The Rage Monster wrote:Squishypoo wrote:E. Trade Love, Budinger, Barea to Golden State for Thompson, Barnes, Lee, 2019 1st round pick. Use MLE on backup PG. Draft at 13.
Rubio/Blake (MLE)
Thompson/Martin
Barnes/Brewer
Lee/ McDermott (13)
Pekovic/Dieng
I love this trade it makes us better IMO..The 2nd team would be Blake/Maritn/Brewer/MC/Dieng<<<Thats pretty damm nice... And the starting lineup even looks better then last year to me ....Add in a new HC i see no reason why this team would not make playoffs..... But why would GS do this?
This is like the 5th time I've seen someone trying to trade for a pick 5 years out, it makes absolutely zero sense to me. Even if you're hoping GS isn't as good by 2019 the pick would most likely have some protection so if they are bad we wouldn't get the pick until even later; if they're good we'd get a mediocre first round pick just like we could next year. Until someone can explain why people prefer a pick that far in the future I'll keep asking why, in my opinion it's a stupid idea when we could just as easily get a pick in 2015.
That's assuming we don't make the trade on draft night, which is when we'll likely have the most leverage possible.
When you keep bringing up the 2015 1st round pick, you're saying we'll trade Love after the 2014 draft. That's when three trade offers (CLE/BOS/CHI) go down in value, in my opinion, since they'll already have their guys and have seen how the draft played out. Could we still make a trade with those teams post-draft and just take the rights to whoever they drafted? Sure, but you're not ensuring you get who you want with those picks because they're already made. There's also the case of someone falling to a spot and BOS/CHI deciding they want to keep him and leave them out of their offered packages.
A lot of variables right there just to get a pick that will likely be in the 20s next year. Is it really that important for you to cash in on a 2015 first rounder when that team will have a starting lineup including Curry, Love, Iggy and Bogut? Relying on the possibility of huge injury from one or more of those players isn't a good reason either.
As it's been mentioned already, 2019 is the next 1st rounder they can trade. If that statement is incorrect, then by all means I'm wrong. Continuing with the thinking, though.
2019 1st rounder gives us an asset down the line that could grow in value. Never know how a roster will look in five years. There's a possibility they get worse. And if they still have a Curry/Love core, then we'll have the pick in the 20s that you so highly covet.
I don't see why it's stupid.
