Because I was off base on one guy who signed a deal 3 years ago means no concept of trade value? What you have proven is you have your own agenda and once your mind is made up that's that. You still think the team who has air to show for a deal won the deal.
Cavs can help him with Allen on floor with him and/or Nance.
That's my concern for them in a Sexton/Love for Simmons deal. Sexton/Simmons might be a better fit together than being dealt for each other.
Help his own team do what? Win games? You guys are still in the "losses are good" phase aren't you?
nope...and if they are, guessing Altman and/or JB will be gone.
Interesting, time to shoot for the playoffs then?
Seems so. Some young, core pieces and finally get a draft pick inside where the top guys expected to go.
There is a blast from the past. I always liked that guy.
Yes. An undersized PF in the NBA that could hit the outside shot. before a lot of PF's were stretch 4's.
To your point, he would be a 4 with the Sixers mostly in his minutes with Embiid. He is likely to get taken off the dribble on a nightly basis by most NBA 4s. In order for a guy like that with issues on the defensive end to have value, he has to be giving you 17 and 10 a night. Those 10 boards will likely be a product of so many shots going up from his cover. My gut feel says the Sixers tried this before with a better player in Al Horford and it really was awful. I will note that Love is a better shooter than Horford so he would give better spacing for Embiid to work. But he gives that right back when you bring defense into the equation. Al is older but he is an experienced positional defender that can play team defense. I question Love’s ability to do that.
agree with all of that (though still young enough to become better than Middleton or Harris).....but guys right below elite players are valuable, too. Ideally, NBA teams would only pay elite players max or near max deals., but we know that's not how it works. Kyrie was and is that type of player, too. IF a team had another big guard and stud SF they could use Sexton and could go far with him.
Good point. I personally think that analysis on their end would be flawed. But who is to say that hoping doesn’t lead to a bad assessment. Maybe a CJ PG or CJ Holiday pairing would help get them over the hump into a true contender. But let’s also grant the idea that it would be rare for a team to shed their best player and then become a contender. The only circumstance I can think of was when OKC bailed on Westbrook. I think CP3 made them a better basketball team and that was without PG13 in their lineup. But they didn’t really rise to a “contender”. I’m still projecting that if Lillard forces out that the Blazers will be looking for a full reset and they’ll prioritize young pieces over 30 year old players. But again…just an opinion.
Damn. Another great point. Shit. Now let’s see if they still have to start Seth Curry. Love at 4 Harris at 3 Curry at 2. Damn. The offense can just pick their top 2 matchups among those three and run rough shod over the Sixers D. More plays for Embiid challenging which on the surface is good…until it tires him out for the offensive end or that fatigue increases the likelihood of injury for Captain Glass. If they have to take Love back to get talent for Simmons because his value really isn’t what they think then I hope Morey has a plan to send Love someplace for nearly anything. It’s addition by subtraction to make sure he’s not on the roster.
And there’s gonna be a defensive impact when a team parts with a guy like Simmons that can guard 1-5 and does so well enough to be 1st team All Defense. Teams that play top 5 statistical defense are generally the ones that win championships. Some exceptions to the rule but it’s better to play top defense than to not.
