Wallace is also injured a lot. I wanted Wallace, but his high number of missed games worried me. At a cost of RLEC and Outlaw, I was willing to take the risk. I don't know if I would if Batum were also part of the cost.
I would guess that it was Outlaw. The guy is well-liked by all his teammates and he is clutch for our team. Despite his defensive deficiencies, maybe they like the offensive spark he brings off the bench.
Tonight, KOIN was quoting KP as saying that PA didn't want to make a deal......that he wanted to "go to war" with the team we have. It is getting to the point nobody knows what to believe....which is probably the point.
What about Fyre? Of all the players he was one I wouldn't have mind seeing traded. He hasn't done much this year so he's the last one I'd think the coaches would want to keep, but who knows.
I thin kit's safe to say the reason Frye wasn't going to be traded is because like you, no one else around the league thinks he has done anything.
GM's lie. When you let assets like we had go unused, of course you're going to have to make up a backstory. If PA didn't want to make a deal and everyone in the front office was in general agreement, then we could have just been receivers of phone calls. Instead, KP was dialing like a telemarketer paid on commission.
It's not that there was a market for Blake; it's that he has a $4.25MM salary slot who could only be replaced in a deal by Outlaw or LMA, both of whom command more value than Blake. Think cap filler for a larger contract to obtain a better PG. Blake doesn't have huge market value, but his steadiness is highly valued by the coaching staff even though his upside is limited.
It's obviously Outlaw. Nate is so blindly loyal to that player it's not even funny. Despite the fact that Travis has one of the worst points-per-shot, adjusted field goal percentage and +/- stats on the team, he continues to average the fourth most minutes. Did I mention his ridiculously low rebounding output and the fact that he is probably one of our worst weak-side and help defenders? -Pop
What? We're on pace to improve by about 10 games per season, for 3 seasons, with those two. That is well into the "by much" category. This is a completely separate argument from whether or not they have improved since Roy and LMA got here.
I vote Outlaw too, becaue everybody in the locker room loves him and he helps bail us out in the 4th. I can't see anyone seriously demanding Blake, and supposedly Pritchard himself was dead set against trading Batum. And I really don't think Nate is in love with Sergio.
Well isn't that sort of the point of a trade? To bring back a small forward who would theoretically improve the production at that position? If you're asking it as a defense of Nate's decision to play him based on what we had available on our current roster, I would argue that Batum has certainly earned more time on the floor, especially during those long stretches where Travis is stinking up the joint. -Pop
