I've been trying to stay away from the immediate aftermath and expected chaos that would be happening here because I knew there would be a lot of hot heads, anger/laughter at the Magic and Laker jubilation. In spite of realizing the inevitability of Dwight being traded it was still an emotional drain to see him leave and especially under such similar circumstances to 1996. People are criticizing the middling return the Magic got for Dwight but the reality is that options were incredibly limited due to Fegan and Dwight himself just completely ruining his value around the league. We likely had the chance to get Iggy or Bynum but I'm glad Rob realized that those two aren't guys we should be targeting at this stage. I even don't mind taking on the bigger deals of Afflalo and Harrington; I like Afflalo even though he's expensive, he's a J-Rich replacement with way more trade value around the league. Harrington can be waived after this season so he's pure trade bait.
The only thing I really don't like is how poor the picks are and that we couldn't get either Evan Fournier or Quincy Miller from the Nuggets. I see people kicking and screaming that we should've taken the Houston offer but what offer was that? It's clear that it was difficult to tell what was rumor and what was reality concerning their trade package, even Houston fans were saying their offer wasn’t as good as we were preaching. I still like Rob and feels he has a plan for the future even though I don't care for how he overpaid for Jameer but on a rebuild it really doesn't matter all that much. We'll be lucky to win 18 games this season so I'm pretty happy about that, I just hope Shabazz/Noel/Zeller aren't NBA fuckups.
Go Magic
