Blatche has played well, yes, and maybe he’ll turn out to be an NBA starter. But he hasn’t yet stepped it up again now that the league is actually scouting him, so there’s a question mark there too.

That’s what we have now, and it isn’t much.

Everybody knows Howard can play, but remember he has a reputation for trouble and he’s 30, on the down side of his career. He’s not someone to build around. He’ll be unrestricted as well.

I’d certainly like to keep Singleton — who wouldn’t? — but he’s unrestricted and will go where he pleases.

Livingston hasn’t shown that his leg will hold up to NBA minutes. It’s a long shot.

In other words, I don’t agree we have a core to build around: “a pretty good group of competent players to start with” as you put it. I think we have pretty close to nothing to start with.

Blatche and McGee are the two most valuable pieces — by far. If we lose enough games the rest of the year and pick 4th, we might get an impact player for next year — i.e. Cousins (if he is one). It’s a long shot; we might get Cole Aldrich instead (projected to be a good backup center in the league), someone like that.

It’ll take trades and free agents to reconstruct this team. But who do we have to trade? It would be *great* if we were able to trade Gilbert, allowing him and us to start over, but is that possible?

Can we attract a top-drawer FA to come to a team rebuilding from scratch? We could be in a for a long dry spell.

I’m actually pleased that we ended up with some useful pieces out of the “blow-up” of the team: Thornton and Ross and, hopefully, Singleton and Howard.

As to his smiling in Cleveland — wouldn’t you? He was lifted off a train wreck and might finally get a ring. You don’t think he has a right to be happy about that?

Nothing against Flip, this particular time, but I would like to see a new everything at this point. Even though we have some players that WE would like to keep, from the recent trades, I hope who/whomever is interested in buying this team is taking notes now, and has some ideas, as to what direction they would like to be going into, if they purchased the team. I want them to buy this team and hit the floor running, with their lunch in their briefcase, and implement that same kind of ethic into the team. I don’t know how the usual bottom feeder’s fans take this year in and year out, in any sport…

I don’t see us making any OMG moves in the FA, much more interested in all those draft picks we got

But yeah, so many expiring contratcs, we gotta have players backon this team, be interesting to see who is on the new roster next year!

i remember reading an article where d wade was asked about taking a pay cut so that he, lebron, and bosh could be on the same team and pretty much guarantee another championship for himself.

his response: laughed it off and said “i’ve got kids to feed”…

i completely saw his point, how he had to think of his kids and how 10 million a year wouldn’t feed them…