I know we are supposed to trust Morey, even to turn stuff down..... But if we have this same roster in 2 weeks, I will be sad and feel that we will have wasted a lot of time and made a large mistake.
I disagree with your assumption that Kobe and Wade are both replaceable; the rings on their fingers as the Alpha Dogs should prove that they do things that other guys can't. I can't buy into the fact that they're overrated if you absolutely need at least one and at least one more all-star level talent to win the championship. Ray Allen was the 3rd most important player on the Celtics championship team, and without him, they don't beat the Lakers. Hell, they don't even get KG without him. This probably explains why he held on to Tracy for so long; maybe we could have got 75 cents for him with Prince and Billups, but we'd still be lacking the elite talent to win. I believe that the perception that Daryl Morey overvalues his own players is because he has his own stats that for obvious reasons, he can't share with other GMs. So if he's going to try and sell another GM on his players, he's got to use conventional statistics, which the current roster is notably bad at. Thus far, we've seen that Morey has been excellent at evaluating developed NCAA talent (Juniors and Seniors), and international free agents. This seems to be where his stats have been of most use; translating outside stats to the NBA. It's still a question of how successful such a method is in translating limited minute contribution in the NBA to major minutes.
