Ruzious wrote:trast66 wrote:Well this pick and contract was a bit of a stumble, minor though it is. At least admitted mistake and moved on.
Washington acquired Jonathon Simmons and Philadelphia's second-round pick (No. 42 - Admiral Schofield)
Philadelphia acquired cash considerations
Signed 3-yr $4.1MM contract Sunday, July 14, 2019.
Oklahoma City acquired Admiral Schofield and the draft rights to Vít Krejčí
Washington acquired the draft rights to Cassius Winston (selected 53rd overall) and a 2024 second-round pick
If you're a Tommy Shepard fan, you rationalize this by saying - Tommy got us a free 2024 2nd round pick.
Missed this.
Tommy didn't get us a free 2024 R2 pick, he traded the #37 pick this year & the guy picked with the #42 pick last year for the #53 pick this year OKC's 2024 R2 pick, which I speculate will be a low one. That's giving more value for less value overall.
Tommy did this, because he needed to get rid of his really
amateurish error with Schofield. The "amateurish error with Schofield" was not that he picked him (tho I thought that made no sense at all!) but that he gave him a guaranteed second year! Why? We owned the rights to Schofield! That was plain ridiculous....
Had he not done this egregiously foolish thing, he would have been able to trade UP rather than down w/ #37 & get Tillman (which Memphis did, using their #40 & a future R2 pick). IOW, the mistake turned out to be quite costly.
Even if Memphis had beaten him to that punch, he could at least have gotten more for the #37 than the #53 & a low pick 4 years from now -- e.g. 2 picks in the 40's of this year's draft.
We would have another prospect (one of the series of promising guys taken mid=R2 in this deep draft) plus Winston.