paulpressey25 wrote:A point made by either Simmons or Rusillo that shouldn’t get lost in the discussion is that these superstars who want immediate help (or they’ll leave) need to be more astute and patient.
What we don’t know is whether Giannis insisted Jrue was THE guy he had to have, and have him now, or not. Given that we were linked 24 hours earlier to Schroder, might indicate we didn’t need to specially acquire Jrue.
To that point, making the Bogdan trade and holding onto Hill and Bledsoe might have been a smarter move. Then see just exactly what three firsts, two unprotected, and two pick swaps gets you either later this week or at the deadline. None of us armchair GM’s ever really spent time out here contemplating trades where we’d give up SO much in the way of future assets. We could have thought up some great stuff with all those picks to work with.
BTW, lets see what NOP might get for either Hill or Bledsoe in moving them to a third team before this deal is reported officially. I still think those two guys have real value.
I hear all of this and while it would be great to think we could've shopped those picks for Bradley Beal or something, I don't think many are bringing up the flip side of the coin here and how delicate this whole ordeal was.
We could be sitting here right now with Jrue Holiday in Boston after Ainge out GM'd Horst and they have few options to make any real upgrades and Giannis is unsold and decides not to sign the extension this week.
If those two deals did not go down, Giannis could be making a trade demand and our franchise relevancy is over for the rest of most of our lives.
I'm over the moon with where we are right now.
