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[Natebishop3]

Because Cronin had plans to sign Ant, Nurk & Nassir to big fat contracts? Empty the bowl, fill it back up with Dame's buddies.

….. ummm….. the season ends, they renounce RoCo, done and done. They didn’t need to trade his contract.

 

[wizenheimer]

….. wut?

I said that I was reserving the right to judge the deal until after his free agency. Keep up.

And just because Siakam is a higher risk doesn’t invalidate the comparison that they’re both risks that had to be factored before making the move. We accepted the risk on Grant and we have yet to see if it worked out. We seemingly did not accept the risk on Siakam. How is that comparison bad?

I really thought I explained why I thought it was a bad comparison. That being that a protected 2025 first from the Bucks + a TPE is not anywhere close to the value of Ant, Little, and a 3rd pick. There is a real thing called acceptable risk. Grant was acceptable risk compared to cost. Siakam wouldn't have been

 

[Tince]

You’re making this so much more complex than it needs to be.

We used assets to acquire a player. If that player ends up only staying for one year and we don’t get any compensation if he leaves, that’s a bad trade. If he stays that’s a win. If he stays for way too much money, that’s harder to judge. He would be more difficult to trade if Dame leaves. He would eat up more of the cap. Etc etc etc.

Do you think the team is expecting to have used those assets for only one year of Grant? Do you think they will be happy if he leaves?

My first thought was to judge the transaction for what it was a year ago. Now I'm simply trying to understand where your cutoff is for how far the butterfuly effect impacts your view of a transaction.

To answer your question: I think the team thought the assets they sent out were less valuable than the opportunity the assets they brought in would provide.

 

[Natebishop3]

I really thought I explained why I thought it was a bad comparison. That being that a protected 2025 first from the Bucks + a TPE is not anywhere close to the value of Ant, Little, and a 3rd pick. There is a real thing called acceptable risk. Grant was acceptable risk compared to cost. Siakam wouldn't have been

I’m not comparing the trades themselves. I’m saying that they were both measured using the same risk. You’re even agreeing to that. You’re just saying that one was acceptable and one was not. That’s literally what I said several posts up. Regardless, you’re still supporting that the risk of the player re-signing was a key factor in the trade.

Well, even with lower risk that was determined to be acceptable, if Grant leaves for nothing, I will think the trade ended up being a bad one.

 

[Natebishop3]

My first thought was to judge the transaction for what it was a year ago. Now I'm simply trying to understand where your cutoff is for how far the butterfuly effect impacts your view of a transaction.

To answer your question: I think the team thought the assets they sent out were less valuable than the opportunity the assets they brought in would provide.

You do you.

 

[Whyachi]

….. ummm….. the season ends, they renounce RoCo, done and done. They didn’t need to trade his contract.

worst part ... watching RoCo come of the bench, play pretty good, help the Clippers sweep Portland last season

 

[Tince]

You do you.

Appreciate your permission to do so!

I'd grant you the same permission, but you're probably not waiting for me to green light it.

 

[Tince]

worst part ... watching RoCo come of the bench, play pretty good, help the Clippers sweep Portland last season

RoCo played 12 TOTAL minutes in 5 playoff games and that was with Kawhi and PG13 being hurt. Think about that.

 

[Natebishop3]

Appreciate your permission to do so!

I'd grant you the same permission, but you're probably not waiting for me to green light it.

Well when we fundamentally disagree on something that seems like common sense to me, there’s really not much more to say.

 

[Whyachi]

RoCo played 12 TOTAL minutes in 5 playoff games and that was with Kawhi and PG13 being hurt. Think about that.

those weren't the games I referred to.

Need some stats?? don't make me do it

 

[wizenheimer]

worst part ... watching RoCo come of the bench, play pretty good, help the Clippers sweep Portland last season

 

[Tince]

those weren't the games I referred to.

Need some stats?? don't make me do it

You can share them if you'd like.

Had he not beat us, we wouldn't have finished behind the Spurs, so I guess we can thank RoCo for getting us Scoot!

