3ammy3uck3ts wrote:SA37 wrote:3ammy3uck3ts wrote:
Brother it’s not about the on court product at this point. The chance to legitimately improve the on court product just came and went, we finished 2nd per usual. Now it’s about accumulating assets and actually leaning into asset management for once. If you can get even 2 1sts for taking on Beal you’ve almost just doubled our tradable assets, potentially doubled them depending on the years.
All those 2nd round picks we burnt over the years drafting KZ, dumping Dedmon, dumping Dipo etc? They just went for KD.
Knowing how Miami's FO tends to operate, they will be focused on the on-court product, not on paying $110M or so to a player they can't even move when he's expiring just to have 1 extra tradeable pick or 2.
Miami would need a trade target, and there just doesn't seem to be a big ticket player available after Durant. If you're thinking "in case Giannis becomes available", other teams will blow any Miami offer out of the water. 1-2 1sts will not make any difference there.
So over the next 2 seasons we should just accept being mediocre with average level assets as opposed to mediocre with good assets? Maybe I'm the one misunderstanding.
What can we do this summer or the next that trumps adding Beal for additional picks to add to the asset cupboard?
I wasn't giving my opinion of what I think Miami should do; I was just saying it is how Miami's FO is likely to operate. With Riley at the helm, Miami has never, ever made draft pick acquisitions the center of its plans. In fact, it has been a team that has traded away many of its draft picks to acquire vets. Basically the antithesis of Philadelphia's "process".
I don't have an issue with Miami trying to improve its draft assets, but you're hand-waving away what Beal costs in real dollars, the restrictions his trade clause brings down the line in terms of his value as an expiring contract, how his salary will restrict Miami's ability to acquire/keep players without getting over the tax/aprons...etc. You're also saying Miami should make a deal with an organization that has traded most of its 1sts in the next 4-5 years. Nothing here is financially sound or optimal in terms asset acquisition in this plan.
If Miami were to choose a rebuilding strategy where it maximized draft assets, I think that means Miami needs to move Herro and, more importantly, Adebayo. And the targets would have to be teams with lots of draft assets (like OKC).
Adebayo for Hartenstein, Wiggins, and picks/young guys might make sense.
I'm not sure Herro gets you any picks unless Miami traded him to Washington for Smart, Holmes, and 1-2 picks or something along those lines.
