cavsfan817
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When you're drafting that high you always go BPA and not off of need. Felt like that was dumb of them to not move back and at least acquire more if they weren't going to take Dunnbosoxlover12 said:I just find it kinda funny that you call a trade offer shit that includes an All-Defensive 1st teamer, two future Top 5 picks (or at least one of them, but most likely both), a young defensive wing that shut down a red hot Paul Millsap, and the third overall pick in this past draft. Please tell me a better offer than that for a team that Westbrook will voluntarily go to.
Also we were never going to take Dunn because it would leave us too positionally cramped as I said. Sure Dunn will be very good, but he isn't better than Isaiah, and doesn't provide an immediate impact to start over Bradley either. So then he's on the bench -- and while yeah he is better than Smart and Rozier it does not mean it's worth taking him -- because we have Smart and Rozier. Smart's an elite defender at age 22, and Rozier according to SynergySports was the best and most efficient scorer in all of Summer League. Obviously you don't then imply Rozier is a future star, because he clearly isn't, but if you add Dunn then Rozier basically has zero playing time, and that's also lunacy. Sometimes you take the slightly less hyped up player for one who fits your system better. If you gave me the choice today to add either Mike Conley or Gordon Hayward to my team, I'm taking Hayward, even if Conley is considered the better player. And for Jaylen being ranked 7-9 look as his (potential) fit with Boston and it's clear he's ranked much higher on the Celtics board than Hield/Murray
Every asset in the Celtics trade has more value than everyone offered in your fake Davis trade, except maybe Dieng is equal to Smart. And Davis has literally 1000x more value than Westbrook currently has -- he's under contract for five more years where as Westbrook is an impending UFA.
Also there is no way the Thunder let him walk to the Spurs at the end of the year. Westbrook has seen how publicly humiliated the franchise has been when KD left them, and so when they ask Westbrook this offseason (if they already haven't), he knows that he will be traded if he doesn't want to stay. Obviously there is a chance he will re-sign, but if so the Thunder already know of it. But if he tells them won't re-sign they HAVE to trade him, and it will be hard to get fair compensation for a guy teams know will be a UFA. Like hypothetically, why would the Lakers trade Ingram and D'Lo for Russ when they can outright sign him in FA that next summer, if he wants to go to LA? Things like that lower his value immensely