10-24-2023, 05:42 PM
(10-24-2023, 05:25 PM)omahen Wrote: 2027 is far from last great trade asset this team has. As soon as in the summer, Mavs will have another 2 FRP to trade, all their guys on rookie deals and Green. Plenty of assets going forward.
Yeah, we just disagree. I shouldn't have said anything.
Trading ANY pick for a player who probably won't still be here, playing for the Mavs, when the pick is made, is bad practice. IQ is young enough to hope he'd still be here, so that makes it better than most ideas I've seen, but I feel like the odds are that he wouldn't be here that long, the way the league works.
Trading a pick that basically has to be UNPROTECTED and will happen right around the time it's highly possible your team will be starting over is even worse. I don't agree that that asset is the same or worse as a pick that can be top 10 or top 15 (or even top 2) protected and I don't agree that it's the same or worse as a guy on his rookie contract unless that guy is Luka, Wemenyama or someone damn close to that ilk. You might actually be trading a guy like that away. I've read all the arguments from bored fans who just want to see more deals, and I don't agree with them. The potential of that pick, even if it's just to be included in an actual difference making trade (IQ isn't that, though I do like him) is something I'm not dying to use at the moment.