Frank Lee wrote:Good luck trying to trade any of our 150 million $ trio. Just don’t see any landing points that make sense or yield a positive return. This is the bed that was made by impulsive buy me a ring GMing. Are we good…? Yeah…. Are we a contender…? Not really. Will we be better next year…? Unlikely. Too much riding on a spindly 38 yr old with very few options to improve the supporting cast. We are slow, small, and fragile.
We essentially have GAllen and RONeal to trade, may be Okogie….sure we could move one of the rooks, but the restrictions from the salcap rules limit the return. May be we just swap some minimum deals? Why would opposing teams do this? We cant sprinkle in draft picks nor combine young prospect toss ins.
I’m guessing we just ride this out, more so from necessity than desire.
The only trades I’ve been able to come up with is GAllen for KOlynyck or TimeLord…..and why would either team do it? Allen is good but unless he just kills it from three, he’s just another chucker.
Yeah, we are where we are, and Ish is extremely unlikely to alter the course. Even though you can see these teams that built through the draft which I have always advocated for because the teams who draft well and build from within are the sustainable ones, like OKC, Houston, the new Spurs, GS and what they did before (and now), Denver, Cleveland, at least with Mobley and Garland, with nice trades for younger players, Utah now has a ton of assets and Ainge drafts well, Boston built their core with trades, and added the right vet pieces around them.
The teams trading for aging stars like us, both LA teams, Miami, and what Brooklyn did twice, have shown that it doesn't work, at least not for long.
One the plus side, our team, IF they can stay healthy, is pretty solid with great depth, and we did add very very solid rookies.
However, when we made the KD trade which I hated, giving up the future for a very injury prone aging star, might have helped us short term, but we were never going to be any sort of a clear cut finals favorite...just at best, in the mix. Had we kept our young guys and picks, we could have retooled around them with hopefully solid picks. The Haliburton miss stings, and of course the Ayton pick earlier, but I don't see us really competing for a championship any time soon, and likely won't be a contender until we get a chance to rebuild, which won't start until the early 30s, unless we nail very late picks in 26, 28 and 30.
And if KD continues to be injured or declines, Book I imagine, will want out not long after...though that won't necessarily be a bad thing at that point, though the teams that may want him then, are not likely the young and up coming teams, but they ones like the LA teams who go for aging stars rather than rookie contracts and building through the draft. Unless a team like Denver wants to pair him with Jokic. But the teams that are more likely to want him would likely be devoid of draft picks.
