03-16-2022, 11:45 AM
(03-16-2022, 11:17 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: I actually have come to like and respect Fischer in the last year or so. He’s got sauces and is right more often than most in the pre-event reporting he does.
There was some controversy around here as to whether Dallas was to send or receive a pick from Toronto. Fischer was the reason some thought we were receiving the pick. But, if you listened closely to JF at the time, he was making a leap of faith even then. 1. Toronto was shopping Dragic and a pick around the league plus 2. Dallas and Toronto were close to a deal equals 3. Dallas must have been receiving the pick. I heard him on multiple podcasts at the time and he never conclusively said that…just inferred it. Now, as you say, he’s even less clear as to what was actually on the table.
My opinion is an always has been that Dallas would have jumped at Dragic plus a pick if it was as simple as that. Therefore, it wasn’t as simple as that.
To be fair, I would say that my respect for Fischer is higher than it was around this time last year but now lower than it was at the trade deadline. I just think that a decent amount of us here were treating him as if he was reliable as Shams or Woj or even Stein and he's just not there yet. On top of that he tweeted this right after the Wiz trade:
https://twitter.com/JakeLFischer/status/...85090?s=20
It can be interpreted a lot of different ways but to me it felt like he was doubling down on the idea that Toronto offered us a first after people were kind of up in arms about it which he's slowly kind of walked back since then. Just felt a little irresponsible on his part is all, especially considering places like the Ringer kind of ran with that reporting.