01-12-2023, 04:53 PM
(01-12-2023, 04:46 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: Nobody wants to be the "loser" in a deal so no deal is being made.
Yeah, it has been trending this way for years. This new generation of GM's are total pansies, just trying to avoid mistakes, not trying to go for it. There are exceptions, but many of them end up looking like that Gobert trade and scare everyone else into inaction.
Love him or hate him, Donnie wasn't scared to draw up a trade on a napkin in which 5-7 players and hundreds of millions of dollars get swapped. The Van Exel/LaFrentz deal comes to mind, specifically. The days of those "gunslinger" gm's seem to be fading away.