minimus wrote:shrink wrote:minimus wrote:Would you trade DLo, Reid and Nowell for McDermott (bad contract), Josh Richardson (another TP type of player who can revive his career?), Tre Jones (MIN native, true PG, excellent defender, bad offensive player)?
Gobert/Towns/Knight + Garza
Towns/Anderson + Minott
MCD/TP/McDermott + Ryan
Edwards/Richardson/Moore + Forbes
Jones/Rivers/JMac
I’d love that, and Tre Jones would be one of my top five trade targets! I wish I could get more info about the Spurs though from the Trade Board, but their most prolific poster swears McDermott is a good contract, and believes that they have all the cap space they want, and more (to get assets by trading it) isn’t better. But I love your trade.
I am kind of disappointed by Trade Board ideas. Most of trade ideas are extremely biased. In my opinion McDermott is not a good contract, but what I know. I love Tre Jones but I have seen some stats about him that tell how limited he is in offense. However, if he can follow Tyus development path (improve 3pt shooting, add floater etc) he can be an impactful NBA PG.
That’s how I see this trade, and the Trade Board too.
When I first joined RealGM, and numbers were smaller, the Trade Board was amazing. The culture was that everyone left their fandom at the door. That was a huge strength, because it allowed two groups to come together - locals that understood their team minutae, and overall NBA fans, who could provide big picture thinking and call out homer takes. In those days, posters proposed trades, and we all worked collaboratively to try to come up with the best possible iteration that helped each team the most. People would point out the strengths and weaknesses of a trade, and offer solutions and tweaks that would improve it, so at the end of the thread, we had created the best possible deal.
These days, things are very different. There are still some
really great posters, but they are drowned out by the fan-posters. Team bias runs rampant, and many just come there to tell people their trade sucks. Rarely do posters make suggestions to improve trades. There is a creeping problem among some posters that whine that everyone else is biased against their team, if we don’t value their players as highly as they do. Finally, some posters deliberately talk up their own players, dishonestly promoting them like they are a used car dealer or the actual GM of the team. If you go to their local boards, where local fans may call them on it, they give a more reasonable valuation. There are entire teams that I avoid making trades with, trades that national fans might want to see, simply because I don’t want to listen to their 1-2 posters that behave this way.
I will continue to go to the Trade Board, hoping to read the ideas and analysis of the best posters, and contribute what I can. Lately, I’ve found less time to follow the NBA as a whole, so I mainly try to give my opinion and local insight about the Wolves, hoping it will help others. When I’m curious about a trade, I have been drifting more and more to each team’s forum individual Trade Threads. You still have to wade through a lot of garbage, from fan poster extremists who are too high or too low on their personal heroes/scapegoats, and you have to listen to people who don’t understand what a legal trade is under the CBA. But I recognize several of the best trade posters from the past staying there, and not bothering with the Trades & Transactions board. That’s a shame, because it used to be the best place for these people to meet and work together.
