ConSarnit wrote:tecumseh18 wrote:Here's a scenario - the team's target has long been SGA. It doesn't make sense for OKC to keep him AND Giddey. If Dort is being moved to upgrade a lottery pick (in a weak draft), then at a certain point Shai (and his max contract) just doesn't make sense for the Thunder to keep around.
Shai for OG was a pipe dream last summer. But if the Raps can drive OG's value up around the league, is it crazy to suggest that OKC may make a move to balance their roster? OG would look really good catching passes from Giddey.
I gotta say, this makes no sense.
A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.
ConSarnit wrote:We have no idea if Shai is a target. All those rumors are from nobodies on sites like Raptors Rapture. Literally the only reason Shai gets tied to Toronto is because he’s Canadian.
Everybody on this board (except you, apparently) knows that Masai tried to trade into the 2018 draft to grab SGA. You think he's less of a target now?
Also, Shai is a pg/sg and Giddey is a sf.
Giddey is listed as a PG/SG (same as Shai) on every major site - ESPN, Wikipedia, NBA.com. But forget that. In an era of positionless basketball, they both are primary ball handlers. Sure, you can't have too many of them, but sometimes too many cooks spoil the broth.
They will almost certainly draft a 4 or 5 at #2. OKC also has no salary tied up so Shai on a max means nothing to them. He’s also 23. How does he possibly not fit on the current OKC roster?
The issue is whether it makes sense to have redundancy at the position of long primary ball handler, when you could swap one for a guy like OG (plus draft capital) who brings a whole 'nother set of skills.
Finally, Presti is not dumb. He’s not going to see PDX lusting after OG and think “damn, maybe I’m under valuing OG”. He’s too smart for that.
This is the guy who gave away Harden (and a virtually certain championship) for nothing because he wanted to avoid the tax, then went into the tax anyway. People make mistakes. Also, some execs hate whiners - e.g. if SGA through his agent starts complaining about the Thunder's continued focus on development and tanking. That's how the Jays got JD from the A's for nothing - after he pissed off the great Billy Beane. Hell, Presti has never even had a book or movie made about him.
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