schnakenpopanz wrote:if it was or is a massive overpay we can see when it is all said and done.
if you compare it to the deals other teams made and got a champioship KD was a massive massive overpay.
not because of the players only, because of the flexibility they left us with.
the picks that went out should be fewer.
who was going to pay that for KD anyway? we bid against ourselves.
We kind of did the same thing too with Bradley Beal! I mean don't get me wrong, I like him as a player and really like his toughness and tenacity to play through injury and just "tough things out," so much respect to him and I'm thankful he's on our team. BUT I'm not happy about his salary, and even less happy that we DID bid against ourselves in trading for him as well. Now I do understand thee value of offloading my least favorite player of the monty era...................... his son in law Shamet! And I do understand that we offloaded Paul in exchange for a younger more dynamic offensive guard option. AND I do also understand that we do still have pick swaps for in even years through the next 6 years (least favorable). And we endd up only giving up maybe around 6 2nds (+ 1 to the Pacers resulting in coulilaby). So altogether4 swaps and 7 2nds or equivalent to maybe 3 additional 1sts cumulatively if you figure that 2 nds these days are close to a first in value exchange (IF you have a halfway decent scouting department and draft record).
However, under that lens, it cumulatively becomes something like: 3 firsts/ 4 pick swaps/ 1 additional future 2nd (pacers) for a very solid yet also very injury prone star player on an enormous contract with a no trade clause who openly stated he only wanted to play for phoenix and obviously couldn't really be traded anywhere else BECAUSE OF his no trade clause!! and whom the wizards ownership and new GM were desperate to move off of to begin facilitating their long overdue rebuild! Shamet by the way could have been offloaded for some miniscule asset as an expiring deal due to his non guaranteed contract years. AND Paul could of fairly easily been offloaded as an expiring deal to some team. But even if they didn't feel like they had options for that, Paul still could of alternatively just been waived or waived and stretched that summer for around 15 million or around maybe 5 million or so over the next three years? Those details are honestly unimportant to me compared to Beals' salary/ known injury history/ and THE LACK OF OVERALL LEVERAGE THAT THE WIZARDS TRULY HAD IN THE DEAL. I mention this last part as most important as the wizards really had no real leverage in the deal, AND the only other team somewhat interested in Beal at that time (the heeat) hard pivoted to pursuing Lillard.
So for my part, giving up the cumulative value of everything under those specific trade conditions makes it a bad or losing trade for the resulting inability to really make any sort of moves not only due to lack of cap flexibility/ exponentially increasing apron penalties. But also and most importantly bidding against ourselves for Beal because he only wanted Phoenix and held all the leverage himself with his no trade clause and no legitimate other offers to honestly contend with. How can Beal offset this gross imbalance by our shoddy GM and trigger happy owner to make this become a success??
Very simply stay healthy, be more assertive in a primary ballhandling role as he's clearly our best downhill isolation player that is elite getting to the rim! And in doing this he can effectively cause the opposing defenss to collapse allowing for better spot up situations, more free throw generation, but most importantly freeing Booker up to excel at his natural role as an elite off ball scoring assasin and secondary facilitator. Beal needs to embrace his elite penetration and ballhandling abilities to help iniate offense upon brwaking down defenses or pushing the pace while Booker and Durant flair out more with our bench players cutting to the rim, etc. This will also contribute to better defensive chaos, and better flow in our offense too.
)…that is not “great” shooting numbers in the year 2024 unfortunately. Actually, it’s probably not “great” shooting numbers for the last 5 years or even longer.
Luckily there are actually some forwards that are currently unsigned that fit that skillset/archetype whom are unrestricted free agents currently and some we could actually add via the 24' draft/ undrafted pool (IF only Jones can contain himself at the thought of trading our least favorable pick just so he won't have to do work on the draft!! 
