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khans2k5 wrote:

Camden0916 wrote:7 Good Moves:
- Trading 9 for 14 and 21 in 2013 NBA Draft.
- Drafting Shabazz Muhammad 14th overall, drafting Gorgui Dieng 21st overall, drafting Bojan Dubljevi? 59th overall. (2013)
- Signing Corey Brewer (three-years, $14M). (2013)
- S/T; acquiring Kevin Martin (four-years, $28M) and cash for Ridnour and a 2nd. (2013)
- Drafting Zach LaVine 13th overall in 2014 NBA Draft.
- Trading Kevin Love, Luc Mbah a Moute, Alexey Shved, protected 2015 MIA 1st for Andrew Wiggins, Thaddeus Young, Anthony Bennett. (2014)
- Mo Williams, Troy Daniels for Gary Neal, 2nd (2015)

8 Bad/Puzzling Moves:
- Trading Malcolm Lee, 26th overall for cash, 2nd in 2013 NBA Draft.
- Signing Chase Budinger (three-years, $15M). (2013)
- Re-signing Nikola Pekovic (five-years, $60M). (2013)
- Sold 44th and 53rd picks in 2014 NBA Draft.
- Trading Corey Brewer, Ronny Turiaf for Troy Daniels, 2nd. (2014)
- Waiving Jeff Adrien in favor of Miroslav Raduljica. (2015)
- Trading future protected 1st 2017-2020 for Adreian Payne. (2015)
- Trading Thaddeus Young for Kevin Garnett. (2015)

5 Other Moves That Had No Impact:
- Trading Derrick Williams for Luc Mbah a Moute. (2013)
- Drafting Glenn Robinson III 40th overall in 2014 NBA Draft.
- Waived J.J. Barea. (2014)
- Signing Lorenzo Brown to multi-year deal. (2015)
- Waiving Glenn Robinson III. (2015)

1 Remains To Be Seen:
- Re-signing Ricky Rubio (four-year, $55M).

Flip the GM has been a mixed bag of results. For every good move he makes, he also makes a bad one. He'll be able to add one to the positive bunch with the 2015 NBA Draft pick, but what else will he do?

Waiving Adrien and selling second round picks should be in the no impact column. Adrien would not have helped us win anymore games this year than we already won so him getting cut meant nothing. 2nd round picks are also just shots in the dark so the fact that he didn't see those picks as having value to the team are net zero moves. GR3 didn't even play this year when we were riddled with injuries so I find it hard to believe that Flip was going to be playing those picks he sold anyway. Those moves had zero impact on how this team could have performed versus how we actually did perform in my opinion. I don't see any added wins in keeping Adrien and two second round picks when Flip didn't believe there was a guy he wanted on his team at those spots so he sold them. That's why I can't count them as bad.

I also think the Thad for KG deal was a wash. Thad wasn't going to do anything for this team down the stretch given the guys he would have been playing with so his impact wouldn't have mattered anymore than the 5 games KG played. We dumped an empty stats guy on a losing team for a guy who will be here a year and possibly two longer than Thad at a cheaper cost. That's not a bad move in my opinion.