Trade Tatum for White, Williams and Bassey ! Not sure this trade proposition age well (I know some people are high on Williams or Bassey but Tatum is still one of the best player of his generation, Williams motor is questioning, Bassey may well finish like the new Bamba)
Even if you say he is a stat guy (which I don't believe) and compare him to Melo at 23 (and if people would have been an oracle to preview he'll never win a title), I guess I wouldn't have traded 23 Melo for Devin Harris, Andrew Bynum and Jeff Green ! Don't say they are the same player, but it is an unconsidereed risk. Tatum is a generational talent, people want to throw everything and anyone have to go for somes (Tatum is responsable for some, Brown is expendable for some, Smart became the worst player with 0 value for some...). Sorry but this is panicing. Even with his mistakes and aging, I am very happy Ainge is still on charge.
Patrick Williams motor is questionable? Since when
He works hard on both end. And is a physical dude
Bassey is no next Bamba. What?? Bassey is aggressive and plays with urgency. Anytime there is a odd man opportunity he is running up the floor
I did say it may not be good coparaison as I don't pretend to know well Williams that I just watched 3 or 4 times and not at all Bassey.
From what I saw Williams was a big reach of Chicago, some compared his potential to Siakam (the comparaison we see each years, many times) and showed some flash... But when I speak about motor it is because he had a lot of no show matches, at least in stats and tend to disapear on a quiet bad team, where we give him a lot of credit and playing time. An he isn't really definite as a 3 or a 4, having fluke for both posts. If one year he become the half of player Tatum is it would already be a good thing for him.
Bassey from what I just watch on draft net is an injury prone end 1st round who may be a good defender but not that athletic (OK if you don't want Bamba, so Xavier Tillman if you want).
Every year fans have darling draft guys and when like for Bane it pays we ear all year they were right... But when they said Tyrell Terry, Kira Lewis or RJ Hampton were crack we don't listen to them anymore... I knew Maledon would probabmy be a reach for a second round, as I am french, but not much sure than that...
Whatever the trade you propose just seem crazy, and you don't have to have a great knowledge in Basketball to understand that. I mean Tatum has all time stats at this stage and just reched Larry picking point at 23 of age... And everybody speak about him responsable of performances of others, because he isn't a leader... I am teacher and it remains me when you have an A+ pupils and in the class council you complain about him not driving the class with him. And then there is ideas like trading our superstar for some raft catch and young with big if... As most will recognise, tatum is much more promising than Pierce at this stage... So we didn't that qualitie of a player since 40 years... And then people bring back their science. Just LOL.
Again last year many Philly fans proposed trade for Embid or Simmons. One year later, this seems totally stupid.
And I don't know if it is doable, but 90% will prefer my 5 composed of Ball/Brown/Tatum (replace him at 3!!)/ Collins or Markanen or Barnes / Timelord than White/Springer/Brown/Williams/Bassey... This is almost a tanking team.
