Re: Revisiting the Kevin Love trade one year later
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2015 5:08 pm
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
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