spikeslovechild wrote:TTP wrote:spikeslovechild wrote:Then you don't move him. Beverly is worth at best a mid first round pick. I'm sorry but I know Okafor sucked so far but I'm not willing to go from what BOS was rumored to have offered which was what turned out to be the 3rd round pick and could have been much more. To Patrick freakin Beverly because of 15 **** games.
There's no actual evidence that anyone offered the third overall pick for Okafor and I'd be shocked if it ever happened. If you think Okafor's value will only get worse (as I do), it makes sense to take what you can get for him sooner rather than later.
You underrate Beverley a lot though. He's on one of the best contracts in the league - a 3 for 16.5 mil declining deal. As someone who valued financial freedom so highly when discussing the implications of a Noel extension versus waiting two years for someone like WCS, I would expect you to value a player like Beverley a lot, who costs close to nothing over the next two seasons.
His skillset is also malleable and should fit well in a lot of different lineups, even moreso if we end up drafting Fultz, Smith, or Jackson.
I'm not opposed to Beverly contract or the player. I am opposed to trading Okafor or Noel for him. I think they are worth more. In Okafor case we don;t even save money.
I also think Bayless while a notch below will serve the same role for us after we find some starting caliber guards. It's interesting you mention Covington because he's a guy who if he was playing well likely would have been moved. He still will prob be moved. Penciling him longterm is a mistake.
More to the point moving beyond contracts I don't think we are at the point where these kind of deals make sense. We are still in the asset collection phase of the process trying to collect talent to surround Embiid and Simmons. We are multiple years away from that reality being realized. You don't get there by trading Okafor for Beverly. You don't even do it by trading Noel for Beverly who has to be moved this year.
You trade for young players and first round picks. Then you pull the deal if you have the pieces already in place. For example if the Cavs needed a PG I could see them trading one of their prospects (if they had one of the caliber of Okafor/Noel). Or the GSW. We aren't in the same situation. We aren't a Patrick Beverly away from contending.
Yeah I don't agree with this. We have plenty of assets and I don't see the point of trading someone like Covington away. He's grown with the team for 2 years and he's developing on court chemistry with Embiid, especially on the defensive end, as well as off court chemistry. We want to acquire optimal players to place around Embiid and Simmons and have them grow together and Covington fits into that.
We don't want to be sacrificing wins for a better draft pick now that we have Embiid/Simmons. We want their confidence and morale to be as high as possible. Okafor is hindering the team now - he's blocking Holmes and he's decreasing our team's winrate with every minute he plays. It's not like we're sacrificing the future by trading him, especially because I believe he'll be worth significantly less a year from now. If I can trade Okafor for Beverley - who will make Embiid, Simmons, and the rest of the team better - I absolutely pull the trigger. There are younger players I'm interested in as well that I've mentioned countless times (Baldwin, McCaw, Powell, Wright, RHJ, Hezonja), but that doesn't mean I'm not interested in a great fit like Beverley just because he's 28.
Just because it makes sense for the Cavs or GSW to do it, doesn't mean it doesn't make sense for us to do it. I understand success cycles better than you think.
Also it's crazy to think Okafor is worth more than Beverley and that you think you'll be able to get more value in the future by just holding out. He's been completely atrocious and every minute he plays moves him further from potential and more towards bust. There's been no indication that he's going to turn it around.