Beenie wrote:RexBoyWonder wrote:MartyCONLONNN wrote:The homer blindness is impressive on here. You’re talking about trading a one dimensional shooter who’s miserable on the defensive end & was a non factor in both the ECF & Finals for a 2 way all star calibre player who is considered the best wing defender in the league and can drop 30 on any given night.
You can scheme shooters who cant create for themselves out of a series but you can’t do anything about an elite defensive force and dynamic playmaker/scorer
If they were the same age, and more importantly made the same salary, no one would question that Jure > Duncan.
But the younger player will have a cap hold of ~2Mil in a year, while the other will have a cap hold of around 27Mil, which will kill the chance to add a third player who is much better then both of them.
We need to think big picture here, Giannis looks to be attainable, he's 26 YO, he's the MVP. You've got to give yourself the best chance to get him in a year.Opportunity cost (also referred to as Alternative cost) is defined by New Oxford American Dictionary as "the loss of potential gain from other alternatives when one alternative is chosen". [1
This is assuming that Jrue wouldn't opt-out and want to resign. I'm assuming in the opposite direction that he would because I give Riley the benefit of the doubt that he would only make the deal under those conditions. We already have the Galo example to look towards as a precedent.
It makes no difference if he opts in or out, we won't have enough cap to have both Jrue and Giannis on the books, Unless you want to dump Bam or Jimmy.
