Dumars on Rebuilding

"Probably around ’09 is when I started to see it,’’ Dumars said. "You started seeing us slow down, and we knew we’ve got to rebuild the foundation and start getting a younger base of guys because those teams had a tremendous run.

"Once you see the run starting to fray and lose its legs, then you have to face the reality. We went to six straight conference finals, and there’s nothing wrong with acknowledging that, and I was fine with acknowledging that.

"The people in the trenches probably know before anybody else knows. Just little things that start happening. Toward the end of our run [in the 1990s] we weren’t as good in back-to-backs. I saw that in ’08 and ’09 as well.

"You start seeing little things like that but you know you are not as good. It’s the reality of facing that it’s coming to an end and, how do we want to deal with this?

"And my thing is, you’ve got to rebuild the foundation. That’s what we’re doing now. And we’ll keep adding pieces until we get it back.’’

- Boston.com

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You didn't see that until 2009, Joe?

It was pretty fucking evident in 2007.

by Mike Payne on Feb 19, 2012 2:05 PM EST reply actions

JoD...

Steady Trollin’

by Colin M on Feb 19, 2012 2:13 PM EST reply actions

sometimes i could swear his public comments are designed only to troll dbb.

"With logic he attacks. With statistics he defends."

@brgulker

by brgulker on Feb 19, 2012 2:25 PM EST up reply actions

Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean you’re not being followed.

by Colin M on Feb 19, 2012 5:32 PM EST up reply actions

We went to six straight conference finals, and there’s nothing wrong with acknowledging that, and I was fine with acknowledging that.

Rec’d.

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by Skylar on Feb 20, 2012 1:06 AM EST reply actions 3 recs

Shenanigans

You started seeing us slow down, and we knew we’ve got to rebuild the foundation and start getting a younger base of guys because those teams had a tremendous run.

Bullshit.

Joe Dumars’ idea of getting younger:

Trading 33 year old Chauncey Billups for 34 year old Allen Iverson.

Extending 32 year old Richard Hamilton for 3 years.

Signing 31 year old Tayshaun Prince for 4 years.

by Big Z in Orlando on Feb 20, 2012 3:11 PM EST reply actions 2 recs

i like how he uses

the slowing down in back-to-backs as an excuse.

we had an nice back court rotation of billups, rip, stuckey, and afflalo.

could have re-signed dice and gone after some big man in free agency and had amir as well. it’s not like he couldn’t have tweaked the team to remain competitive to this day. if he let rip expire the next year we could have a billup, afflalo, stuckey rotation still. how awesome would that be even today?

just my epinion but i don’t think that team ran it’s course. dumars just tried to be proactive, because you can obviously see that the celtics are going to be in rough shape coming up, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

by mcflies on Feb 20, 2012 3:29 PM EST reply actions