Kobewade11 wrote:Flash4thewin wrote:It's tricky because we really dont have valuable assets outside of Bam and Butler. It would take every pick we have and even then our picks dont have the same gravity as other team picks. The interesting thing about supporting players is that if we are being honest, thats our strength. Every year we get some scrub basically off the street, undrafted and make him into an NBA player in our system. It's close to impossible to do that with a real star, a difference maker. Dame here and we are favorite.
I’m not sure how we keep getting back to this point. If we could pull a Milwaukee and just swap out point guards, sure we might be favored to come out of the East. Reality is based on the Miami tax that Portland wanted us to pay we’d be closer in roster construction to Phoenix than any team that is a guaranteed favorite.
Unfortunately, our own players have not done us a service to up their trade worth the last couple of years to put us ahead of the other contenders with trade bait.
Herro, is finally starting to up his trade value but still has injury concerns, and has been injured in playoffs runs whether they are just some random unexpected thing from just hustling the fact is he still gets injured. If he finishes the year with 25ppg-5-5 with good efficiency and 40%+ 3pt% That will help us be able to shop him around for a star player, specially with his age.
Duncan has turned things around but outside of this year, his contract was looked as do not come close by everyone around the league with things like you need to attach multiple picks to get rid off or at a min 1 FRP.
Lowry was looked as a bad contract from day one, after finishing his first year here. Has finally grabbed some value as an expiring here at the end, and will become far more value the closer we get to the trade deadline. However Miami seems pretty on lock on just letting him expire.
Caleb Martin is seen as a great contract and value around the league but his current string of injuries are just not helping his value at the moment. This is not his best year, and he is unable to stay healthy so far.
Nikola Jovic, has not done himself any service on upping his trade value, as he is still very much raw and just has some future potential that some team may feel he can untap.
JJJ, after the season he has had is not going anywhere any time soon, his age, and talent is extremely valuable to the Miami Heat on team building standpoint. Specially with his rookie numbers vs his production.
Our FRP's are also devalued around the league due to us always being a constant in the playoffs, and going for it with mediocre talent. We have also finally started to recuperate our first round picks after the big three trades, Goran Dragic, Jimmy Butler, etc those trades are finally getting put behind us. We still have a 2025 to OKC which is capping our ability to offer more.