Tyrone Messby wrote:I mean as moreso why ship out a young key piece? Wasn’t the argument that he wasn’t a new regime piece? You could probably get a second at least for Kispert. Just no real reason to trade Deni other than “not being your guy.”
We have 93 pages on this thread discussing this.
The bottom line is that they wanted to bottom out for a few years and accumulate high draft picks and they were worried that Deni might be too good to make tanking possible. So they tried to be cute and trade him for what they thought was "selling high". The problem was they should have waited a year because it was obvious that Deni was in the middle of a break out and the league hadn't yet figured out how good he was.
I get the rationale for the trade, it was the timing that was off. There was no need whatsoever to rush it and do it last summer. You don't trade a 23-year-old just as the his production curve has gone vertical.
