Yungsta404 wrote:dms269 wrote:Jamaaliver wrote:
In an interview on 92.9, he specifically cites the James Harden situation as one to be prepared for. Field a solid team, but have enough assets to make a play for a star.
We've seen top players get traded in the last decade. Our issue, we never had the ammo to pursue a trade.
Pau Gasol, CP3, Melo, Garnett, Ray Allen, James Harden, D12, Deron Williams, Shaq, Kevin Love, DeMarcus Cousins
All those guys were traded for youth, picks, prospects, etc. If we collect enough, we could be in the running when Cavs blow up their roster or when GSW has to part ways with Klay. Or when Porzingis forces his way from NY.
That seems like a solid approach. Fielding a decent team (like we have now) but accumulating assets instead of wasting them as we've done the past few years.
Many of those players were traded for high draft picks or players from high draft picks. To me this idea sounds very similar to being another version of a treadmill team.
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This what basically Ferry tried to do. Remain a playoff team and while remaining flexible and sign bargain deals as "trade assets" to get a star. The issue with Ferry's approach was that those "trade assets" became liabilities because he couldn't negotiate those bargain deals to longer term contracts, and those players valued peaked during their contract year so he set the stage for them to get large bloated contracts (Millsap, Bazemore, Carroll etc..) which put us in the position we are in now.
A more expensive middling team.
Granted, he was let go before our situation has come to this but I doubt we would be in any much different of a position than we are now. We probably would have slightly different personnel.
I say you can't try to compete and be in 'asset gaining mode'. You end up doing virtually nothing.
Right, it ends up as a strategy that competes against itself. Both sides of the fence thing.