Ducklett wrote:drsd wrote:Ducklett wrote:Make it 3 frps, KCP and Jett for Sexton and Walker Kessler...what a summer that would be?
Then sprinkle a dash of Jingles and a pinch of shooting. Maybe take AJ Griffin off of the scrap heap for a glorious renenwal. Ship out WCJ or Isaac for a more reliable contributor like Portis or some shooting depth...It wouldn't take 2 months of watching Sexton and Kessler on a non-tanking team for this board to say the trade was awful, everyone knew it was bad before it happened, etc just like KCP's signing this summer. Even if they were fine at the end of the year after acclimating to a new team. Everything has to be now now now and never later around these parts. Lets be honest.
Even if you are right, the price is Caldwell-Pope and four players that will probably be marginal in the league. Come on dude: don't overvalue low FRPs and really don't overvalue Howard, a guy that won't be in the NBA in a couple years.
From an asset management perspective, the proposed trade improves the Magic.
See, the issue I guess is that I don't think the trade is bad, i'm not saying the trade is bad, and Sexton would certainly make the team better. But just like how no one liked the KCP signing (which is hilarious), no matter if the trade was good or not, many posters here would immediately think its wrong bad two months in. That was my point. Many posters want immediate results from everything. Suggs was going to be out of the league after his second contract just a mere 20 months ago, now Black is the dude that is already bust. KCP has played with our 3 best players like 80 minutes and we know he is useless and bad, even though he has 2 rings and was a 40% 3 point shooters for the last 5 years, he has a Magic logo on his chest now so he is worthless.
It blows my mind how we just glob onto a take and then just ride it into oblivion. We got people who think Suggs still sucks. Tristan is 4 years older than AB and gets a pass and is much, MUCH worse than AB. Like the internal consistency is loosey goosey as hell.
People knew it was a bad signing because he played the same position like a player who is better than him, because we needed a completely diffent playertype, a PG or scoring SG, even a Center upgrade was more important than the 3rd 3D & SG and because his low volume 3 point attempts doesn't change our bad shooting at all, even if he hits his normal %. The whole concept was dumb from start. Hey, we have a elite defense, burn our caps pace for a guys that makes us 1-5% better at it, so that we have a 95% defense instead of a 93% but ignore our 20% offense. It's easy math which move improves us more.
Now we play a almost retired 3rd string PG because surprise surprise AB is more of a 3&D wing with some ballhandling and passing instead of a PG.
KCP was never addressing any need of this roster. We didn't needed his defense at the position. He was never solving our shooting in the slightest. He doesn't solved anything at offense and was obsolete on defense.
