Even if we don’t want Martin I want him in the deal going to the 3rd team, just so Miami is unhappy about it.
That's all well and good from a spiteful fan standpoint but if they like Martin and that makes it so they have to give a second rounder to OKC to free up their first next year and we get that value instead then that is the prudent thing to do.
And Riley has always hated us. He even refused to play for us when he was a scrub out of Kentucky. F*** Riley.
Truth be told, Riley will be done in the next two years. This is his last opportunity to get one and his odds aren't great, even with Dame. He will be 80 in two years, Butler is not getting any younger and neither is Dame. They lost some meat off of their lucky finals run and the team has the same window as Riley. Two year run for all before the total rebuild. Riley has to get this right as much as we do. Hold out JOE!
Question: Pick from Brooklyn, 2025 Round 1 via Phoenix Does that mean the pick is based off of Brooklyn or Phoenix's regular season record? In other words, if you are traded that pick, do you want Brooklyn or Phonenix to suck?
I think that's Phoenix's pick they gave Brooklyn in the Durant trade. So we'd want Phoenix to suck if that's true.
Totally agree, but I don't think it's his fault. I think his bosses say "make up a stupid Dame trade for today's show, doesn't matter if it makes sense". And then the host points out that the trade doesn't make sense for both teams. Rinse, repeat the next day. Honestly, I feel bad for the guy.
OR "Draft the player with the highest ceiling", and then when it turns out Meyers Leonard sucks, they call the GM stupid.
Thank you for getting it. The heat Cronin is taking for not surrounding DL with big time FA's is NOTHING compared to the heat he would have taken, had he executed one of those trades based on what it would have cost the franchise to force that event. His job #1, is to elevate the franchise. It would have been "O" Scoots and Sharpes for a long.......long....time. I have zero doubt he tried. But there has to be a cost line drawn in the sand. Thank god he didn't cross it.
Not necessarily. I just think there's a world where you think Cronin failed living up to his own expectations but also doing the right thing by keeping the picks. I think both things are true.
Cronin has been GM for how long? He came trying to clean up a mess while keeping one player happy. That is thankfully about over and we get to see him and his team operate. Yes, trading Dame should have been the first thing he did, but he had an irrational fan base to deal with. I'm excited to see him unleashed.
So, he lied because the fans are children and he knows better? If I had something good to go off of, I'd be excited about Cronin. As of now, he's nothing but a yes man to me who got lucky with where his picks landed and having Mike Schmitz at his disposal. He hasn't won a trade yet that Dame didn't have influence on. I look forward to new ownership, and by default, a new front office.
If I was Joe Cronin and I was reading some of the shit that Heat fans are saying, I would never trade Dame to that team in a million years. Never. Who is their biggest rival? That’s where I’m trading him.
