The 2022 Trade Idea Thread, now with more urgency!

Its why you utilize the draft and trades.

If you have a non-winning, overpaid roster you trade it for players with upside who can play and/or picks to mix up the staleness. You don’t unload 2 starting quality players for 2 guys who likely aren’t in the future plans and a C-list prospect.

 

Getting Smith doesn't make sense now.

 

Is our tanking team complete now?

 

who saidwe are tanking? lol

 

Holy Shit!

 

yeah, because PHX declines he is a UFA this offseason

 

Pencils down

 

And that’s a wrap

 

you got duped by a fake account.

 

Yes I did. Damn it!

 

Double duped. Duped by Chad Ford who got duped. I perpetuated it. Putting myself in the corner for a timeout.

 

I don't....I care more about getting that Pels draft pick than Morey's ego

 

Great….deadline over

 

The Blazers traded two highly paid starting quality but not championship players) for the ability to retain the prospect they do value (Simons) going forward - because the organization would not have been able to sign him going forward otherwise. The only difference between what happened and what you identified as a need is that the prospect was already on the roster.

In other words, the organization believes that with opportunity, the prospect they would have lost would provide the production of the assets that were lost.

The reasonable business equation to make is not Roco + Powell > Keon Johnson which is what is happening this year, but ask if Roco + Powell > Simon + Roco - because next year, if the trade was not made, the Blazers would lose Roco anyway and not be able to sign Simons. So, basically, since we can eliminate Roco from both sides of the equation - the question was - is Powel > Simons. Obviously the organization did not think so.

You can argue that better options were available - and maybe they were and maybe they were not - I certainly do not have the data to back this assertion - but your basic formula to asses the trade in a vacuum is not right.

 

I’m waiting for Woj to say we were the real winners of the deadline by throwing darts at young guys and opening up cap space so no one good can sign here.

 

Comfortability?

 

Intriguing ... the Blazers had interest, correct? Is there some connection perhaps with the Blazers and Pacers FOs? Smith would be a guy fitting where the Blazers currently have nothing.