(02-10-2022, 03:45 PM)dirkfansince1998 Wrote: Desperately hope that people aren´t reading it. These aren´t even the worst takes. Just taken from your first post.
if you traded KP for a bag of magic beans (projects and draft picks) like many folks wanted to this offseason. The Grizzlies game would be the best case every night.
Mavs are 13-8 without KP. 9-3 since the health and safety protocol. Not exactly what you tried to sell us.
It looks bad now, but we are in a better place now, than if we would have traded KP this summer. Even with the injury, his trade value is more now than it was then.
That worked out briliiantly. Just like in the thread you never answered the question when the Mavs should have made a decision. I guess at some point KP´s contract would have expired.
I stand by what I said and still nowhere there did I guarantee value. I said you hold him until you can get better value is the better play...this team isn't better right now. And honestly, his value was even lower than now last summer. You would have gotten less in the summer...and it's abyssmal now....which goes to the point about the thread.
You were better off sticking with him and gambling that he would get better and you could trade him on the upswing. That didn't work out and me personallly, I would have stuck with him because you are going to be playing these goomers longer than you would be playing KP. Bertans is a year longer and Dinwiddie's contract is the same length. Granted it's only partially guaranteed in two seasons, but you are paying the same money for guys with injury concerns who's availability is arguably the same, who produce less and neither defend well.
So you basically have the same problems...the same issues, but none of the possible benefits that you had with KP.
KP for 60% of the games may very well be better than SD and DB for 70% which is about the same. DB has played the exact number of games that KP has played...so all the problems, none of the upside.
Like I said in that thread, it's better to hold on hoping he can up his value, and if you can't up the value, then play it out. I'll be waiting for Jake Fischer, who tweeted that there were options on the table besides Bertans and SD, to say what they were... Man, fi they at least got a defensive center like Holmes for him....but Bertans is Nico Melli 2.0...who allegedly can shoot, because he's got the same problem as KP with his shot right now.
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