVPs. Juancho for the championship game, and Willy for the whole thing.

My bad. Thanks, Alan. And good for him, he seems like a nice kid. But until now he isn’t a good NBA player, let’s see if he can build on this prestigious accolade.

(Though I suppose you could look at Arcidiacono and Mykhailiuk as potential replacements for, respectively, Deuce and Cam as a point guard and a wing who are not expected to play. So maybe one or both are in trade talks?)

How the heck did these guys spend a quarter bil and not end up with the rights to any of Tolkien’s good stuff?

From what I’ve read, JRR Tolkien’s estate, which is run by his son, is a huge pain in the ass to deal with and basically refuses to license anymore material. Supposedly, he hated the LOTR movies so anything under his control is untouchable until it goes out of copyright.

Who cares which mistake in the series of mistakes was biggest? The whole situation was a mistake from the start and never should have happened.

really enjoyed the extra content, I can’t remember the books at all hardly, so the extra material really helped the story make sense…

How the heck did these guys spend a quarter bil and not end up with the rights to any of Tolkien’s good stuff?

Actually two seconds.