joshuacf wrote:DCZards wrote:queridiculo wrote:The Wizards don't "have" to spend money.
Accounting for team spending doesn't happen until the end of the season so Washington has all the time in the world to figure out how to spend towards the salary floor.
Washington isn't going to play games and stay in his way if the parameters for a transaction either come out even or are slightly in their favor.
Pissing of high profile players and their representation isn't good business.
Yeah…I don’t know where this notion comes from that letting healthy, top players sit (or “pound sand”) if they don’t go along with your program is ever a realistic solution.
I've never understood this logic that GMs have to go along with whatever the players want in order to "avoid pissing off high-profile players".
If Beal had wanted to go to the Nets, and had demanded we trade him for Ben Simmons straight up, should we have accepted that trade?
You should avoid being unnecessarily antagonistic with high-profile players. You also should not cave to literally any demand that a high-profile player makes.
If teams know they don't need to make a deal with us for CP3 because we're just going to cut him if we can't find a deal,
then we'll never be able to make a deal.We should be looking to make a deal to move CP3. We absolutely should not be going into this with the idea that either we make a deal or we cut CP3. That's just terrible business and other teams will find that out and exploit us.
The entire discussion seems idiotic to me. Why would we cut CP3? He remains one of the best PGs in the league, it'd be fun to have him here for a year, or until the deadline anyway.
If Winger & Dawkins can get a deal for CP3 that they like, they'll trade him. If they feel they *have to* trade him, they'll take the best deal they can get -- though I wonder why they'd think they absolutely had to trade him.
Nor is there any "should" here, to tell the truth. The Wizards aren't going to be rebuilt in a year! Or in 2 years, or even 3. It's going to take time.
