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Thought I'd start a thread for folks to review the deals made up to the trade deadline with discussion of the Wolves failure to make any deals. Right now, my only comment is my disappointment with the Wolves failure to make any moves. It's ridiculous that the Wolves, a lottery-bound team, still has all it's expiring vets. I'm convinced that Rose, Tolliver and Taj all had decent trade value with at least a handful of contending teams, including Philly, Toronto, Milwaukee, San Antonio, and Portland among others. Then again, I could be wrong, in which case it's best that we simply let those contracts expire to avoid luxury tax problems next season.

I'm certain we got plenty of calls on Rose. Why we didn't take something back is beyond me. He's been great but we all know it won't last.

5 pgs and 5 pfs, I guess thats the balance that taylor, Saunders, and layden are looking for when they think about an ideal roster balance.

I think a big error in judgement, by not getting anything for all our expiring deals.

crazy-canuck wrote:5 pgs and 5 pfs, I guess thats the balance that taylor, Saunders, and layden are looking for when they think about an ideal roster balance.

I think a big error in judgement, by not getting anything for all our expiring deals.

Sadly, they actually have to be at least serviceable to trade away. This is it till next year

The thing I am disappointed with even a trade for a scub player might give new juice to this team. We had Deng/Tyus/Rose/Bayless/Taj/Tolliver all on expirings and we got absolutely nothing for them and that is so disappointing a sad.

The reality is none of the expiring guys have much value to a playoff team. Possibly Tyus, and maybe Rose but are hurt the that diminishes their marginal value.

The wolves are in a very odd situation, it's not often you have a team with two max guys not make the playoffs. So they don't have room to absorb salary in exchange for a draft pick and don't have the assets to trade to entice a none playoff team for a productive player. "Katy bar the door"

So many of the deals were about money. The Wolves didn't have some of the space needed to bring in a player to get something. I can't blame them if they didn't want to bring in money for next year to get some sort of moderate return. Look at some of the deals that were done. There was some decent players moved and the return seemed pretty underwhelming. In some cases I thought the return was pretty good! The one deal I wonder about was the Muscala for Beas and Zubac. The thing is though I know people want the twin Towers thing but really where would he play? I would have done the trade just to get him as an asset but I get not doing that trade just to get a guy you aren't sure is gonna play. It's possible the Lakers values Muscala higher for some reason too. Who knows. To me it's mixture of "Looknat all the player movement and we didn't get anything done!!!" And "There was a ton of player movement and obviously some teams had a ton of players to choose from..." in addition the buyout market is gonna be crazy and Tolliver is a guy that could step into that if he wants too. I do think some teams that would have wanted Tolliver made other moves or took themselves out of the running to give up an asset like Detroit (who also didn't really have a good salary match anyway). I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt but regardless Layden didn't doing anything that impressed anyone. He still could if he brings in a younger player with an open roster spot that looks like something useful. That's what I would be looking to do at this point.

We have reached out to Wayne Ellington...

Like that has a chance! ;-)

60WinTim wrote:We have reached out to Wayne Ellington...

Like that has a chance! ;-)

According to 538... the Wolves still have a 15% chance of making the playoffs.

;-)

60WinTim wrote:We have reached out to Wayne Ellington...

Like that has a chance! ;-)

And even if he did pick us, you know damn well his shot would suddenly go to hell and he would grossly underperform his career 3-point numbers.