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re: Remember how Brandon Jennings and 2 lottery picks is better than Jrue?
Posted on 12/18/14 at 8:25 am to TigerinATL
Posted on 12/18/14 at 8:25 am to TigerinATL
my primary gripe with the holiday trade was the cost...I'm coming around on jrue but he is not worth 2 top 10 picks either in concept or reality.
If sixers wouldn't budge off their price then we should have shopped elsewhere. He was not the only traceable young vet out there
If sixers wouldn't budge off their price then we should have shopped elsewhere. He was not the only traceable young vet out there
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Posted on 12/18/14 at 8:38 am to cgrand
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I'm coming around on jrue but he is not worth 2 top 10 picks either in concept or reality.
You can't get hung up no an arbitrary value for "top 10 picks." If you take the best fit available with both of those picks, do they make you better than Holiday. I really don't think so.
I don't have any issue with the Holiday trade. Those mid-late lottery picks are a crap shoot at best.
Posted on 12/18/14 at 8:41 am to cgrand
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If sixers wouldn't budge off their price then we should have shopped elsewhere. He was not the only traceable young vet out there
He was the best and the best fit for us.
Posted on 12/18/14 at 8:55 am to cgrand
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he is not worth 2 top 10 picks either in concept or reality.
Disagree. I would certainly agree with the sentiment, if you were talking about two top-5's, but not two top-10's. Google the numbers. The likelihood of a pick between 6-10 becoming a contributor of Jrue's caliber is very slim. The odds heavily favor the likelihood of drafting an Austin Rivers (I like him, but any person in their right mind would trade two of him for one Jrue any day of the week), rather than a Paul Pierce or a Clay Thompson, who are the exceptions in that part of the draft, and not the rule.
Jrue is worth the gamble.
This post was edited on 12/18/14 at 8:58 am
Posted on 12/18/14 at 8:58 am to cgrand
Well I think the view on the picks from the Jrue trade were that the 2013 draft was horrible so that pick was nit as valuable and we would be contending for the playoffs in the 2013-2014 season so that pick would have been worse also. The 2014 options still weren't super great in the draft it appears though.
We are competing in the west so we need much more talent than longshot picks at this point.
We are competing in the west so we need much more talent than longshot picks at this point.
This post was edited on 12/18/14 at 9:01 am
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