TDL Archived: The 2nd Rnd Pick Yankee Swap

[DanSchwartzgan]

Not a fan? 

I admit I'm not familiar with his game, but fans in both ATL and NY seem to think he has deserved more opportunity than he has gotten. I think he's a reasonably good stab a low risk, high reward, scoring wing. But again, I'm not super familiar with him.

I’d like to amend my answer a bit.  I spent a little time digging into Reddish and could see him being a decent buy-low candidate.  I still want something more from NY if the deal is for Reggie, but the something more doesn’t need to be as valuable as my previous post suggested.  If the offer was Reddish/Sims for Reggie, I’d probably do it.

BTW, is Reggie playing to stay lately or playing to show the league he’s still got some O in him?  This kind of move is predicated on the idea that we aren’t going to the finals this year.  Josh can do anything Reggie can do in those minutes (and more), so the loss of Reggie isn’t monstrous.  The question is how do you replace Josh off the bench.  That would be a loss.  We’d have Hardy, Cam and Frank to soak up minutes.

I think Luka could turn Sims into quite the PnR roller.  He can rebound, has a live body and more size than Powell.  We could REALLY use another big right now.  As to Reddish, his numbers are actually decent the few times he’s gotten minutes.  Look at his splits when he gets 30+ this season.  It is only 9 games, but his TS% and 3% are great.  He SUCKS when he gets spot minutes.  The year before is similar.  Take out one bad game and he shot it well when he got 27+.  Give him a solid role the rest of the season and he might be a good bench scorer or a helpful trade piece not too far down the road.  It isn’t like Reggie is some indispensable young dude who is locked up for years to come.  Give me two kids and unlock Josh a bit more and I’d be for this.  

BTW, I agree that this is outside Cuban’s usual in-season pattern.  But, this team needs more dynamic athletes.  This kind of move isn’t sure-fire by any means.  But, you’ve only got Reggie locked up for one more year anyway.