AntwanBoldin wrote:First of all why are you donating Marshon in a salary dump trade where it's not needed? Lol
Yea why would they panic? They're only playing .500 ball while claiming the city us ours.
You're turning your nose up at Amir b/c he probably wouldn't get crunch time minutes? Do you know what we're acquiring him for? A $20M nfl TE trying to play high level basketball for the first time ever and failing. What goes Humphries do? Kind of rebound a little?
Amir can do things Humphries can't and at the price of fields it's a clear upgrade for and a virtual wash salary wise.
I get being patient re: Nene but this a deal I definitely try for if I'm king.
This is a panic move at this juncture. It really is, pretty simple really.
You deal away our last salary filler for a bunch of meh.
Who said anything about crunch time?
I'm asking if a guy who's barely cracked 20mpg on horrible lottery teams his entire 8 year NBA career and still hasn't put up big number or big impact is going to come here and suddenly be able to play more then 10 to 15mpg?
And if you feel that he wouldn't, then why are you painting us into a corner by severely limiting our future trade flexibility? Especially for a guy who will struggle to beat out other flawed players on this roster, just because he does some things they don't?
You can't just combine player attributes and form a super player like this is NBA 2K13. You can't say, hey Amir can catch and finish, Evans can board, Tele can stretch the D and Lopez scores inside and pretend they're all on the court at the same time and fully mask each other.
If we trade away Hump's contract, you need a player coming back who does a number of those things all at once, is a major upgrade to our current platoon and is a legitimate big minute starter who fits in long stretches next to Lopez while working to exploit Deron's playmaking strengths.
Not just add more overpaid junk for the sake of making a move, when you'll find it super hard to re-trade those players as salary filler in the future if something pokes it's head out of the sand.
This is an impulse move with no long term plan or endgame. It's a "Hump sucks! Let's just trade him now, I hate all this losing!", when the big issues of why we're losing are ignored and written off with excuses and ultimately this trade will fail harder then just sitting tight.
And donating MarShon? You know Terrence Ross was just the 8th overall pick in the draft right? A super high upside young guy who simultaneously gives a longer window of high ceiling and internal improvement and a much bigger trade chip then we currently have, right?
You want Amir and Fields for Hump. That's a huge salary dump. But still we both know asking them for Ross is not going to fly as a standalone. I say offer them MarShon, cause that's the only way we should consider this ludicrous idea as is.
At least Hump is an expiring next season. At least there are probably some playoff teams that would give up their useless scrubalicious expirings for Hump at the deadline and then reroute those expirings to whatever team we're looking to deal with if they wouldn't take Hump.
Who is taking Fields or even Amir at the deadline or next draft night, offseason or next deadline if a great player becomes available, at least and especially if attached to our meager cache of assets?
What 3rd team is coming in to grab them for an expiring rerouted, especially when aiding us pick up a huge piece?
And yes, we've played like **** lately, but we're still 2 games above .500(til 9:45 PM tonight!
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But this is an MLB mentality trade. I can't endorse that move, I just can't.
Just my opinion on it.
