Indiana coach Frank Vogel said Tuesday that the Pacers' depth will win them games even though they don't have any "super, super stars" like the increasingly common "super teams that teams are building and power houses and all that" that have become the talk of the NBA trade deadline.
NBA Trade Deadline: Danny Granger Is Not A Fan Of Super Teams
Vogel might not be deterred by the collections of elite talent being amassed in the NBA's biggest markets and warmest cities, but Pacer forward Danny Granger -- the closest thing Vogel has to a star -- was upfront about his distaste for this trend on Tuesday after the Pacers beat the Wizards 113-96 in Washington
“I don’t like it,” he said. “If I had a chance to do it, would I? I don’t know. But I don’t like how on three teams in the East you got 15 guys that could be All-Stars. That’s crazy. What about the other teams. I don’t think it’s good for the league if that keeps happening. You need parity across the league.”
The Pacers will have cap space this offseason if they want to add pieces via free agency, but Granger doesn’t see top free agents lining up to play in Indiana.
“Yeah, (we’re) definitely at a disadvantage because that would never happen in Indiana or Milwaukee or Minnesota ... Utah. Stuff like that won’t ever happen so it’s just kind of tough.”
At the same time, he doesn’t blame the players. Granger won’t be a free agent any time soon -- his contract runs through the 2013-14 season -- but he said when his contract is up, he would consider doing the same thing.
“If it ever got to that, you’d have to. If everybody else is doing it, and that’s the only way to contend in the next six, seven years, I would have to look at it. A lot of people would have to look at it. If that’s the formula for getting a championship, three, four, five all-stars on a team -- look at Boston, look at L.A. -- then you got to go with that.”
In the meantime, the closest thing the Pacers have to Super Friends is Josh McRoberts and Tyler Hansbrough:
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