Post#1218 » by payitforward » Tue Dec 12, 2017 9:38 pm
CCJ -- if you mean the Gortat/Oubre/R1 pick trade for Cousins, I couldn't disagree more.
For about the 100th time, & not just posted by me, we cannot acquire Cousins, b/c we cannot keep Cousins. It's just not possible. There is no way.
At the end of this season, Cousins will be an unrestricted free agent. He can sign anywhere & for as much $$ as someone is sure to offer him. He'll command a max.
That means it would take the same amount of $$ for us to keep him. Assuming he decided that he preferred to play for us over... who knows? The Lakers? The Golden State Warriors?
But we can't possibly do that. We can't possibly keep him at that much $. Look at it on the basis of this trade, & here is the result: next year, we'd have @ $124m invested in 7 players. We'd be way over the cap & well over the luxury tax limit for 7 players. It would not be possible to field a full team. Oh, & we wouldn't even have that one new & cheap rookie salary.
But, the following year is even worse, way worse! We'd have $130m invested in 5 players.
Man do I wish this stuff would STOP already!
The only way the Washington Wizards can acquire DeMarcus Cousins is by trading one of John Wall, Bradley Beal or Otto Porter. Obviously it wouldn't be Wall, since that's the big marketing back story -- reunite Wall & Cousins. If we were to trade Porter straight up for Cousins, we'd lose in the deal. Pure & simple, & there really isn't any way to argue the opposite. I don't even think I'd trade Beal for Cousins straight up.
Then there's the fact that Cousins is viewed as a much more effective player than he actually is. He's a mammoth talent, of course: in fact, if you just look at how many points he scores, how many rebounds he gets, how many assists he gets, how many steals he gets, & how many shots he blocks he looks like a monster, a dominant player who would take his team to the promised land.
But, if you also look at how many times he turns the ball over, & you also look at his shooting %s (both 2 & 3), the air goes out of the balloon. He's still good overall, of course. But nowhere near the force people assume he is.
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