I wonder if SAC would be open to this.... Capela Dekker Anderson Brewer Rights to Llull Rights to Gentile for Cousins Gay Harden / Gordon Beverley / Gordon Ariza / Gay DMo / Gay Cousins / Harrell Sets us up really well to go after another player in free agency
A lot more? I doubt it. For a top 3 center in the league? Definitely not. Kings FO would have to be lobotomized to agree to that trade IMO.
Yule C.....just kidding. No return is going to be enough for Cousins. You never get equal value for a star. Capela is the top young center in the league not named Towns or Embiid. Dekker is the best young wing in the league right now. Seriously...go down the list of top 10 picks and tell me which are better than him. How many are hitting 53% from the floor and 40% from 3? He's been a major surprise, to the point where I'm not even sure I would include him in a trade for Cousins. I might rather hand him the reigns at SF next season and go after Cousins in 2018 free agency. He's that good, and finding good wings is very, very hard.
You have to think about Gay leaving and the prospect of Sam Dekker, who is a starter in this league with 3 & D written all over him. Also, Kings wanted Ryno and Capela is a championship caliber starting C and pretty cheap.
I get what you guys are seeing, I just can't see how Kings would pull a trade like that. There are so many other teams that can offer better players in return than Capela and Dekker, both of whom stats are being inflated playing in MDA's system with Harden.
What tf do you mean no use? So having a veteran defensive center behind a young developing center doesn't make sense to you? Our main defensive weakness is interior defense, but you don't want to improve it. Never said trade capela Got it... He had what was considered an albatross contact under the old CBA, under the new CBA it's typical role playing center money. Its only that it is into his later years that is a problem but I'm sure Morey could move him before it were a problem. People need to start understanding that we won't be getting decent veterans for anything less then 10m and quality centers always cost more. Besides all of this I proposed to trade Brewer and kj with a 1st for Tyson essentially. It's going to cost to dump Brewer and if you want a solid contributor coming back it will cost more, hence the pick but even that's debatable to include. Replacing Brewer+kj for Tyson = Win
Yeah, in fact in a scenario like this i'd like to keep Sam and leave Rudy off the table, for me Dekker is more valuable already considering his age, salary and upside. While i think you're kinda right here, i also think that you should keep in mind that Boogie is going to expire next season so, especially if traded in the summer, he'll have a say in his next destination, this alone should close the door to some teams if not most.
It's not that I think Chandler is overpaid, it's that adding him to the roster means no salary cap space. I'd rather have the space to decide what we want to do.
This is probably a moot point now under the new CBA. The Kings have the upper hand by being able to extend his deal to 6 years. That is unless they are sick of his act and want to move him for that reason alone.
Having 2 talented players at the same position with similar skillsets is harmful long term. You can't play Chandler and Capela together because they both can't shoot. One of the them has to play and one will have to sit. What's the use of getting Chandler if Capela's getting the majority of the minutes ahead of him (or vice versa). Isn't Nene already a veteran presence behind our developing center?
Why in the Hell do people want Rudy Gay? He has NEVER been a good player. He is a volume shooter. He has never been able to make teams better. That's why he has bounced around. He puts up meaningless stats. Not going to happen.
Incumbent teams have always had the upper hand. An extra year and higher raises didn't keep Dwight in LA, Aldridge in Portland, or Durant in OKC. If a player is committed to leaving, they will.
There's a rule that states that Rockets fans have to want at least one awful player on another team at all times. In the past it's been Rondo, Rubio, and Josh Smith for example.
I know this was meant as a rhetorical question, something to stop someone cold in his tracks, nothing left to say, well-you-got-me-on-that-one, almost-not-fair, like-shooting-fish-in-a-barrel.....but I'll take a shot at it: Yes, Rudy Gay is better than Corey Brewer. So is most any dude from a YMCA pickup game. Yep, that about covers it.
Not sure it is rhetorical. The point is Gay is not all that great, but our bar is not "great", our bar is asking is he better than Brewer, who is the person he would be replacing. If he is better than Brewer, then he makes the team better, which is why we would want him.