THE CRUCIFIX: Cato: Wood isn't thrilled w/ his role...Will depart in the summer

[mvossman]

On the other hand you could also have traded down from 26, maybe acquired 33+37 and picked Hardy + Koloko/Nembhard, who all look pretty good. There is definitely a strong case to be made, that the strategy was poor again, if the end result is Wood walking for nothing.

Koloko is probably better than McGee already. You don´t have to give up future assets. Maybe you use the full exception to sign Jalen Smith. Smith is averaging 11/7 compared to Wood at 16/8.

I think there is a strong case to be made that Koloko, Smith plus two future second round picks (you get to keep) is a superior outcome to Wood/McGee minus a first round pick.

You can look at just about any move a franchise makes and cherry pick some other option in hindsight and say the original move sucked.  Its that kind of thinking that makes someone always angry.

And I have no idea why we are bringing McGee into this?  No doubt that was a fail, but the conversation is around the Wood trade.