Preparing for 2nd half of the season

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I did some maths and figured out that I have enough slots to play at least one more player all the time. I'd like to use my team's depth for 2-1 trades (my leaguemates seem to like those) to compensate loss of Kevin Love and poor big man stats (FG + rebs + blk).
Would you help me to come up with reasonable trade offers? There are two managers very keen on trades of all sorts, so I'll post their teams as well.


My team (10-team, 9-cat roto):
G: Paul, Curry, Conley, Wall, Dudley
F: Durant, Horford, Anderson, Leonard, Ilyasova
C: Marc, Pau, KG

Team #1:
G: Irving, Lillard, Lin, Nelson, Stuckey
F: Josh Smith, Gerald Wallace, Millsap, Matthews, Ariza
C: Noah, Monroe, Unibrow

Team #2:
G: Kemba, Jennings, Bryant, Thornton, Jamal Crawford
F: Griffin, Young, Joe-J, Faried, Beasley
C: Pekovic, Big Baby, Bargnani


All suggestions, ideas and comments are appreciated!

[Apathy]

Garnett + Wall for Lin + Millsap

Don't like that one too much, tho, cuz in a month Wall should get you either one straight up pretty easily

KG + Dudley for Millsap

Your team's pretty good. I'd just wait for Wall to get healthy and stabilize into t30 value before seeking any more trades. The guys you'd want to include as the '2' in 2-for-1 trades -- Ilyasova, Leonard, Dudley, KG, Pau -- don't have much value. And there aren't any upgrades to seek on Paul, Curry, Durant, Anderson, Marc.

So you're left shopping Wall, Dudley, Horford, Leonard, Ilyasova, Pau, KG, with only one or two of those guys having much trade value to most teams.

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Currently I play CP3 + Curry + Conley + KD + Ryan + Al + Marc on a daily basis, the rest of my team are 'projects' (especially Wall, Kawhi and Ersan). Due to unstable efficiency and nagging injuries I'd like to acquire someone like Pekovic, Vucevic or Tristan Thompson now - but I'm not sure what is their value.
Also, who would you ship for Noah in my place?

[Apathy]

Wouldn't ship anyone for Noah NOW, when in a month his value will drop due to Rose's return. It'd be silly to pay 100% of his value now when he'll only be worth 80% in 6 weeks.

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I guess you're right, Noah's trade value probably exceeds his future outputs.
For now, would it be better to wait for value and then trade, or to improve front court with Vuc/Pek (or Amir Johnson / Tiago Splitter, as they are both on waivers)?

[Yilun]

I'd probably consider dropping Ersan for Amir Johnson if you are in need of big man stats.

I also agree to allow Wall to get healthy so his trade stock will rise.

A healthy Wall can probably net you a Vucevic or Tristan Thompson straight up. Both of whom I like alot going forward this year simply because of their team situation and the available PT that each player will continue to get. Out of all your guards, Wall is probably the one who may hurt your team the most (lack of treys, bad FG%, lots of TO's). But because he is a "big-named" player who will score plenty and get his assists/steals, managers will still consider biting on him as trade bait.

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Thanks for your replies, Apathy and Yilun. I decided to swap Ersan with Amir Johnson & wait for Wall to become more valuable.

Another thing, I'm curious to ask what do you think about such trade:
Team 1 gets James Harden, Team 2 gets Paul George + Klay Thompson.
Obviously I'm not a part of this deal, it just happened today in my league and it'd be good to hear your opinions.

[Apathy]

Ersan has way more upside than Amir, who has none.

Harden side obv, best player. 95% of the time the dude getting the best player wins in 2-for-1s. Even trade though, wouldn't make me blink.