 

[Tince]

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Ahh, you just beat me to it! Well played!

 

[Tince]

Well when we fundamentally disagree on something that seems like common sense to me, there’s really not much more to say.

All good... how I evaluate trades actually appears to be a little more complex than the way you do. I think my way is the common sense way, but since yours differed, I was curious to find out how you did it. I don't think there is a right/wrong way; I was asking out of curiosity as I'm always open to improving my methods. I learn a lot from people here!

 

[Natebishop3]

All good... how I evaluate trades actually appears to be a little more complex than the way you do. I think my way is the common sense way, but since yours differed, I was curious to find out how you did it. I don't think there is a right/wrong way; I was asking out of curiosity as I'm always open to improving my methods. I learn a lot from people here!

Ok, let me think of another example..

The Portland/CHI/Cleveland trade. Technically it's not complete because we have not conveyed our pick to Chicago yet. To me that's an unfinished component to that deal. I already think that trade was... not great. But because that pick has not yet conveyed, it could potentially be worse. What if we have to give up a player or other picks to get Chicago to closet the matter? Joe said that he talks to Chicago every single deadline because he knows that he might need to remove the limitations on our future picks. So we can't fully judge how bad that trade was until it's officially done.

Similarly, I don't see the Grant trade as resolved until he signs on the dotted line. We clearly got him because we thought he would re-sign here. If he decides to not sign here, that means that the assets that we got from the CJ trade were wasted. We could have used those exact same assets to get Duren from New York. We would have needed to absorb Kemba and give them that pick. That's what Detroit did. So until we know what the outcome of Grant's free agency, I don't think we know how that trade worked out for us.

 

[SharpesTriumph]

Ok, let me think of another example..

The Portland/CHI/Cleveland trade. Technically it's not complete because we have not conveyed our pick to Chicago yet. To me that's an unfinished component to that deal. I already think that trade was... not great. But because that pick has not yet conveyed, it could potentially be worse. What if we have to give up a player or other picks to get Chicago to closet the matter? Joe said that he talks to Chicago every single deadline because he knows that he might need to remove the limitations on our future picks. So we can't fully judge how bad that trade was until it's officially done.

Similarly, I don't see the Grant trade as resolved until he signs on the dotted line. We clearly got him because we thought he would re-sign here. If he decides to not sign here, that means that the assets that we got from the CJ trade were wasted. We could have used those exact same assets to get Duren from New York. We would have needed to absorb Kemba and give them that pick. That's what Detroit did. So until we know what the outcome of Grant's free agency, I don't think we know how that trade worked out for us.

I look at trades as being judged at two times. There's the initial evaluation of the trade. This is always done immediately. Components such as pending free agents or picks just have their value estimated as best as possible.

Then there's the final actual value of the trade years later in hindsight. This includes what happened to free agents, where picks ultimately ended up, what players were drafted with picks, how players acquired or dealt later developed. Some of those unknowns are resolved in a year. Others take up to 10 years or longer.

The first initial judgements are far more useful IMO as we will never know all of that information when deciding to do future moves. So it's interesting to see what a trade ultimately ends up, but it shouldn't drive that initial decision making process.

Think of it as flipping coins. We should always expect the chance of heads to be 50% and bet accordingly. Yes after a flip if you could go back to place a bet of what would happen you would want to bet closer to 0% or 100% since you now know the outcome. But that should never drive your future bets of a new flip to anything except 50%. The final result also doesn't make a prior 50% bet good or bad in hindsight, because the outcome was never known at the initial decision.

 

[Natebishop3]

I look at trades as being judged at two times. There's the initial evaluation of the trade. This is always done immediately. Components such as pending free agents or picks just have their value estimated as best as possible.

Then there's the final actual value of the trade years later in hindsight. This includes what happened to free agents, where picks ultimately ended up, what players were drafted with picks, how players acquired or dealt later developed. Some of those unknowns are resolved in a year. Others take up to 10 years or longer.

