How can you write off Alston already? He has yet to play with Yao and TMac, yet alone developed chemistry with them. You're being ignorant to the fact that Alston has been injured. Would we be any better had we kept James and he got injured? Would we be better or worse if James was on the bench in a suit instead of Alston? How can anybody know how good or bad Alston is when he hasn't played with our team? It just sounds like armchair GMing BS. Sorry but you'd be a terrible GM if you "deal with next year...next year"