You know it! Those 2 first rounders would be the next coming of Jimmy Butler and Larry Bird!
I mean, do you not think it would have been nice to have kept one of those firsts to facilitate another trade? Guys that could help us will inevitably always become available (see: Kanter, Enes), and having the assets to obtain them is never a bad thing.
I'm not saying I dislike Mozgov, because obviously his contributions to our team have been huge. I am saying that it would have been nice if we could have gotten him for one pick instead of two and had the other one to toss around in another trade to further improve our team. Packaging a pick with Haywood could have brought us back a pretty solid player.
Technically it is one pick instead of 2.. I mean it's Dion Waiters, Alex Kirk, Lou Amundson, a second round out., a first round out with Iman, Smith, Mosgov, and a second round pick in
The Waiters trade happened on Jan 7th, the Mosgov trade happened on Jan 8th
Would it have been better if you saw
Cavs have a four team trade with OKC, NY and Denver
Cavs got Mosgov, Iman, Smith, and a second round pick
OKC got Waiters
NY got Kirk, Amundson, Lance Thomas, a second round pick and 2 trade exceptions
Denver got 2 heavily protected first round picks, one from Cleveland and one from OKC
Well yeah but the fact remains that after the Waiters trade we had two first rounders and traded both...that fact isn't changed by the fact that one of the first rounders was just acquired.
But yeah
They trade two heavily protected picks for a starting Center to make a championship run.
This guy is the real deal.
What the hell were they doing in Denver? If Im one of their fans I'm asking management what the hell is going on there.
I mean, do you not think it would have been nice to have kept one of those firsts to facilitate another trade? Guys that could help us will inevitably always become available (see: Kanter, Enes), and having the assets to obtain them is never a bad thing.
I'm not saying I dislike Mozgov, because obviously his contributions to our team have been huge. I am saying that it would have been nice if we could have gotten him for one pick instead of two and had the other one to toss around in another trade to further improve our team. Packaging a pick with Haywood could have brought us back a pretty solid player.
He's worth two late round firsts. I say that as someone who was very bummed out about giving up two firsts. If you went back through the last five drafts, I believe you'd be hard pressed to find more than a couple Centers that contributed in years 1-2 at the level Moz is right now.
He's a very, very good player once defense is taken into consideration.
I think the mistake that many people are making is in the assumption that we would have used whichever pick we kept to actually draft someone. I just think it would have been nice to have an additional asset to toss around in a trade, either at the deadline or this summer.
Somebody call Denver and ask if they want another first.