I don't think anyone is saying that Joe didn't make any calls or do his basic due diligence...but there have been too many guys who have moved or been available via trade, whom we had the assets to acquire but didn't end up acquiring; for the "what if no one wanted to join us in FA" excuses not to ring hollow.
This is a team that needs 3 top 6ers and Joe didn't add a one; not last summer, not when this season started going off the rails, and not at the TDL when we had pulled out of our tailspin and were clawing our way back into the playoffs. To me, that points to a GM deciding that the prices weren't worth pulling the trigger on, not that there weren't triggers to pull; even if we're going exclusively based off of what's been reported...and let's just say that I don't trust Joe's judgment on big moves for the reasons I've listed on each of the previous pages in this thread