The Davis/Keitt/O'Connor years are nearly over.
Last season saw AD start to look like merely a really good player instead of the greatest of all time. We thought that Keitt and O'Connor, being in their prime, would be ready to shoulder a lot more of the load, but that didn't quite happen to the extent we hoped it would. Keitt's scoring went up, but his assist rate dropped, his 3P% dropped, and his fouls jumped. O'Connor's scoring dropped off slightly, while his rebounding and assists got better. We missed the playoffs for the first time in 13 seasons and had a losing record for the first time in as many seasons.
We wish we could have kept AD for his entire career, but with a trip to tax hell on the way, we believed that if we weren't making the playoffs it was better to shorten our stay in tax hell, so we traded him to the Suns. We wish him well in his future endevors.
While we would have liked to keep Keitt with the team, we declined his team option to create cap space which will be used to take on bad contracts to get us out of tax hell. We wish Keitt well in his future endevors.
James O'Connor and Randy Abney have their bags packed and are ready to go. We're ready, willing and able to trade them so we can start the rebuilding process.
Expect this season to go badly. Probably the next few as well. We'll bide our time, take on some bad contracts and retool to get ourselves out of this mess. Pencil us in for last place in our division for a while.
Our starting lineup will be O'Connor, Abney and 3 other warm bodies until we can find homes for O'Connor and Abney, then we'll start 5 warm bodies.
With that, I'll open the floor to questions and trade offers.
