I don't agree with the comments that the jury is still out until we see what Ainge does with the picks. We clearly won the trade and made the right move. In addition to the fact that Pierce and KG would not have gottenus anywhere near contention this year , it's been on obvious that Rondo is nowhere near recovered enough from his knee surgery to have helped contend his year either. We would have been stuck in mediocrity with KG and Pierce retiring and no assets to build with. It was clearly the right move regardless of what we do with the assets because the alternative was much worse.
Completely and thoroughly disagree, given the mixed bag that is Ainge's drafting record and the loyalty questions that have been raised above.
The return on the Nets' "assets" matters. It matters a lot.
That doesn't make sense. It's like saying that if someone gives you $5000 for your old, beat up car that you were going to put in the junkyard in a year, but you spend that $5000 on horse racing and lose it, you were better off struggling with the old car for a year and then getting nothing for it.
Just because you blow the assets doesn't mean it wasn't a no-brainer to make the deal for the assets. As much as I love Pierce and KG, watching them play this year and possibly next year on the celtics would have been as bad as trying to get an old, beat up car to start every morning and hoping it doesn't poop out on you at any minute. I would rather remember them fondly.
thats not exactly the same scenario tho. i think a better analogy would be sellin an old car for 5000 dollars to buy a new car that u arent sure works. its possible that it was worth sellin the car, but its also equally possible that the new car is worse than the old one. i think that was his point.
but i personally still like the trade.
Horse racing would be going all in by doing something like trading Wallace and a pick for Eric Gordon, along with similar multiple "win now" trades.
Keeping with the analogy, CoachBo thinks Ainge is a massive sucker in terms of drafting, getting duped into buying more lemons than the average person.
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...Which I must insist is untrue. The fact is 1 in 5 top 5 picks will bust. The fact is about half (probably more, iirc) the picks won't make it into the league. After that, many won't even make it into a rotation.
Getting Big Baby and Perk late and having them contribute in contenders is a home run.
Even if you, like CoachBo, don't think much at all of Rondo, he's still at the very very least a rotation player in some very competitive teams. Consider some of the best players out of the '06 draft: Lemarcus Aldridge, Rudy Gay, Paul Millsap, Brandon Roy, J.J. Redick, Bargnani, Kyle Lowry, Ronnie Brewer, Booby Gibson, Thabo Sefolosha, Tyrus Thomas. Even the most vehement of Rondo detractors would have to agree that Rondo's at the very very least on the upper echelon of that list.
Topic: safe to say now that Ainge made the right choice with the trade? (Read 10069 times)