The first initial judgements are far more useful IMO as we will never know all of that information when deciding to do future moves. So it's interesting to see what a trade ultimately ends up, but it shouldn't drive that initial decision making process.

Think of it as flipping coins. We should always expect the chance of heads to be 50% and bet accordingly. Yes after a flip if you could go back to place a bet of what would happen you would want to bet closer to 0% or 100% since you now know the outcome. But that should never drive your future bets of a new flip to anything except 50%.

Normally I would agree with you, but I would sincerely hope that we traded for Grant with some assurance that he would re-sign here. I think if he does not re-sign, and we don't trade Dame, that's a huge hit to any chance we have of keeping Dame, or building around him. Kinda makes me wonder if that's why we would be gun shy about trading for OG or Siakam.

 

[SharpesTriumph]

Normally I would agree with you, but I would sincerely hope that we traded for Grant with some assurance that he would re-sign here. I think if he does not re-sign, and we don't trade Dame, that's a huge hit to any chance we have of keeping Dame, or building around him. Kinda makes me wonder if that's why we would be gun shy about trading for OG or Siakam.

I'd assume we did have assurance. But that was with the feelings of the team last year, that had Josh Hart, and had Dame as the sole cornerstone. It was not expected the direction of the team would change so much so soon. Or that the team would lose so much. Perhaps that also changed Grants decision to resign. Those factors were not all known to Grant or the Blazers a year ago.

If the Blazers had tried to build a winner around Dame such as trading #3 for Brown then Grant is more likely to resign IMO. But those events didn't take place.

So I don't think Grant actually walking or resigning changes how good the trade for him was at the time it was done. The Blazers had to do the best they could with imperfect information and with their best estimates.

Now if the Blazers knew there was an extremely high likelihood Grant would walk regardless of these other factors and ignored it yes that would make the trade a worse trade. But Grant staying or going doesn't change the initial grade of the trade.

 

[Tince]

Ok, let me think of another example..

The Portland/CHI/Cleveland trade. Technically it's not complete because we have not conveyed our pick to Chicago yet. To me that's an unfinished component to that deal. I already think that trade was... not great. But because that pick has not yet conveyed, it could potentially be worse. What if we have to give up a player or other picks to get Chicago to closet the matter? Joe said that he talks to Chicago every single deadline because he knows that he might need to remove the limitations on our future picks. So we can't fully judge how bad that trade was until it's officially done.

Similarly, I don't see the Grant trade as resolved until he signs on the dotted line. We clearly got him because we thought he would re-sign here. If he decides to not sign here, that means that the assets that we got from the CJ trade were wasted. We could have used those exact same assets to get Duren from New York. We would have needed to absorb Kemba and give them that pick. That's what Detroit did. So until we know what the outcome of Grant's free agency, I don't think we know how that trade worked out for us.

I agree with your process, in general. Like I previously said, there often becomes a butterfly effect on these things that makes the impact of a trade last decades until it's complete.

Of course we all evaluate a trade when it happens and I try to put an estimated weight on the unknown varibles in the future. Whether that be future picks, potential, injury history, etc.

I think it can get complicated on trades with draft picks because I'm not sure a GM should get credit/punished if the pick turns out to be abnormally good/bad down the road. For example, if in the spring of 2007, we traded our 2007 unprotected pick for Udonis Haslem, I would say that was a bad trade. The unknown at the time would be that our pick would turn into the #1 pick, and that consencous #1 pick would be Greg Oden, etc... Despite Haslem having the better career than Oden, I would still say the trade would've been bad move by Steve Patterson.

On the flip side, I'd say people would over-state how good the Gerald Wallace to the Nets trade was for Portland. Wallace for a pick between 5-10 in the draft was a good move, no doubt. However, I can't give the GM credit for knowing Lillard was their guy and that he'd be available. I'll give them credit for that selection seperately, but not bonus credit for the trade itself. If that makes sense.

