TDL Archived: The 2nd Rnd Pick Yankee Swap

[DanSchwartzgan]

Personally I support the direct opposite. Try to get the max amount of value in return now that they are looking like halfway useful rotation pieces. I am all in on the future. Don´t really care about the end of the season (and honestly don´t think losing them would make a big difference). Try to move on from role players on the wrong side of 30. Retool and reset the age and salary structure of the team.

The one thing I don´t want to see is another half-hearted attempt to turn the season around with a deadline trade. Something like the Redick trade. They have to make a choice. Pick a direction. Either all in on win now. Or sell with a clear focus on assets and young talent.
Inability to make that choice has been a constant problem over the last couple of seasons. Delaying crucial decisions (contract extensions, trades). Waiting for opportunities that may or may not arrive instead of actively trying to improve the roster.

Hopefully, the smartest man in the room knows to zig when others are zagging.  I’m fine with being a seller if the player being sold isn’t right for the team.  It makes sense to me that THJ would be on the block.  We didn’t have him last season and went on a run to the WCF’s.  We have four O-Only guys in the starting lineup if we are starting Luka, SD, THJ and Wood.  That is unbalanced. We have promising youngsters ready for more playing time behind him and gaping holes in other places.

THJ isn’t worthless.  I said all summer that trading him then was a bad idea.  But, he’s reestablished value and I don’t have any issue if they can do something that improves us longer term.  I agree that I’m not interesting in lipstick for this pig.  But, I don’t think moving Green into the starting lineup hurts current competitiveness at all.  The question is how you fill holes elsewhere with what you’d get for THJ.