Quote Originally Posted by softailrider View Post
Dumars messed up on A.I, not thr first time either- remember Darko?
How so ? This was a great piece of work by Dumars. He knew he wasn't going to win this year even with Billips. He picked up AI with the hope he would at least be competitive this year. AI was going to be gone after this year regardless. Dumars wanted the expiring contract more than anything. Now after this year with AI and Sheed gone Dumars has some money to work with to rebuild the team that he knew was overdue to begin with.

As far as Darko yes that was a big mistake but Joe was somewhat new on the job and he had all those European scouts in the front office in his ear having him think European players were the way to go.