Deadline hindsight: What would you do differently?

[Surferdad]

I'm good with Muscala for cheap. I assume we'll sign one of Barton/Ross/Green/Holiday as a wing buyout and that should be a sufficiently deep roster to get us to the playoffs in a good spot.

I was interested in Poeltl or Olynyk as a big, but Olynyk did not get moved and Poeltl was significantly more expensive than Muscala. On balance, I'd rather have Muscala, Pritchard, Gallo (all 3 of which are under team control for next year), and an extra 1st to use later down the road than just Poeltl, who was likely to leave in FA this summer.

Agree, but I was never very enthusiastic for Poetl or Olynyk anyway. C's got MUCH better value in the MM deal. Almost free.

Have to admit though: I wanted Naz Reid.

[Moranis]

Not a win now move, but what about Wiseman? Considering what GS got for him, should Brad have explored that idea?

It's an interesting idea.  The player in that trade I would have liked was Saddiq Bey.  But, since we don't have five second rounders (or whatever the price was) you figure it would have cost us at least a lotto-protected #1.  I'm imagining that Brad didn't want to compromise a future asset.  But, I think that if we could have done that deal, I would have.

But, I don't have any angst about this deadline.  The Celtics got better, but this year and next, and only gave up a couple of seconds.

I would have been happy to sell off one of our firsts for Wiseman but we couldn't have absorbed his salary ($9.3M) the way DET was able to.  So the matching salary probably would have needed to be Gallinari and Pritchard.  Not sure we could have made that work with GSW.

I said elsewhere, I think DET made a very savvy move here.  Bey is a nice enough player but not nearly the ceiling of Wiseman.  DET will find plenty of other players to replace Bey in the upcoming drafts but probably not another Wiseman.

If we could have somehow gotten Bey out of it, that would have been great.  I would trade Pritchard and a second for him.  He is a nice pick up for ATL.

Probably GSW got the least out of this trade.  Gary Payton will help them some but I feel the tax forced their hand some.  I don't think they trade Wiseman for Payton if it didn't also save them money.

I think Boston could have done something like this

Boston - Wiseman
Golden State - 25 1st (lotto)
San Antonio - Jackson, Griffin, Kornet, Pritchard, cash, HOU 2nd

Any team with the cap space would have worked for the San Antonio part and we still could have fit Muscala into the TPE and made that trade

So post trade

Starters - Smart, Brown, Tatum, Rob, Horford
Bench - White, Brogdon, Hauser, Grant, Muscala, Wiseman
2W - Kabengele, Davison
Injury - Gallinari

Top 11 is solid (top 12 with Gallo), add a buy out guy or two and go from there.

Griffin, Kornet, Pritchard....
Sounds like a chemistry killing Perk 2.0 trade to me.

Except Pritchard clearly wants out and is making a stink.  The only chemistry killing move was keeping a malcontent on the team.