JNewton wrote:Snakebites wrote:NYPiston wrote:
When did they start? All they've collected is throwaway 2nd round picks, the Pistons never weaponized their cap space to add some real assets. If the Pistons can get a 1st to take on Simmons, they should do it especially since they don't have a 1st outside of the current one to use as a trade asset.
If we could get one of BK’s good firsts for taking on Simmons you gotta do it IMO. Value-wise it’s a better use of assets.
Not sure that’s possible though.
I would concur, but I'm not even sure how many 1sts Brooklyn can even trade. I believe they still owe a few to Houston from the Harden trade. Weaver's failure to capitalize on cap space to accumulate assets has probably been his biggest failure and might be the biggest reason I think the new POBO is going to have to re-rebuild.
I still don't see how we were going to get a bunch of firsts for pure salary dumps. Most teams who have a bunch of intriguing looking 1sts got them by selling off All-NBA players in their prime (Houston, Utah, OKC, Brooklyn, etc), which we obviously didn't have. Was there mayyybe a late 1st hanging around some year we could have gotten in on with more patience? Probably. Generally I think teams are hesitant to give up 1sts for salary dumps that aren't guaranteed to be low picks, which Weaver has been able to move into by packaging 2nds anyways.
Weaver did manage to turn cap space into Jerami Grant and then him into a lotto pick a couple of years later. I would have liked to see more deals like that. Try to acquire underrated talent on decent contracts and then sell them off in trades. Someone like a DiVincenzo would have had great value here even if we gave him like $5M more per year than the Knicks could.