05-12-2021, 06:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-12-2021, 06:49 PM by KillerLeft.)
(05-12-2021, 03:30 PM)F Gump Wrote: Too many here are advocating to "take whatever offer you get, and move on" based on the belief that KP has no NBA value, to the Mavs or anyone else, and they have to hope for a taker. In their mind, any return is a good deal.
That's just absurd.
If you decide you want to move him, you only get great value when you demand great value. And to some team, perhaps quite a few, a KP who might be ill-fitting in Dallas could be the piece they feel they have been waiting for. Tease, talk, dangle, bargain, let buyers figure out how much better KP will be on their team, let them compete to meet your price and more. The mindset should be to "negotiate for a good deal" and refuse to settle for less. Unicorns are expensive, EVERYONE knows that and starts with that mindset, and you're an idiot if you have a unicorn and only ask for scraps.
I'd equate it at the very least to the trades the Mavs made to move Antoine Walker and Antwan Jamison years ago. They were very talented players, who didn't fit. The Mavs looked for a return commensurate to how other teams valued those players, and they got it, rather than one based on the clunky fit in Dallas. They certainly didn't take "whatever they could get."
This rebuttal paints an extremely inaccurate picture of where I am with this.
I am not suggesting they "take what they can get." I am suggesting that his worth is what it is. I hope it's close to what you believe it might be, and I absolutely agree that the team should try to get as much as possible in return, should they trade him. But, I won't be shocked he's not worth what you'd want. Either way, a bad investment is a bad investment. Surely, nobody here believes the Mavs have gotten their money's worth out of this KP thing, so far.
I haven't completely made up my mind yet, but with each passing day I'm less and less convinced that Porzingis is even a good player, to be completely honest. The injuries, alone, are enough to make him far less valuable than some people insist, but it's more than that. I don't respect his game much - at least not what we've seen here in two years. Not enough defense to play center, not enough foot speed or coordination to play anywhere else. I LOVE the idea of pulling opposing bigs out of the paint, but he doesn't seem to have any kind of counter to punish teams for sticking forwards on him. People talk about how "mobile he is for a big man," but he's not even the most mobile 7-footer on the team, imo.