Petro45 wrote:
You ignored a key part of my post. We are going to have to pay through the nose in two years to keep Brook. So if our goal is to keep Brook, find another stud in the draft, AND still have any cap flexibility to make necessary moves, we'll need to land that "superstar" in the next two years. That's a pretty big gamble.
If we didn't have Brook, and had a four or five year horizon where we could build through the draft without having to worry about losing cap space to re-sign one of our supposed building blocks, that would be an entirely different situation, and I would be 100% opposed to this trade (versus unsure about it, which is my current status). But you have to acknowledge that we have a window here, or you're being disingenuous.
OK that's a fair point, we will need to keep Brook. however, if we keep cap flexibility and assets for now, Paul and Deron's contract expires in two years, if we struck out in the draft process, we can either trade some of our remaining assets to get a star, sign Brook to an extension and pursue Paul or Deron. Just because we're living in the present doesn't mean we have to make moves during the present. We can literally wait and suck get high draft picks and hope they pan out. If they don't then trade our remaining assets for a star, use our cap space to pursue Paul or Deron and extend Brook. It's a much more sensible way off building a team, we'll have flexibility for two years in which we can do anything. If a star wants to go, we can go after that star.
Why do we have a window? Everybody in the entire NBA knows that we are REBUILDING. There's no rush, we don't need to make moves just for the sake of making moves, we're rebuilding and we're only in year two of the rebuilding process. We can wait it out and be patient. If there's any sort of window, it's two years from now, in which we have to convince Paul/Deron to sign with us, but if you read the last paragraph, I feel that's a decent proposition.
