Texas Chuck wrote:Case2012 wrote:Posting any trades about DA is waste of time. He put up 23 and 15 basically the last 25 games and endangered the tank but he's been stigmatized af so he's worth a top 55 protected 2nd on real gm.
Forget your notion for a minute that RealGM is biased against your team. Lots of posters believe this and I know there is no convincing these posters of this once they've talked themselves into it. Even though none of them can ever explain why random posters are collectively against their team....
Do you honestly think Ayton is good value on his contract? Do you think were he a free agent this past summer and 10 or more teams had max space that he would have gotten a 2 year max?
See I do not. I don't think putting up some counting numbers in a small sample on a bad team makes him a max player. Particularly when the most important value a center has is anchoring a defense something he probably could do at a league average level if he wanted(we saw him do this for Phoenix before he decided nope his priority was his own offensive numbers), but he hasn't in 3 years now.
So maybe consider its not bias. It's he's a good but not great offensive center defending at a poor level over years now making max money. That's just not a max player no matter what his name is. And we have more productive discussions when we evaluate the player not start with some notion that people are just unfair to my team because uh reasons.
I agree that people aren’t just anti-Blazers, and I agree that Ayton is not worth his contract, thus no team would sign him at that level into pure cap space. All that said, Ayton is tradable, and could return something useful to Portland, but it would be at the expense of Blazers taking on different bad money.
