Trade Deadline Reactions and Buyout Market Thread

Sofia · Post #61 » by **Sofia** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 12:50 am

Dr Aki wrote:Petition to have this image in OP

Denied. He’s not even as good as Harden offensively.

OkcSinceSGA · Post #62 » by **OkcSinceSGA** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 1:08 am

When teams are positioning for Norman freaking Powell and Andre Drummond you know this is a weak ass trade market

Buzzard · Post #63 » by **Buzzard** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 1:24 am

ClipsFanSince98 wrote:When teams are positioning for Norman freaking Powell and Andre Drummond you know this is a weak ass trade market

That is my take also. A whole lot of smoke to get the clicks; but not a lot of important/good players to be moved. Usually smoke means fire to me. I think its mostly the pundits looking for clicks this season.

HardenToSixers · Post #64 » by **HardenToSixers** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 1:27 am

Beethoven wrote:
walk with me wrote:Was waiting for this...

I hope this isn’t one of those years where the deadline will pass and nothing happens. If the season sucks atleast let the deadline be exciting lol.

Lot of big trades happened this season: Harden, Oladipo, Blake Griffin, etc

That’s basically one transaction and then a buyout of a washed up player that wasn’t big nor a trade...

Inspektor1312 · Post #65 » by **Inspektor1312** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 1:29 am

walk with me wrote:Was waiting for this...

I hope this isn’t one of those years where the deadline will pass and nothing happens. If the season sucks atleast let the deadline be exciting lol.

Why does the season suck? It's been quite entertaining for me

HardenToSixers · Post #66 » by **HardenToSixers** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 1:30 am

RaptorPride wrote:

Read on Twitter

Wow he might even fetch an early second at this rate

Beethoven · Post #67 » by **Beethoven** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 1:32 am

HardenToSixers wrote:
Beethoven wrote:
walk with me wrote:Was waiting for this...

I hope this isn’t one of those years where the deadline will pass and nothing happens. If the season sucks atleast let the deadline be exciting lol.

Lot of big trades happened this season: Harden, Oladipo, Blake Griffin, etc

That’s basically one transaction and then a buyout of a washed up player that wasn’t big nor a trade...

Ok then. There is kabengele.

RaptorPride · Post #68 » by **RaptorPride** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 1:37 am

HardenToSixers wrote:
RaptorPride wrote:

Read on Twitter

Wow he might even fetch an early second at this rate

Maybe even Harden or Butler

Buzzard · Post #69 » by **Buzzard** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 1:48 am

Inspektor1312 wrote:
walk with me wrote:Was waiting for this...

I hope this isn’t one of those years where the deadline will pass and nothing happens. If the season sucks atleast let the deadline be exciting lol.

Why does the season suck? It's been quite entertaining for me

I have enjoyed it as well. Other than the short lived interest in Ball by the Hawks, none of the Hawks rumors have closely got me excited.

tugs · Post #70 » by **tugs** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 1:49 am

RaptorPride wrote:

Read on Twitter

Why though? Noel and Robinson have been doing an admirable job at the 5. Drummond will just clog the paint making it harder for Randle to operate

Buzzard · Post #71 » by **Buzzard** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 1:53 am

tugs wrote:
RaptorPride wrote:

Read on Twitter
Why though? Noel and Robinson have been doing an admirable job at the 5. Drummond will just clog the paint making it harder for Randle to operate

That is what 1/3 of the board said about Collins and Capela. The improvement of team defense and team rebounding metrics cannot be denied. I imagine the Knicks are hoping for a similar result.

Soulyss · Post #72 » by **Soulyss** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 1:59 am

HardenToSixers wrote:
RaptorPride wrote:

Read on Twitter

Wow he might even fetch an early second at this rate

Says Toronto to get the price up...

