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Carmello Anthony would have been another Rodney White in Detroit.... no defense = no playing time.
Dumars said on draft day that Darko was a gamble for two years down the road. The local media has been frying JD's nibblets all season about it, but Larry Brown keeps letting Ben Wallace pound on the kid in practice, toughening him up.
Joe Dumars is smart. He could see other teams (Lakers, Mavericks) loading up for a one-shot run. Joe wants a multi-year dominance. Carmello was NOT the guy for that. Detroit's building from the inside- out. If scoring ends up being the final hurdle, a gunslinger like Carmello, or Antoine Walker, or Paul Pierce can be plugged in to finish the squad.
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