 

[Natebishop3]

I agree with your process, in general. Like I previously said, there often becomes a butterfly effect on these things that makes the impact of a trade last decades until it's complete.

Of course we all evaluate a trade when it happens and I try to put an estimated weight on the unknown varibles in the future. Whether that be future picks, potential, injury history, etc.

I think it can get complicated on trades with draft picks because I'm not sure a GM should get credit/punished if the pick turns out to be abnormally good/bad down the road. For example, if in the spring of 2007, we traded our 2007 unprotected pick for Udonis Haslem, I would say that was a bad trade. The unknown at the time would be that our pick would turn into the #1 pick, and that consencous #1 pick would be Greg Oden, etc... Despite Haslem having the better career than Oden, I would still say the trade would've been bad move by Steve Patterson.

On the flip side, I'd say people would over-state how good the Gerald Wallace to the Nets trade was for Portland. Wallace for a pick between 5-10 in the draft was a good move, no doubt. However, I can't give the GM credit for knowing Lillard was their guy and that he'd be available. I'll give them credit for that selection seperately, but not bonus credit for the trade itself. If that makes sense.

I thought Wallace was completely washed and I thought that was a horrible trade for Brooklyn

 

[Tince]

I thought Wallace was completely washed and I thought that was a horrible trade for Brooklyn

You're not wrong... just no bonus credit (in my eyes) for the pick becoming the best player in franchise history!

 

[Natebishop3]

You're not wrong... just no bonus credit (in my eyes) for the pick becoming the best player in franchise history!

True, but this is why I’m not afraid of tanking or rebuilding because the lottery is the only way that we seem to be able to add top tier talent.

 

[SharpesTriumph]

True, but this is why I’m not afraid of tanking or rebuilding because the lottery is the only way that we seem to be able to add top tier talent.

Roy and Dame were great lottery picks, the Blazers acquired both in trade.

Part of the reason if we ever trade Dame that I want the most picks possible and as far out dates as possible. The mediocre veteran names coming back are irrelevant.

 

[Natebishop3]

Roy and Dame were great lottery picks, the Blazers acquired both in trade.

Part of the reason if we ever trade Dame that I want the most picks possible and as far out dates as possible. The mediocre veteran names coming back are irrelevant.

Yup. Getting picks is the best way to do it.

 

[wizenheimer]

Roy and Dame were great lottery picks, the Blazers acquired both in trade.

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that's a little apples/oranges though. Yes, Blazers got a 6th pick for Crash. Thank god for Billy King (and Chad Buchanan)

but the trade that got Roy was a 7th pick (+cash) for a 6th pick. Blazers couldn't have got there with a 19th pick or by trading Juan Dixon. Moving up one or two slots (Aldridge), even in the lottery is rather common. Trading a role player for a top-10 pick in a draft 3 months away isn't

 

[SharpesTriumph]

that's a little apples/oranges though. Yes, Blazers got a 6th pick for Crash. Thank god for Billy King (and Chad Buchanan)

but the trade that got Roy was a 7th pick (+cash) for a 6th pick. Blazers couldn't have got there with a 19th pick or by trading Juan Dixon. Moving up one or two slots (Aldridge), even in the lottery is rather common. Trading a role player for a top-10 pick in a draft 3 months away isn't

That wasn't the trade I was referring to. The Blazers traded Telfair for the 7th pick and swapping Ratliff for LaFrent contract before the draft. I consider that to be the trade which ultimately resulted in the Roy pick.

 

[wizenheimer]

That wasn't the trade I was referring to. The Blazers traded Telfair for the 7th pick and swapping Ratliff for LaFrent contract a few days before the draft. I consider that to be the trade which ultimately resulted in the Roy pick.

ok...understood

 

[Chris Craig]

Fire his ass. He's a joke.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

If he takes Miami’s poopoo platter he’ll be Portland’s public enemy #1

 

[HomerLovesKoolAid]

If he takes Miami’s poopoo platter he’ll be Portland’s public enemy #1

Is there any doubt in anyone's mind that this is exactly what is going to happen?