FireNellieQuick wrote:shrink wrote:FireNellieQuick wrote: Shrinks deal of AR, Maggs, BW for Al seems ok value to me
Just wanted to clarify that this is not my deal.
You posted that basis of a deal earlier.. Whatever... It was so people knew where the idea came from.
It wasn't from me, and that's kind of the point. I don't even post trades with GSW in them anymore because I think the responses from the GSW fanbase is so out of touch with reality.
Now I know this comes off as fighting words, but what I actually feel is sadness. In fact, there is no fanbase I have this much regret for. GSW has a lot of passionate posters, and they also have some interesting positions that I hadn't considered. I still read GSW trades looking for these kernels. I feel like I'm listening to Rush Limbaugh or ABC's Sunday news shows wading through mountains of garbage because some of what their points are real gems (and a few of the posters can be pretty funny). But when it comes to a realistic evaluation of their own players, particularly young ones, their loudest voices are simply disconnected, regardless of how many moves they see in real life from the GSW front office. So for determining a team's local trade value for their players - the main service posters can provide for this board - its a waste of smart people who have drank too much kool-ade.
I first posted in this thread because I saw a somewhat reasonable trade, a somewhat reasonable decline, and then the typical over-the-top decline ("include the #2 before we consider it!"). It makes me feel sad to see attempts at legitimate GSW trades keep going down this same path. If the loudest GSW voices were total idiots, then I wouldn't care and would just stop reading the posts altogether. However, you're not, and that's why it makes me sad and frustrated.