03-25-2021, 09:47 AM
(03-25-2021, 09:41 AM)mvossman Wrote: I don't see this pattern, at least not in the last 4 years. The Wright signing was a miss, mostly due to fit. The Curry signing more than made up for it. It is very difficult for a non coast team to acquire assets through free agency. The primary reason for our lack of assets is that we traded all of them to land our supper star and his sidekick. When you realize in the last 4 years we went from a tanking team without any real player assets, to a playoff team on the rise, all from a #5 two #9s and future middling firsts. Obviously they did something right.
The Barnes trade was necessary at the time. He was a net negative on offense and was curbing Luka's growth. Years later, after signing a large contract, he finally learned how to be a non ball stopping 3&D player, but there was no hint of that happening when he was here.
They did drop the ball the following free agency by leaving cap on the table. They have not been perfect. But over the last 4 years I would say the pattern has been more positive than negative.
IMHO, people get so consumed about "winning" meaningless trades that ultimately don't move the franchise needle and lose track of the ultimate big picture. Not helped by the fact that he entertainment value of the modern NBA is more about obsessively following player transactions than the actual on court product (see TV Ratings).