tdjm wrote:Saberestar wrote:bwgood77 wrote:It really doesn't matter much what Kieff wants though, even if he doesn't want to be in Phx. We have his rights and unless he refuses to play or something, his trade value should only go up, especially once the legal stuff is behind him.
I think it's exactly the opposite. If a player that have a guaranteed contract for the next 4 years wants out you have to trade him as soon as possible, because his lack of effort and interest is gonna be unreal. He is gonna be paid no matter what.
If he's being a prick in the locker room and he's locked up for 4 years, it doesn't matter. You can suspend him from the team indefinitely until he's ready to apologize and play hard. If he's a disease, you can play hardball and take steps to isolate him from your team until he is cured. He can sit out and watch players ink progressively larger contracts as the cap jumps and think "****, I'm going to swallow my pride and build my resume so I can get PAID in 2020" or he can continue to get paid in the short term and whittle away his chances at future $ by earning the rep as a pouty headcase.
I'm going to be really disappointed if they sell low, this front office is making a habit of it which is absolutely inexcusable for any team, ESPECIALLY a rebuilding team. Sold low on Goran. Failed to sell high on Gerald until his value gutterbombed and it dropped to nothing. Sold low on IT. Markieff probably shouldn't be in anyone's long term plans at this point, but the FO needs to at least come up with a damage control plan to make sure his value is high before they sell.
I agree with your first paragraph. I don't know how you can say they sold low on Dragic, given the circumstances, unless you are talking about the creation of those circumstances and not trading him a year earlier. But I don't know how two first rounders, one unprotected, is low, with an impending free agent you can lose for nothing. I don't really even know how much more you could have gotten a year earlier..or half year earlier. I think what we got for Isaiah is fine. It was a good trade for both teams. We basically used our cap space last summer to add a first round pick next year. I don't know that we could have gotten much more given the large supply of solid point guards in the league today. I agree to some extent on Gerald, but I don't know how much trade value he would have had.
I seriously doubt they will trade Markieff unless they have another PF deal in the works, or if he is traded straight up for a starting caliber PF.
