Exp0sed wrote:TimberKat wrote:Exp0sed wrote:
Funny how the narrative had changed. It was all about small ball a few years ago. Everyone thinks Wolves were crazy making the Gobert trade. When the trade happened, Connelly and Finch said they see the new trend coming and other teams are going to have to figure out how to play big to match up with us and everyone laughs including Chuck and Shaq.
that's not entirely accurate. Gobert just came off yet another season in which he dominated on D in the rs and was borderline unplayable in the playoffs. Wolves were correct in thinking this was a personnel and scheme issue and not an innate issue with Gobert himself, so good on them
however, the bulk of the criticm for that trade was because it was universally felt the price they paid was a.) way too steep b.) way above the market value of Gobert at the time and c.)that they were bidding against themselves..no1 could figure out why they offered so much when Aingle was clearly very interested in selling and no1 else but them was buying
it was less about the actual basketball fit even tho like I said, there were plenty of doubts regarding that as well at the time and it makes sense if u consider Gobert's playoff play on those Utah teams
We don’t know if they were bidding against another team. I could see OKC, NYK, BOS be interested.
Wolves essentially traded the 22nd in 2022 (already picked so less value) and 4 future first for Gobert (2023 turn into #17 , two unprotected, one top 5 protected). All the Twolves players included were purely for salary matching. The alternative would be JMcD, 22nd pick in 2022 and 2 future unprotected (2023 turn into #17 and 2025 unprotected). While including JMcD seem more fair value but I would keep him instead. Depending on how much you value Gobert’s impact to the team, I don’t think Wolves overpaid by much.
Wolves were looking to add core talent and there isn’t a lot of grade A available and willing to play for an unproven team. While Gobert/Towns may not be the perfect combo, who else could they had added? KD, Beal, or Lillard? Porzingis maybe the only good alternative.
There were a lot of people who thinks Gobert/Towns doesn’t work on the court too but the bottom line is the trade turned one of the worse defensive team into the best. Trading DLo for Conley/NAW also helped.