Bryan Colangelo

What do you call a general manager who possesses an Isiah-like level of foresight, but somehow manages to pull pretty amazing trades out of his ass every couple years to keep his team from going completely under?

Average-to-mediocre, and that's exactly the kind of GM Bryan Colangelo is.

Despite whatever wizardry he may have worked in the desert, the guy hasn't been on top of his game since coming to T-dot.

Nevertheless, some members of the media can't help but jump on his nuts every time he makes a trade. So let's examine the latest:
Trading away Hedo, Jose and a large part of the trade exception created by Chris Bosh's departure for Boris Diaw, Leandro Barbosa and Tyson Chandler.

Great, great decision. But still, all Colangelo's actually accomplished with this flashy trade is to cover up/correct a couple of the worst blunders he'd previously committed. I can't blame too harshly for the length and price of the Calderon contract, because at the time it was widely lauded as a great signing, but the Hedo contract was regarded as a mistake even before the ink dried. The reality of the situation is this: The 2010/2011 Raptors are still going to stink, the only difference is that the certainty of further stinkitude in the future is somewhat diminished.

As a fan I'm happy that I'll have a fairly sympathetic and entertaining team to root for as they lose at least 55 games, but the analytical part of my brain is terrified that this seeming-forward-progress will be levied into a contract extension and that I'll have to put up with 3 more seasons of mediocre-to-average.