Pointgod · Post #73 » by **Pointgod** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 2:25 am

tugs wrote:
RaptorPride wrote:

Read on Twitter
Why though? Noel and Robinson have been doing an admirable job at the 5. Drummond will just clog the paint making it harder for Randle to operate

The Knicks are focused on the playoffs. At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if they got Drummond for free. It’s a end of season rental that shores up the centre position and I imagine they could trade Noel or give him the back up PF minutes

Jabroni Lames · Post #74 » by **Jabroni Lames** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 2:33 am

Duke4life831 wrote:So now rumors are the Pels might use Ball to help salary dump Bledsoe or Adams.

Im sorry but Griffin needs to go, he is garbage. Just this offseason he used a 1st round pick to get Adams and then gave him an extension without him playing a single game with Zion. And now 40 games in he is looking for ways to salary dump him?

And when it comes to Bledsoe, if moving Bledsoe means hurting the return for Ball or using picks, that just means the trade from Milwaukee isnt as good as first thought, if they have to use assets to dump Bledsoe.

And the thing is, both Adams and Bledsoe were obvious bad fits. Everyone could see that coming from a mile away.

Trading DeAndre Hunter for 2 bench players(Hayes & NAW) was also a fireable offence.

Swish1906 · Post #75 » by **Swish1906** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 2:34 am

Yeah, Ainge is finally going to do something. But just because he likes keeping his job more than his desire "must rip off other team"

aminiaturebuddha · Post #76 » by **aminiaturebuddha** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 2:42 am

Buzzard wrote:
tugs wrote:
RaptorPride wrote:

Read on Twitter
Why though? Noel and Robinson have been doing an admirable job at the 5. Drummond will just clog the paint making it harder for Randle to operate

That is what 1/3 of the board said about Collins and Capela. The improvement of team defense and team rebounding metrics cannot be denied. I imagine the Knicks are hoping for a similar result.

Except that Drummond isn't nearly the defender that Capela is. He's a great rebounder, for sure, but his team defence has never been as good as what he should be capable of given his athletic skills.

Post #77 » by **Duke4life831** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 2:44 am

Jabroni Lames wrote:
Duke4life831 wrote:So now rumors are the Pels might use Ball to help salary dump Bledsoe or Adams.

Im sorry but Griffin needs to go, he is garbage. Just this offseason he used a 1st round pick to get Adams and then gave him an extension without him playing a single game with Zion. And now 40 games in he is looking for ways to salary dump him?

And when it comes to Bledsoe, if moving Bledsoe means hurting the return for Ball or using picks, that just means the trade from Milwaukee isnt as good as first thought, if they have to use assets to dump Bledsoe.

And the thing is, both Adams and Bledsoe were obvious bad fits. Everyone could see that coming from a mile away.

Trading DeAndre Hunter for 2 bench players(Hayes & NAW) was also a fireable offence.

Ya its a pretty hard pill to swallow trading the #4 which ended up being Hunter to get those two. Then taking NAW at 17 with Brandon Clarke still available. Im sure almost every GM would rather have Hunter over those two, or Clarke over those two. So you trade out from taking a good player, then screw up on your two picks you traded down to get. Its bad move after bad move for Griffin so far.

Oscirus · Post #78 » by **Oscirus** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 2:54 am

The pelicans have 10 million firsts,they cant use one of them to offload one of those contracts?

RaptorPride · Post #79 » by **RaptorPride** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 3:01 am

mg · Post #80 » by mg » Thu Mar 25, 2021 3:09 am

I tried to tell everyone that Griffin was a terrible GM. In Cleveland he benefitted from all the draft picks that Chris Grant acquired and then backstabbed Grant to take his job. Then Lebron comes back and Griffin deals all those FRP's for mediocre roleplayers like JR, Shumpert, Korver and Mozgov. At least now people are seeing that he is a blowhard and has no idea how to evaluate talent or put a team together. Trading out of that 4th pick was a huge mistake. Acquiring talent like Adams and Bledsoe who obviously don't fit was another mistake and then he compounds it by giving Adams that extension. Giving a big contract to a washed up vet like Redick was another waste of money.