youngcrev wrote:76ciology wrote:the_process wrote:Too soon to start posting Embiid trades?
I think its way too soon.
I also believe that the best time to trade a player is when you dont feel like trading him. Thats when you get his peak value.
But that's working with the assumption that you want to trade every player at some point. Peak value is having an MVP actually playing on your team. If the plan is to perpetually trade players at their peak value, you're perpetually going to be a rebuilding team.
It's not exactly that though, Embiid is special, he is an outlier in terms of how much his level drops from Regular Season to Playoffs, there is little to no precedent on how much an MVP caliber player reduces his level of play in playoffs so much. So in this circumstance, it is justified to trade him on the basis of him never being all that in playoffs, of course you are going to rebuild if you trade Embiid, but then again, our ceiling being always 2nd round is not much more enticing.
What usually happens is that you have a player that is limited in playoffs but his value is not all that high. With Embiid however, he is limited in playoffs but his value is still really high (when he is playing and healthy), that's the ultimate opportunity cost for someone who has the main goal to win a championship.