Saberestar wrote:Slim Charless wrote:thamadkant wrote:
Revisionist take with Beal.
Beal had decent stats last season for a 3rd wing and having a clash of role with Booker.
This season, when healthy he had good games also especially as 6th man.
His biggest knock is his injuries and fragility and making top 10 player money.
He has had bad games but that is now apparently because he was being turned into a player that he isn't and also again clash with Point Booker.
Beal is overpaid and injury prone, but he is not hot trash.
Bell isn't trash but there's a 0.00% chance that the Rockets will take him lol. Our best deal chance-as I keep saying, is to Philly for PG13. Then hope for something small on top of it for taking the deal. A pick or 2. Maybe McCain if somehow things go bad there and Embiid+Beal make it happen is probably the peak.
Houston already has Beal in Jalen Green....and a younger version of both of them in Cam Whitmore. The latter of which I would LOVE to have as he is an absolute bucket. Unfortunately for him, Whitmore can't get any love from Ime.
I would be fine trading Beal for PG13 but I think we wouldn't get any asset out of that trade.
It is a win/win (or lose/lose lol) trade because we would take the longer deal but they would take the NTC. That makes the trade fair IMO.
Even with all his bad play and injuries last year I think that PG13 is the superior player and he is more impactful on defense than Beal, so the biggest question is if the Sixers would like the trade. I don't think so. But I think the Suns and Beal would be OK.
The thing is though, We shouldn't touch that trade without a number of assets coming back! Because by comparison, Beal is still the better scorer on better efficiency, has a shorter contract, and still actually plays with energy and tenacity.
But George looks completely washed, uninterested in playing anymore and is on a longer contract that would take us out of being in play for the very loaded 2027 summer of free agency.
And there are an insane amount of big name players, impact starters, quality rotation players and high caliber depth pieces throughout that free agency.
When Beal would come off our books, we'd have over $60 million to spend on completely revamping our roster around Booker that we couldn't previously pursue due to lack of trade assets and cap space. But signing them outright from free agency requires no assets surrendered aside cap space.
Taking on Podcast P at his salary for an additional year would completely take us out of any possibility of that option. So we'd absolutely have to be compensated for the risk. Because if he is completely washed or just doesn't even want to play anymore, then we'd be so much worse off taking on his additional year/ salary.
He doesn't even have a no trade clause and nobody is willing to trade for him despite being very available by Philly.
That's gotta tell people something!! And that's not even considering the fact of the potential animosity between he and Booker and how that could possibly become pretty toxic in the locker room, on the court, and throughout our roster.
Unless we're getting significantly incentivized, Phoenix should just stay away from trading for George entirely.
