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

[mvossman]

Well it´s not like you do anything different, you just don´t see it. I´m merely pointing out scenarios you don´t even consider. You said well we got the guy we wanted at #37 anyway, so there is no loss. Of course there is a loss.We had to give up a 1st round pick and two future 2nd round picks to get Wood and Hardy at#37. If Wood walks for nothing in 12 months, what did we accomplish? Yeah I think the move was absolutely justifiable in the moment, but you can´t always make moves without already thinking 2-3 steps ahead.

You trade for Noel and give up future assets in the process. First thing you do is bench him immediately. Second thing you do is have your head coach tell him through the press that Dalembert will start over him. Goddamn Sleepy Sammy. So yes the trade itself was good, but if you have no overall plan, then it´s still a bad trade with the benefit of hindsight.

Same as extending THJ was a bad decision on itself (imho), but it becomes catastrophic, if it becomes part of the reason, you botch the extend Brunson.

Also what happened to "two smaller contracts" are easier to trade than a big contract. So which contract is easier to move right now. Bertans 51/3 or Porzingis 70/2. And that´s before we even get into the discussion that only a complete moron would have offered Porzingis the full five year max with a player option. With a professional front office that contract is expiring this season already.

And I think we are FAR beyond the point where Cuban gets any benefit of the doubt for the moves. 

Same as drafting Koloko might impact the decision to sign McGee. Though with this franchise it probably does not.

You are misquoting me.  I did not use the Hardy pick as an argument for the Wood trade in hindsight.  Killer wanted to know what would have been behind the non trade door and I merely suggested that it would probably be the Hardy pick (an assertion you probably agree with).

You are agreeing that the move was justifiable at the time, and we still don't know the end result anyways.  For all of the fuckups this franchise has made that we can bitch about, the Wood trade should be near the bottom of the list.

The McGee signing (which I hated from the beginning) was about veteran leadership and a known quantity taking some wear and tear off the big rotation (which has failed miserably).  That is not a position you can fill with a second round big project.