Celts17Pride wrote:Giannis is stringing this alone to put pressure on the Bucks front office. Giannis is staying in Milwaukee.
Also, this idea that Giannis could be traded gives more value to the Bucks future first round pick that they can trade. If teams think that Giannis might leave, that future 1st unprotected could be a top pick that a team wants to get control of. The Bucks have employed this strategy in the past to be able to make big trades with picks that no one around the NBA thought they had enough assets to pull off. Not a single person thought the Bucks had the assets to trade for Dame. The media also didn't think the Bucks would be able to make the move for Jrue Holiday, just saying that Giannis needed to leave after the playoff failures of Eric Bledsoe and there wasn't an avenue for the team to get better.
Additionally, as I've said in the other threads, the packages from Houston and SAS just aren't good. The players they are offering are legit not that good. SAS want to offer all their non Fox/Wemby pieces and act like its something, that grouping WITH Wemby is a dogcrap lotto squad, so trying to pitch Milwaukee that dudes like KJ, Vassell, Sochan are useful pieces for Milwaukee is hilarious. Those dudes literally cannot even win games with Wemby on their team, and they are gonna come to Milwaukee with worse talent and worse coaching around them and do anything but absolutely suck? The #2 pick is fools gold in this draft, it's a 1 player draft, #2 might as well be #7, same exact quality of player in either spot. It's not a bad asset obviously, but it's also not centerpiece of a Giannis trade level of asset.
Houston's offer is utter trash. Both Thompson and Sengun are fools gold players as the centerpiece in a Giannis trade. Amen is a nice piece for a team, but he is being MASSIVELY overrated. Not since Luol Deng was in year 2 has a young dude been so overhyped. Thompson's upside is a #3 on a contender, AND you will have to build the roster to compensate for him being an atrocious shooter. He's not going to be a top scorer with absolutely zero shooting ability whatsoever where even if he improves massively as a shooter, that will just make him maybe mediocre in that regard. Sengun is a total trap of a player. He's not good enough of a scorer to justify getting the usage he gets, but if he's not getting that usage what is the point of him on the court? A lot of Domantas Sabonis in Sengun, he's not a total scrub, but he's a super awkward fit anywhere and exceedingly hard to build a contending roster around him as a main piece (which is why Houston is willing to get rid of him for Giannis). Again, not close to a Giannis centerpiece.
If the Bucks trade Giannis they need 1 legit franchise potential piece coming back if the deal isn't also them regaining control of their own picks. Neither team can offer that.
