TDL Archived: The 2nd Rnd Pick Yankee Swap

[DanSchwartzgan]

Agree on all.  DR doesn't seem that different to me than Bertans, in both play and contract.  I'm struggling to see how adding another terrible long term contract for a guy that gets less than 10 minutes a game for a middling first is a good long term direction to take.  I don't really see any way this happens.  Teams in the tax don't take on bad contracts for picks, and Cuban doesn't opperate this way even when he has cap space available.

If all this is is a straight up deal, I’d agree with you.  My assumption is Miami would pay at least their 2023 pick in such a deal.  Having that as a chip now or in the summer is a game changer.  It isn’t only about DR vs. THJ (and paying an extra year).  It is about the other things getting a pick could unlock.

I also think too much is made of DR’s current season and not enough of his total body of work.  Very few of us thought Dinwiddie would contribute anything here because most here had a myopic view of who he was based on what he was producing in DC.  Turns out a change of scenery and playing with Luka changed his efficiency pretty dramatically.  It isn’t hard to look at DR’s recent history and project the same thing as we could looking back at Dinwiddie’s pre-injury season in Brooklyn.  Will DR ever become a good defender…no.  But Tim hasn’t been anything special historically either.  I think the two players would be roughly equivalent here and Miami would have to pay something for us to eat the extra year of what turned out to be bloated contracts for both players.