If you arent trading vets who are essentially on expiring deals then you arent tanking IMO. I think if there was tanking playbook, trading vets on expiring deals (regardless of return) would be high up on the priority list.
I know… that’s why I said DA is value based. We wanted the pick… there are multiple motivations at play.
KO has an option… JC may be part of the future. It is a spectrum… there’s no way you can tell me we are a 5 when in the last 12 months we’ve traded 3 all stars, 2 starters, for young players, a mid vet, and 9 first round picks. The young players ended up exceeding everyone’s expectations by a lot and that is why the rebuild feels soft.
I’m old enough to remember when a bunch of posters lol’d me for saying the Ingles deal was primarily about money… and argued with Jazz insiders about it and they told me NAW would be in the rotation immediately and he was basically a lotto talent and money wasn’t even a consideration lol… how cynical… DA and JZ said it was about NAW and how dare you think you know better. 12 M lol why would Ryan care about that lolz.
Look we aren’t tanking the eff outta this B but we are tanking some of the effs out of it.
Yeah I hear ya. Hard to understand Danny’s thought process on this one cause no question we improved Minny and LA with the idea of slowing our own roll. But we provided four good players and three second rounders for a headache named Westbrook two end of bench guys and one first that automatically conveys to a second. Westbrook is a headache because nobody’s going to be willing to pay even half of what he’s owed so we’re stuck with the bill AND now we have to come up with excuses not to play him without incurring the wrath of Adam Silver for overt tanking.
