2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[Arioch]

That remains my biggest problem with this trade. The fact that the Wizards were more desperate than us and we didn’t stick to our guns and demand a FRP.  Picks..plural…matter.  Instead we not only did not get a FRP but gave up a 2nd round pick.

This is what I don't understand.  I understand not liking the deal. I understand thinking no deal would have been better than the deal that was made. I don't understand asserting there was a better deal to be made. How are the "Wizards more desperate than us"? By the time they made the deal, Beal had had season-ending surgery and they were sitting at 24-29 with a best case scenario of scraping into the 10th seed and getting bounced in the first play-in game. The remainder of the season is a clear write-off for them. If they didn't like the deal, they could just wait for the summer and hope to find a better deal then--or even come back to take the deal then since they knew no one else was looking to take Porzingis off our hands.

Dallas, on the other hand, will be a playoff team, and while I doubt anyone in the front office thinks they are an actual contender, I think they think they could win a series or two (worth millions to the franchise if so). If they didn't move KP now, they would *have to* play him which a) they don't seem to have wanted to do, and b) risk that final injury that tanked his value completely which they were apparently worried about.

If anything, what may have made the deal possible (given no other team seems to have been interested in gambling on KP) was the fact that the Wizards were *not* desparate and felt comfortable making Dallas a take it or leave it offer.