Re: Trade Ideas
Posted: Thu Feb 1, 2024 5:07 pm
jbk1234 wrote:Crunch 99 wrote:jbk1234 wrote:
With Beasely as the primary defender, he is, but if the other team assigns OG or Derrick White to him, or if the other team doubles him to get the ball out of his hands, it starts to look very different. If Mitchell extends, and if the Cavs were to trade Garland for a two-way wing, then that two-way wing better have the ability to run an offense.JonFromVA wrote:If anything this stretch points to the value of the redundancy of Mitchell/Garland and Allen/Mobley ... because just imagine 2 of them were traded and then 2 of them got hurt.
Redundancy is a nice, regular season luxury, but having a pair of your redundants be the two highest paid players on the team and eat up 41% of the payroll is not a championship formula imo. (Maybe I will have to eat my words. Lol.) As soon as Mitchell signs an extension, I would expect the Cavs to trade Garland for more complimentary player(s).
Mitchell continues to take his game to higher levels. During this latest stretch without Garland, Mitchell averaged 28 ppg with 7.9 ast, 4.9 rebs, 1.9 stl , 2.9 tovs and 16.6 netrtg while the Cavs went 12-3. His season stats are better than Dame's, and better than Garland's, especially on advanced stats. Mitchell should have got the start over Dame this All Star game. I don't doubt OG can give Mitchell some trouble, or the combination of White and Holiday, but those guys can make life difficult for almost every starting point guard.
Mitchell v Dame
https://stathead.com/basketball/versus-finder.cgi?request=1&seasons_type=forall&year_min=2024&year_max=2024&player_id1=mitchdo01&player_id2=lillada01
Mitchell v Garland
https://stathead.com/basketball/versus-finder.cgi?request=1&seasons_type=forall&year_min=2024&year_max=2024&player_id1=mitchdo01&player_id2=garlada01
I don't know what's so hard to get about the idea that organization wants more than a single playoff series sample size, against the worse matchup we could draw, before it makes any franchise altering decisions, especially with Mitchell being a flight risk. Trading Garland now is not something the will, or should, even consider.
Well I did say "As soon as Mitchell signs an extension....".