You're real good at reading stuff that isn't there. I didn't accuse you of defending Divac. Stating that D'Alessandro was fired as a counter to my argument that nobody should have any faith in our ability to get assets for Cousins is a poor one. Because, in the first place, my main point was that it doesn't matter that D'Alessandro was fired, because him merely getting fired wasn't half as bad as what should have happened to him, IMO. That's why I mentioned beheading: because, AFAIC, firing him wasn't good enough. And, in the second place, this team has a track record of making bad moves, no matter who the GM is: in other words, I wasn't saying that we should be skeptical because one GM was bad at his job, I'm saying that we should be skeptical because all of our GMs have been bad at their job! D'Alessandro wasn't the first Kings general manager to be bad at his job and, at the moment, it doesn't appear as though he was the last Kings general manager to be bad at his job.
I am not "all over the place." The train of thought is fairly easy to follow: trading Thomas for essentially nothing is just the tip of the iceberg of how bad a GM D'Alessandro was. However, comma, aside from about a six-year oasis, where we basically fell ass-first into a pile of gold, none of the other GMs that we've had before or since have been appreciably better, so why would anyone believe that we could pull off a hard reset?