89Magicfan wrote:VFX wrote:89Magicfan wrote:Poole talk is ridiculous. He doesn’t make your team better. He’s making 30+ million a year. You don’t throw your assets at that.
KCP and Cole Anthony are not positive assets. Nobody in this trade is a positive asset.
The whole point of making a trade is to obtain a positive asset. What you just described is called a lateral move.
You see his scoring and 3pt shot and think we could use that, doesn’t cost us a ton (will deplete us of assets which can be used a filler etc) and keep most of our core. I get it but you’re taking about a player who’s contributed to wins in a small body of work. Everything else is mediocre less than satisfactory results. He’s the shooting version of RJ Hampton. Wows you with his outside shot, long distance pull ups (like RJ’s athleticism) but everything else is just like damn tf was that?
We would be getting him hoping we make him better not him making us better.
We need someone we know makes us better. Our offensive problems which have been well discussed a million times over aren’t just shooting and spacing. Paolo/Franz needs someone who can help them as well with the playmaking. Setting the tone. Setting the table. Calling the right plays see the floor,, the pace, the game in a way that Poole can’t fathom.
Poole as a backup at half the cost he’s at now, with our team already set, great. Bring him in and let him mesh but to bring him right now at his cost with our offensive problems, he’ll just inflame it.
I don’t disagree with a lot of this.
The choice Orlando has right now is one of three options. Two are real options:
Option 1. Spend draft picks + players for an upgrade in the back court (Simons, Sexton, Monk, and a reach in Reaves or C.White).
This option is appealing because these players address needs and lands a positive asset.
However, moving draft picks limits other moves Orlando can make. They aren’t 1 total move or player away from completing moves this offseason. Thats because Weltman didn’t make moves for 4 seasons. This option also makes it more difficult to address other needs on the roster because you are limiting your asset pool to acquire said players. This becomes easier spent on the lesser talent. Sexton probably lands in option 1.5 - the others not so much. The other issue is that you have to pay these guys after you acquire them. The money is going up, not down, for most of them.
Option 2. Move pieces for a lateral trade that consolidates assets while keeping flexibility for other roster decisions. This is like the Poole deal.
This isn’t appealing at face value because everyone wants big name players that have a draw. Poole isn’t as appealing as the other names because of his contract. What makes this deal appealing is that Weltman can use all the other assets at his disposal to upgrade the rest of the roster. Cole Anthony, KCP, Jon Isaac, and Goga are not positive assets that net you upgrades across the rest of the roster. Keeping 16 + 25 gives Orlando either two rookie scale contributors as insurance to move these players OR fodder to upgrade other spots. Orlando can also add a player like NAW using the MLE. Pooles money is going down, not up, if his deal is renegotiated.
Option 3: Do nothing
then he absolutely s**t the bed in WAS for most of the first year...I don't know why, but he was putting up like 5 pt games routinely
