MorbidHEAT wrote:KingDavid wrote:Unless y'all are prepared to get rid of Bam, we're likely not getting Mitchell. What assets do we have that outweigh the assets of other teams that are interested in him?
We are going to have to trade Bam at some point, but it won’t be for Mitchell. We are very steeply heading into a full rebuild. We can delay it until Jimmy is done, but it’s coming. Bam will be the only asset that possibly could get a meaningful return.
We have been trying to retool to account for 2 different timelines for a few years now. It’ll catch up to us eventually.
Or you just keep acquiring good to great talent and hope for that chance to acquire a top tier player vs tank for year with no guarantee that the draft will have franchise players, Miami will have a high enough draft pick and they don't just miss on the pick like the Precious over Maxey, Bane and Quickly seems to be.
Just keep developing player and always be ready to trade for talent for cheap.
Miami already has Bam, you have a solid young player to replace some of what Butler does in Jaquez Jr, Jovic looks like the type of big you want in the 3pt era and who knows what happens with Herro. That should be a nice core of being a .500 team, so with a trade or 2 of adding more higher-level talent this team starts trending upward towards a 50-win team.
How about this, what if Miami took a chance this summer and acquire KP? Boston sent out Smart, Gallinari (filler), Muscala and a 2nd round pick and got back KP and TWO first round picks. A trade like that could completely change Miami's future, hell, they had the chance of keeping Butler, Bam and Herro for Beal and didn't even call Washington back, Beal had to call Miami for the reply! Talk about his injuries all you want, that's a high-level scorer who had TWO 30+ ppg seasons under his belt, has shown he can be a scorer in the playoffs and was only 30 and even though he has a no trade clause, he'd be Lillard's current age at the end of the contract.
There have been and will be moves to get better for Miami, they just have to make them, I think they believed in Herro to the point they refused to trade him in a package for anyone except for the top of the NBA players which probably was a horrible call especially as close as this team was to possibly win a championship.
