Ror1997 wrote:Jagger-meister wrote:TheNetsFan wrote:All you need to know about Marks' view of CMC is that he signed journeyman Acy, before calling up CMC. Supposedly, Marks attends most of the LI Nets home games, so you'd have to assume he has sound reason behind his judgement.
Once again for those who don't understand, CMC just turned 22. You are bashing him based on his production as a 20 and 21 Year old. Of course Acy is going to get minutes over him, CMC isn't ready to play NOW. When he will be ready to play is probably 2 more years in fact when this team will actually be good. That's why it's called development. It's not what you get from him now, it's what you get from him when he puts on 20 pounds.
In 2 Years Nicholson will be 29 and still under contract. If Nicholson doesn't work out then we lose the trade. Pretty easy to follow. There is no question who the best player now is that was involved in the trade, Bogdanovic. If McCullough reaches his potential, it will look really bad. I have always thought he had the highest upside because he had promise both offensively and defensively. I don't like that we gave him up for such a MEH trade.
This trade isn't about Nicholson. This trade isn't about Cmc. They were both throw ins.
This trade is about acquiring a first round pick. The nets set out to get an extra first round pick (which isn't stated at all in your argument) , and they successfully did so. Nicholson was NOTHING more than filler. Nicholson could be the absolute worst player on the team and nobody would give a **** because he was filler. The real prize is successfully acquiring a second first round pick in the draft. Instead of developing Cmc for 2 more years so we can essentially have a 25 year old rookie in 2019 (that's your argument, not mine), we get to try again and draft a better, and younger prospect.
You're crying about filler and completely ignoring that we acquired a first round pick. A pick that is 1000x more valuable than Cmc. Don't open up your argument by saying other people dont understand what's going on, and follow it up by saying Nicholson is the deciding factor of the trade, and not even acknowledge the first the nets acquired. That just proves you're the one who's confused.
First off, Nicholson isn't just a throw in. He's the 4th highest paid player on the team with the longest commitment. McCullough is still on his very team friendly rookie contract. We are not comparing apples to apples here so please don't tell me they were thrown ins.
The pick is in the mid 20s. That's not incredibly valuable to me. McCullough could have been in this draft and would have most likely gone higher then the pick we are getting for him. We are basing his improvements vs men in their mid 20s. If he stayed in school and played vs guys his own age, he would be talked of in much higher regards. I can easily equate MCCULLOUGH = the Washington pick. You are assuming we are getting a finished product with the Washington pick when it's likely neither McCullough or the pick will be ready until 2019. We could have just given them the two best pieces in the trade. All in the meanwhile taking back a bloated contract in Nicholson if he doesn't pan out.
The other problem from a macro level is that we now have 15.5 million in 17-18 committed to Booker and Nicholson, neither of whom are starting quality PF. That means we will either avoid PFs in free agency and start one of these guys or, even worse, we sign a PF in free agency and our 3rd string PF gets paid north of 6.5 million. Neither is an efficient strategy.
So instead of trying to using inflammatory language like saying I'm crying about this or that my opinions aren't popular while inferring that I will be banned for going against the group think, why don't you grow up. I have clearly written well thought out rationale as to why I feel the way I do. You don't have to like it or agree with it. I'm OK with that.
