I'm not entirely sure what the hell is up with him right now. If I was the best player in the NBA and I was playing for the Blazers I'd be jacked every goddamn day. How do you get even a LITTLE bummed out in his situation?
Being the best player alive by a decent margin and not even making the finals year after year would definitely bum you out. Also having failure as management would suck.
-Lakers suck few years back? Oh hai! Management gets Kobe one Pau Gasol. They also pick up Artest this year after losing Ariza. Odom doesn't hurt either.
-Howard is beastly, but can't do it on his own? Oh hai! Management surrounds him with loads of shooter to perfectly compliment his game.
Both are happy campers.
-Carmelo has a crappy experiment with AI, but then they go out and get him Billups, Nene, and Andersen. Decent support and they make a nice run last year, not so much this year, but yeah Melo is kinda 2nd tier superstar as is. Regardless, management does a good job of surrounding him with a supporting cast that fits with him.
Then you get the other superstars.
Wade- Sure they had that title run, but since then they have put absolutely nobody on his team. Granted this could change with their insane cap space if he stays so at least they are thinking ahead. (Future status with team: Unknown.)
Bosh- Management puts pretty much the worst defenders alive on his team. They go 30th in league in defense. (Behind Nets.) His future status with the team is unknown due to this.
Lebron- Management fear he might leave so they just throw together random big names.
Mo Williams- Okay this one works alright, but Mo IS NOT AND NEVER WILL BE a good second guy. He's clearly a third.
Shaq- Shaq's a huge names... but he's also 2 years too late to be effective... good job management
Jamison- He underachieved over and over with the Wizards. See Mo Williams in terms of being a number 3 guy, not a 2 in any way.
West- Heh... West just isn't that great
Varejao- Another guy who is okay at his position, but not great.
Basically they've taken a ton of random guys they could get and thrown them together. There is no rhyme nor reason to this team.
Kobe has 2 legit 7 footers paired with versatility guys in Odom and Artest. Not to mention Artest can take the hard assignments night in and night out to let Kobe do what he wants.
Dwight has a shit ton of shooters to go with him that all play decent team defense. Excellent schema.
Lebron has a bunch of guys that were thrown together to try and make him happy. It's like a 3 year old put this team together thinking it'd work because they have Lebron.
Sooo yeah... I could definitely see how he'd be getting annoyed of this. I can also see why Wade/Bosh/Lebron might leave their cities. Their teams are busy paying Jermaine, Turkeyglue, and Shaq insane amounts of money. Yes, some of these moves will open up cap space (and other involves Turk), but getting someone good with this space is never a guarantee.
