Nate Duncan kinda sorta gave Dumars credit

I don’t care what anyone says it’s was a bad trade. It was mocked by every sports outlet as it should have been

“Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good” - Joe Dumars professional motto

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Obviously doesn't excuse the process as that #8 pick could easily have jumped to the top-4

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This is the only part of the tweet that matters. Entire approach to the season would have changed

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matter how good Queen becomes

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that shows your low iq. How good queen becomes directly proved what and why Dumars risked what he did. To find no correlation in that shows you are a tard that knows no boundaries

Or maybe we lose more games without Queen and have a top 3 pick this year....

Doubt it. Dumars won't let them tank.

This was always the extremely more likely scenario. No protection was reckless, but the response was always a bit biased.

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and he's set the franchise back

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I didn’t know we can just make up shite

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You can’t assume everything turns out exactly the same if we kept the pick

So saying oh in hindsight trading queen for the 8th pick wasn’t so bad is being intellectually dishonest

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Yes... the right comparison is saying would you rather have Fears & Queen with them already having a year together under their belts or Fears & any of the top 10-15 picks taken tonight

As a trade goes he’s not inherently wrong but it’s also a dumb take. Because if we kept the pick we wouldn’t have taken Flemings. It’s not apples to apples.