I understand that it’s not hip to celebrate moves that are apparently stupid, but these are my feelings on the Shaq trade:
1) We weren’t getting it done in the first place, and I have little reason to believe that the same lineup +Grant Hill was going to get us to the mountain top. In fact, based on our performance versus a Parker-less Spurs, I seriously doubt that.
2) I’m not convinced Shaq completely ruins our style of basketball. He won’t be on the court 100% of the time, so this is something we’ll just have to see work out.
3 (and most importantly) HE’S SHAQ. This is bigger than when we had Barkley, and even bigger than Nash. It’s just cool, there’s no way to avoid that. He may be well past his prime, but this sort of thing has worked before in other places, so why can’t it work here? If it doesn’t work, at least Kerr will be gone. This shakes things up, and that might be what’s needed considering were were a great regular season team before, maybe the big guy can help us get over the hump.
I’m on board with this, because at least he’ll probably want to be here. I also want to see him jack up Tim Duncan, and that’s worth anything.
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