02-26-2021, 02:03 PM
(02-26-2021, 01:57 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: I was in the exact same boat as you with the Curry trade when it happened. I wasn't sold instantly on JRich. Obviously he hasn't been the clear cut better player at all. In fact a slight downgrade. But I'm also trying to be fair and recognize that the team looks broken in a bunch of places now that could be causing JRich to look quite worse.
With that said, I'm fully prepared to admit that trade was a failure when the time comes because how does one just give away Curry like that.
And the fact we passed up S.Bey.....ugh. Still hurts. Need bourbon.
Curry has elite skills but is more one dimensional, JRich is probably a more well rounded player when you account for defense but I don't think he's show anything elite. I'll take an elite skill over a jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none any day. JRich is also expiring and will probably cost more to retain than Curry's very reasonable contract. At the very least, they should have extracted more value from the trade based on the contracts alone. Curry also wanted to be here given that he signed with the team twice and we should never take that for granted.