01-05-2021, 06:27 PM
We went over this during the off-season.
1) Oladipo wants to get PAID.
2) Indiana isn’t willing (so far) to give up Oladipo for “rental who might not be as good anymore” price. I haven’t spoken with anyone who works there, obviously, but logic dictates that if they were, he’d have moved by now.
3) He/They tried to find a deal with a team who’d PAY him, AND pay the team the asset price they’re asking for the privilege.
4) Because teams were skeptical about his very serious injury (underplayed here routinely) and the fact that he hadn’t played well at all in the limited time since he’d returned, no such trade partner could be found.
5) Rather than reduce the trade ask to “risky rental” price, resulting in a disappointing return for Indiana and possibly a transfer to somewhere Oladipo wasn’t interested in going, both parties agreed to start the season together, hoping he could play well enough to drum up some more interest from good teams. So far, so good on that.
I don’t see a scenario where a team trades for him without having an idea that they want to re-sign him AND that he wants to take their money, tbh, but I suppose we’ll see.
For the record, I concede that he looks GREAT right now, but I’m still out. The injury worries me so much, and I think this might be the textbook definition of “contract year” worry with the effort he’s giving. I could absolutely be wrong about that, obviously.
1) Oladipo wants to get PAID.
2) Indiana isn’t willing (so far) to give up Oladipo for “rental who might not be as good anymore” price. I haven’t spoken with anyone who works there, obviously, but logic dictates that if they were, he’d have moved by now.
3) He/They tried to find a deal with a team who’d PAY him, AND pay the team the asset price they’re asking for the privilege.
4) Because teams were skeptical about his very serious injury (underplayed here routinely) and the fact that he hadn’t played well at all in the limited time since he’d returned, no such trade partner could be found.
5) Rather than reduce the trade ask to “risky rental” price, resulting in a disappointing return for Indiana and possibly a transfer to somewhere Oladipo wasn’t interested in going, both parties agreed to start the season together, hoping he could play well enough to drum up some more interest from good teams. So far, so good on that.
I don’t see a scenario where a team trades for him without having an idea that they want to re-sign him AND that he wants to take their money, tbh, but I suppose we’ll see.
For the record, I concede that he looks GREAT right now, but I’m still out. The injury worries me so much, and I think this might be the textbook definition of “contract year” worry with the effort he’s giving. I could absolutely be wrong about that, obviously.