09-24-2020, 01:30 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-24-2020, 01:34 PM by KillerLeft.)
(09-24-2020, 01:00 PM)Kammrath Wrote:(09-24-2020, 08:23 AM)StepBackJay Wrote: It was a pretty awful trade.
It wasn't at all IMO. Barnes was ballast and I do not know where or how the Mavs could have gotten a better deal. Just because SAC saved face and gave him a big deal doesn't mean he is a good player.
HB was -2.6 on/off last year, and that is hard to do when you are on a TERRIBLE team. He was even worse than the other terrible players on a terrible team.
Especially since for any team NOT willing to give him that contract, which I assume would be most teams, he would have been a rental.
How the player and agent see their situation and what they're looking for contractually probably inform a guy's trade value significantly. To Sacramento he was valuable, so I guess you could make the case that Dallas could've wrangled more away from them, but they didn't want salary coming back, and it seems like a pretty big leap to assume there would've been some kind of bidding war for him from other teams.
I think it's VERY understandable how that offer was the best they could get. They couldn't get Kemba with the room, so you can't call it a home run, but I don't think it's a negative, really.