parson wrote:theatlfan wrote:Personally, I'm waiting for the draft to fall out before attempting a Teague to MIL deal. The deals I see are either something along the lines of Teague + a protected 1st for Sanders or Teague for Ilyasova + the protected 1st.
Cannot understand Ilyasova's attraction for us. Are we going to start him at PF? At SF over Carroll? Will he replace Scott as backup scoring PF?
First and foremost, it could be a buy low opportunity and that's always a good trade. One option is a three way trade; if not that, then our end game would obviously be to deal Millsap to open up the minutes to rehab Ilyasova. Just think that having Korver and Ilyasova together in the same lineup would literally stretch opposing D to the breaking point which, in turn, would give each of them each more open shots and an open lane for the other 3. Down the road, that could only mean that Ilyasova and Korver would have more value if we were re-packaging either down the road. In the end, it's all about amassing the assets to make the move for the star / superstar level player and I think we could end up with more trade value in trading Millsap now and getting Ilyasova+ in for Teague than we would by holding Millsap and dealing Teague to someone else.
Even having said all the above, my preference would be to deal for Sanders. I find Sanders a much bigger risk than Ilyasova (think the injuries are more of a sign of things to come than a 1-year blip), but I'd still take the chance on Sanders right now. Considering the value difference (I'd expect to get sweetener on the Ilyasova deal while I'd expect to give it up in the Sanders deal) it's a near thing though.
