penbeast0 wrote:gambitx777 wrote:Wall was untradable. Westbrook was untradable. Beal was untradable. We got all those deals done. Pool can be moved and don't be surprised if it happens.
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Certainly he is moveable. The question is whether we are willing to give up the assets (Bilal, 1sts, etc.) to move him or if anyone else feels their contract is more toxic than his. I would say that IF this team is committed to rebuilding and if he continues to play the way he has, he's not movable for anything we should be willing to give up.
There's no chance in a million years they would trade any of that to move his contract. For people in denial, which I'm not saying is you btw, this team is going to be HORRIBLE for probably 4-5 years minimum because they handled the tank totally incompetently. We all know this now, and some of us knew this years ago which is why some of us were screaming for a Beal trade for nearly half a decade until his trade value completely collapsed just in time for them to make the worst trade they could have with him as an asset EVER. IF that wasn't bad enough, hopefully everyone knows that the failure to do the deal by '21 or early '22 at the latest destroyed our ability to tank properly for back to back back deep, top end drafts in '21, '22 and '23. Instead, like the totally incompetent organization we are, we not only tanked Beal's value so thoroughly we actually had to get negative trade value to move him, we also managed to screw up the tank so thoroughly that we tanked just in time for the end of a 3 year good run of drafts and the start of another crappy one
As such we have NOTHING to build around right now, other than Bilal, those 2nds, and our own likely top 3-5 firsts in supposedly back to back crappy drafts. Certainly '24 is regarded as the worst class since '20, and as such, if we're honest w/ourselves, we know that this team is gonna send close to half a decade in the high end of the lottery both because of how god awful the current roster is AND because we're tanking in time to draft, at best, complementary players based on current evals of the prospects.
So to my mind, anyway, I have no problem eating the Poole contract until it's either over, or he boosts his own value enough to move him. Honestly what will this team be doing anyway? With this roster, and crap drafts in front of us we're tanking for (or at least one anyway), we are going to be a 15-25 win team from now through '25 at bare minimum, and probably through '26 or '27. Poole's contract is utterly meaningless beyond the possibility that he rebuilds stock and reputation or not. He doesn't just have a month to do this, he has another what, 3.5-4 years? So I could care less one way or the other. We're 1 month of a season into a 4-5 year implosion and rebuild, the rebuild could have been close to over now, but ownership and the scumbags that ran the organization cared more about clearing paychecks than actually doing their job, so a rebuild that could have easily been finished, w/some lottery luck, by '22-'24, is now gonna take at least twice as long to complete. So be it. If you're 75+ years of age, I'd move on and pay attention to other sports, if you're younger, you can put up with the tank, it's already been 43 years of dog ---- basketball anyway, right? What's another 4-5?
