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Initial Reaction: Grade The Trade!

A+
40 (21.2%)
A / A-
37 (19.6%)
B+
28 (14.8%)
B / B-
24 (12.7%)
C+
9 (4.8%)
C / C-
15 (7.9%)
D+
6 (3.2%)
D / D-
6 (3.2%)
F
9 (4.8%)
Incomplete (I Just Can't Give It A Grade Yet)
15 (7.9%)

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Re: Poll: Give The Kyrie Irving-To-Boston Trade A Letter Grade
« Reply #270 on: June 21, 2018, 08:35:15 PM »

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So Kyrie for Zizic, Hood, Clarkson, Nance, Hill & Sexton.

Originally said C/C-, now it's a very solid B+ from me  ;D

But I thought we got fleeced by Cleveland?  :angel: :angel: :angel: :angel:

Lets calm down a bit. I think we keep Kyrie long-term, but there is still the risk he bolts after this season (even if it's a small risk)
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Re: Poll: Give The Kyrie Irving-To-Boston Trade A Letter Grade
« Reply #271 on: June 22, 2018, 01:49:15 AM »

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Think about the nightmare scenarios about this trade. The Nets pick turning into Ayton, Bagley, or Doncic. IT gelling with Lebron and leading the Cavs to a title. Crowder shutting down the Celtic wings in the playoffs. Zizic developing into solid big.

Of course none of that happened and everything blew up in the Cavs faces. The Cavs HAD to get back at least one allstar level player and it looks like they got none. Maybe a couple solid players and some garbage.

The trade is an easy A and a A++++ if you sign Kyrie. You got a legitimate star and top 20 player in the league for a bunch of meh. Yes, it sucked Kyrie got hurt and cost the Celtics a trip to the finals. But when you look what they ended up trading for him it is ridiculous.

Re: Poll: Give The Kyrie Irving-To-Boston Trade A Letter Grade
« Reply #272 on: June 22, 2018, 02:01:42 AM »

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Think about the nightmare scenarios about this trade. The Nets pick turning into Ayton, Bagley, or Doncic. IT gelling with Lebron and leading the Cavs to a title. Crowder shutting down the Celtic wings in the playoffs. Zizic developing into solid big.

Of course none of that happened and everything blew up in the Cavs faces. The Cavs HAD to get back at least one allstar level player and it looks like they got none. Maybe a couple solid players and some garbage.

The trade is an easy A and a A++++ if you sign Kyrie. You got a legitimate star and top 20 player in the league for a bunch of meh. Yes, it sucked Kyrie got hurt and cost the Celtics a trip to the finals. But when you look what they ended up trading for him it is ridiculous.


The trade was always an A because the Celtics got the best player in the deal.  The draft is a crapshoot.  Nothing is guaranteed.  The Celtics got the best player in the deal. Thats called winning a trade. 

Re: Poll: Give The Kyrie Irving-To-Boston Trade A Letter Grade
« Reply #273 on: June 22, 2018, 02:16:41 AM »

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B+, lol. Sexton will need to be a HOFer for this not to be an A+. You win championships with stars...
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Re: Poll: Give The Kyrie Irving-To-Boston Trade A Letter Grade
« Reply #274 on: July 02, 2018, 12:54:30 AM »

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Danny's fleecing the Cavs have gone full circle

cavs traded kyrie for it, crowder, zizic and bkn 18 pick (colin sexton)
-crowder was traded just to acquire rodney hood's contract

-IT was traded to the Lakers. Purpose is to clear cap space by trading clarkson and nance.

-the cap space was used by lakers to sign... lebron.

Go figure.

Re: Poll: Give The Kyrie Irving-To-Boston Trade A Letter Grade
« Reply #275 on: July 02, 2018, 01:07:36 AM »

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Think about the nightmare scenarios about this trade. The Nets pick turning into Ayton, Bagley, or Doncic. IT gelling with Lebron and leading the Cavs to a title. Crowder shutting down the Celtic wings in the playoffs. Zizic developing into solid big.

Of course none of that happened and everything blew up in the Cavs faces. The Cavs HAD to get back at least one allstar level player and it looks like they got none. Maybe a couple solid players and some garbage.

The trade is an easy A and a A++++ if you sign Kyrie. You got a legitimate star and top 20 player in the league for a bunch of meh. Yes, it sucked Kyrie got hurt and cost the Celtics a trip to the finals. But when you look what they ended up trading for him it is ridiculous.


The trade was always an A because the Celtics got the best player in the deal.  The draft is a crapshoot.  Nothing is guaranteed.  The Celtics got the best player in the deal. Thats called winning a trade.

So then Brooklyn won the trade with us in 2013?

It’s not so black and white. Future picks need to be sorted out.

If you look at what we were in 2017 and got smoked, to almost pulling it out against the, without Kyrie (and Hayward, and Theis) to now the Cavs having to blow it up while we prepare to take the reigns of the East.

The trade signaled the end of the Cavs as we knew them, and tonight was an emphatic exclamation point on what that trade did to Cleveland.
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Re: Poll: Give The Kyrie Irving-To-Boston Trade A Letter Grade
« Reply #276 on: November 23, 2018, 07:34:55 PM »

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So has anyone's "grades/thoughts" for the trade changed or...?

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Re: Poll: Give The Kyrie Irving-To-Boston Trade A Letter Grade
« Reply #277 on: November 23, 2018, 07:43:13 PM »

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So has anyone's "grades/thoughts" for the trade changed or...?

Yes, it was not worth it.

Re: Poll: Give The Kyrie Irving-To-Boston Trade A Letter Grade
« Reply #278 on: November 23, 2018, 07:44:31 PM »

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So has anyone's "grades/thoughts" for the trade changed or...?

F-

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Re: Poll: Give The Kyrie Irving-To-Boston Trade A Letter Grade
« Reply #279 on: November 23, 2018, 07:45:07 PM »

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So has anyone's "grades/thoughts" for the trade changed or...?

Hell no. Thought it was a steal and in my opinion it still is. If we hadn't done it we would have lost IT for most of last year with his injury anyway.
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Re: Poll: Give The Kyrie Irving-To-Boston Trade A Letter Grade
« Reply #280 on: November 23, 2018, 08:09:18 PM »

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So has anyone's "grades/thoughts" for the trade changed or...?

Hell no. Thought it was a steal and in my opinion it still is. If we hadn't done it we would have lost IT for most of last year with his injury anyway.

Yeah that injury unfortunately really hurt IT's career in general. Didn't think it was that bad until we found out more later  :(
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Re: Poll: Give The Kyrie Irving-To-Boston Trade A Letter Grade
« Reply #281 on: November 23, 2018, 10:22:54 PM »

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A+++

Re: Poll: Give The Kyrie Irving-To-Boston Trade A Letter Grade
« Reply #282 on: November 23, 2018, 10:25:59 PM »

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So has anyone's "grades/thoughts" for the trade changed or...?

F-

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Re: Poll: Give The Kyrie Irving-To-Boston Trade A Letter Grade
« Reply #283 on: November 23, 2018, 10:45:55 PM »

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Still think we need to see what Irving does in free agency.  If he leaves it changes the trade a great deal
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Re: Poll: Give The Kyrie Irving-To-Boston Trade A Letter Grade
« Reply #284 on: November 23, 2018, 11:17:17 PM »

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Still think we need to see what Irving does in free agency.  If he leaves it changes the trade a great deal

Nah we won it. We are good. IT blew up the cavaliers and made Lebron go west. We won