Eh, it honestly feels like our front office is just kinda lagging behind right now. Not in a “Everyone is better than us and we’re trash” but we it feels like we have a very old-school era to approaching free agents and building a team.
But, in hindsight, it’s kinda easy to understand why. The truth of the matter is that after Lebron left, it would have been really easy to turn everything loose and start to rebuild. But we ran and gave Bosh that contract, tried to keep it competitive and scramble a bit after getting blindsided, and then draft picks started becoming freakish valuable. Then we had the injury issues so we just kept being sold into thinking we were right there if we could just be healthy and then we’re here.
Now the name of the game is lottery talent for cheap, a star to attract other stars, and vets willing to take less because they believe in your competitive value.
We thought we could sell stars on Miami toughness, culture, and lifestyle but it’s just not enough anymore. But unless we draft and develop a superstar talent, I think our best bet is to just let it play out. If we can build out a solid supporting cast on good contracts then maybe we can try to attract 2 guys at the same time in 2020/21.
As for now, I’m just gonna cheer for the dudes we got and hope they develop into possible stars. Might be brain dead to think they’ll ever be stars but we’re pretty much just sitting on our hands for a couple years anyway.
