If neither of us know ****, why wouldn't you then defer to precedent? Morey said that he probably wouldn't be ready for CAMP, not the season, and he said that he's right on track with his recovery. I don't claim to have any inside information on the matter......which is why I defer to relevant precedent. For some reason you want to go against it without any actual explanation why.....while claiming that you don't actually know anything. You see why that's a bit frustrating?
ok I take your answer to be a combination of mostly e and some d. Just trying to understand your logic. I think that the Jones haters have succesfully made widespread in this forum the notion that Jones value around the league is crap. And that is maddening considering how much are the rest of the players homeristically overrated. (just in the other thread someone told me Brewer is the same as Gallo). Jones is one of our best trade assets and Morrey is a good GM and good GMs never waste assets. Maybe you and me can't see it but there's a way to both content while not losing assets and he will find it.
Since you are so high on Jones, I really hope you find a way to talk the Bucks into giving up a lot to get him. We'd both be really happy.
I am actually waiting to find what happens with Hensons' extension. This will be a good measure stick about the price of underperfoming young bigs with still some potential. I think it will be around 12/4. And it is not a likely trade partner because Jones is a forward and that team has two franchise combo forward players.
Aww, c'mon, Jones is a future all star caliber player right? Why not give up Giannis for him? Totally worth it right?
Maybe it ends up a good trade who knows. But the organisation has a plan and has called them franchise players and they are not for trading. They are going to sink with them if they don't work out. (i.e Jabari's injury). Besides GA's trade value is very high regardless how he ends up so a sane GM would ask for much more than Jones. Not that htey were gonna trade him.
If Codman is to be believed, it's looking more and more likely that Jones will be the starter once the season starts with DMo still recovering. Gonna be interesting if DMo improves enough to take his spot mid season.
In an ideal world and if everything hits right we would just try and resign DMO/TJ for 22mil total resign DH and keep Lawson. Are team is stacked and if those pfs make that leap like a 4th year big Is supposed to this team will have litterly no weakness. It's not out of the realm that this happens. Tj is not a bad big at all and off the bench is fantastic. When u factor in he's been injured a lot last year and hasn't played even 2 seasons worth of games all while being 22, you have to expect a big jump in his already stellar production. The same can be said for Dmo who handy had really any playing time till this past season were he really stepped up big. I think if both guys grow which the will it's just a question how much we might be looking at A) resign dmo/jones B) go after KD It might just be better to have a stacked team with a solid solid pf big man rotation. DH/CC/DMO/TJ have a chance to be the best big man rotation in the league by midseason next year. That's speacial we really shouldnt be so pessimistic this team might be hands and legs better than any team in the league and that's a serious statement.
There is no precedent or previous example to go by. Morey doesn't know, and Donatas himself doesn't know.... so therefore we don't know. You using the Dwight example or "Precedent" as evidence just shows how flawed your thinking is on the topic. Dwight himself (Not ME) has said that he came back too early and that cost him longterm issues in correcting his health. If that's a "precedent" you are using for positive affirmation in your forecast then I think we can all agree that your experienced professional forecast sucks. Again... that's coming from Dwight. Morey's statements are coming from Morey, and Donatas' statements are coming from Donatas. I don't know S#$%. I'm conservative about his comeback because I have been led to believe I should be conservative from the people who know best. NO I have no idea why that is frustrating for you. I cannot begin to understand your process of thinking through things like this.
Hopefully that did make sense. Sorry if it was long-winded. Reg. trade value.... I try to not operate under theoreticals for trade value and instead focus on Need or supply and demand on the market for a certain player or their services. Versatile bigs always have demand around the league. Young ones especially. That being said to give an accurate trade value for Terrence Jones or any player for that matter you need to tell me first the teams that have a Need and then you need to tell me the situation that the Rockets or the trading team are in, and their Needs moving forward (contending, rebuilding, etc.). The folks on the GARM that just say "Player X is worth Y picks, or whatever" are just talking out their backside. NBA trades are like Horsetrading... in order to Horse trade, you need to know what you have in the stable first.
I talked to DMo a bit when he went to the police station event. He seemed relatively upbeat about the upcoming season, but did say it is very week to week on his progress. He was super upbeat about his new ferrari though, car looked sweet.
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