Could we have gotten Love without trading Bennet?
I feel like Bennet has a huge upside in his game, I feel like he;s gonna be an allstar and we fucked it up :/
Giving Wiggins is fine, really fine but I feel like Bennet will shine t his season, maybe we could have offered a different deal
At the end of the day, having Kevin Love gives you the best chance to win a championship (maybe multiple championships) over Bennett and Wiggins. And that's all that matters.Cool,
After you have seen a slight glimpse of Blatt's Offense,
Don't you feel like Wiggins and Bennet could benefit off it?
I just love looking at guys develop especially when you feel like they could make it.. Bron as the floor general could have made it work..
Although Love spacing could make Varejao and Tristan better, I don't know I was really put off by this trade since I wanted the Cavs and Blatt to teach and form a new identity as a team and I did feel like they could make it without Love since Lebron is an in game coach and could make those rookies feel confident, Although I believe Lebron really wanted Love no matter what?
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Some part of me want Wiggins and Bennet to succeed but ther other part want them to play subpar and "fail"
M I bad ?
We sure as hell shouldn’t have given them 2 first rounders in that deal. If u think about it the cavs had all the leverage and just came out as plain desperate offering up that package. The warriors were just blowing smoke they weren’t ever going to give up Thompson anyway. The bulls didn’t have the pieces and if they did it wouldn’t make them any better by gutting their squad. The wolves had to trade love since they knew he was headed out the door anyway.. Love’s value is in floor spacing and shooting that’s a high value to have, but if he goes down with an injury for a long period of time that trade is going to look really really bad lol. I think worse case scenario we could have waited till all star break if we really had to make that deal again.
We sure as hell shouldn’t have given them 2 first rounders in that deal. If u think about it the cavs had all the leverage and just came out as plain desperate offering up that package. The warriors were just blowing smoke they weren’t ever going to give up Thompson anyway. The bulls didn’t have the pieces and if they did it wouldn’t make them any better by gutting their squad. The wolves had to trade love since they knew he was headed out the door anyway.. Love’s value is in floor spacing and shooting that’s a high value to have, but if he goes down with an injury for a long period of time that trade is going to look really really bad lol. I think worse case scenario we could have waited till all star break if we really had to make that deal again.
You do realize that, in the NBA, salaries have to match, yes? We couldn't trade Wiggins for Love straight up because that deal wouldn't work under the current CBA. We had to add in Bennett's salary to make the dollars work.
Who else were we going to trade with Wiggins aside from Bennett? Bennett was coming off the worst rookie season of all time for a number one pick. He hadn't yet proven he could even play in the NBA, let alone be worth stalling a deal for a top ten player like Kevin Love. I wanted Bennett to succeed, but let's not pretend he was anything close to a sure thing. Keeping Thompson was the safer bet, as he'd already proven he was a solid NBA player, not to mention good friends with LeBron.
Aside from that, as numerous people have mentioned, keeping Bennett made no sense after acquiring Love. Love will be playing over thirty minutes a night and plays the same position as Bennett. If Bennett has any hope of becoming a legitimate NBA player, he's going to need minutes to develop. He wasn't getting those minutes here.
I agree with everything you said here but including the additional first rounder was baffling. Wiggins alone was worth much more then what teams got for Melo and Howard and this isn't the NFL: a top prospect in a loaded draft is much much more valuable then a bunch of middling first rounders and ok prospects. Throwing in Bennett made sense for the reasons you already stated but why the additional first? That can be a useful chip to add for a guy like Mozgov who may not be worth giving up the Memphis pick for.
I agree with everything you said here but including the additional first rounder was baffling. Wiggins alone was worth much more then what teams got for Melo and Howard and this isn't the NFL: a top prospect in a loaded draft is much much more valuable then a bunch of middling first rounders and ok prospects. Throwing in Bennett made sense for the reasons you already stated but why the additional first? That can be a useful chip to add for a guy like Mozgov who may not be worth giving up the Memphis pick for.