Revisiting the Kevin Love trade one year later

[alexftbl8181 [enjin:6648741]]

this is simply a case of people enjoying potential more then actual results.

Yea Love is good NOW, but Wiggins could be a top 5 player for the next decade!

Yea the Cavs are finals contenders now, but if they had Wiggins, that window can be open past Lebron!

The Cavs beat the Bulls and Hawks without Love, so they would of easily done the same with Wiggins and more!

All these are based on hypotheticals, not actually results. So it makes no sense to say the Wolves "won" when nothing has happened yet. Especially when one team has the worst record and the other the best.

If the Cavs wanted to take the trade back, they wouldn't of resigned Love. Or they could of traded him, I'm sure plenty of teams would give up a lot to get Kevin Love.

The "money better spent" is silly too. The only difference in their roster building is that they would be simply over the cap and not in the luxury tax. They wouldn't of had the extra 15 to 20 million extra to spend in free agency. The only person it effects is Gilbert, who doesn't seem to give a shit he's spending the luxury tax.


Bottom line is, with that trade, the Cavs set themselves up to be a finals contender for at least the next 4 or 5 years because it's not like Love or Irving are old, and Lebron is still Lebron. Of all the shit they went through and people ripping on their chemistry, they still were a 2nd seed, were almost unbeatable when they started to click post ASB, and made the finals, and almost won without Love or Irving. The chemistry issues weren't as bad as reported or else Love wouldn't of resigned, so they should only be better playing together another year.

But they would take back that trade or be considered "losers" of the trade because they could hypothetically be better then a finals contender for the next 5 years? Give me a break

[Coolbreeze44]

this is simply a case of people enjoying potential more then actual results.
If the Cavs wanted to take the trade back, they wouldn't of resigned Love. Or they could of traded him, I'm sure plenty of teams would give up a lot to get Kevin Love.

One has nothing to do with the other. Nothing.

[TeamRicky [enjin:6648771]]

Trading Kevin Love for Wiggins was the best trade the Wolves ever made. We were a .500 team with no real hope of being better. Now we are building something the right way.

[Monster]

Trading Kevin Love for Wiggins was the best trade the Wolves ever made. We were a .500 team with no real hope of being better. Now we are building something the right way.

Tough to beat the OJ Mayo for Love, Miller and better salary cap contracts.

[TeamRicky [enjin:6648771]]

OJ for Love turned out to be pretty good, but Love for Wiggins will turn out to be a grand slam home run.

[Monster]

OJ for Love turned out to be pretty good, but Love for Wiggins will turn out to be a grand slam home run.

OJ is at best a rotation bench player and Love became one of the best scorers and rebounders in the league as a Wolf. How was that not a grand slam home run?

Sidenote: We traded Love for Wiggins so... :)

[TAFKASP]

this is simply a case of people enjoying potential more then actual results.

Yea Love is good NOW, but Wiggins could be a top 5 player for the next decade!

After all these years of lousy basketball I need to believe that the team has the potential down the road to truly contend, not just peak as first round fodder. This team has that potential, the Love teams IMO did not and were unlikely to acquire the parts needed to do so.

Yes, Love is unquestionably a great player but I think his game is best suited to being what he is in Cleveland, the third best player on a contending team. He can put a smile on your face game after game, but he isn't the type of player or person who was going to lead a team to the promised land. The Wolves as constructed were never going to be in position to grab that leader type star with love so really we were left with blowing it up and starting over, or extended mediocrity.

I despise Love the person, and really like Wiggins the player and person, but this isn't really about them. If there was a path to the championship series with Love I would have been all for it, there wasn't, and wasn't going to be. This Wiggins lead team has that potential, may never reach it, but I can at least have real hope.

[Camden [enjin:6601484]]

I just hope Wiggins, Towns and co. can eventually get this team to the playoffs. I'd enjoy seeing a playoff series with Minnesota in it. You know... because that hasn't happened in 11 years.

[TeamRicky [enjin:6648771]]

OJ for Love turned out to be pretty good, but Love for Wiggins will turn out to be a grand slam home run.

OJ is at best a rotation bench player and Love became one of the best scorers and rebounders in the league as a Wolf. How was that not a grand slam home run?

Sidenote: We traded Love for Wiggins so... :)

Wiggins has a much higher ceiling than Love. Love is a one way player who never got us to the playoffs. He kept us in the middle which is the worst place for a franchise to be stuck. Its all good now though.

[TAFKASP]

I just hope Wiggins, Towns and co. can eventually get this team to the playoffs. I'd enjoy seeing a playoff series with Minnesota in it. You know... because that hasn't happened in 11 years.

Would you trade a little short term success against long term contention? To my eyes the playoffs are only fun when you believe the team has a chance to win.