03-26-2021, 02:02 PM
(03-26-2021, 12:59 PM)hakeemfaan Wrote: I had edited immediately as I knew someone would misunderstand. I can live with it if it is giving up a pick for at least the chance for a long term solution even if it does not work out. For eg Fournier. He might leave or might resign. But at least they target him as a long term piece. Here we are giving up a chip for a short term measure that is not really taking us to the next level.
I hear what you are saying, Hakeem. I just wonder if there was anything this chip could have used for in terms of a long-term measure that would have taken us to the next level. They tried to use it (as far as we know) on Evan Fournier/John Collins. It seems like this was really about the best thing they could have turned this particular asset into, unless you think actually making a pick in the 40's or 50's this year would have been better.
It seems like a lot of frustration over past decisions in other matters is coloring this particular transaction, but it seems to me that in this specific case, the chances that pick was going to turn into something better than Reddick seem pretty tiny. Maybe you disagree, and if so, I respect that.