Come on man. You only have this much salary to spare. Go find how much Beverley is making and how much impact he's giving this team during regular AND playoff season. Both Ariza and Bev are on ridiculously cheap contract. It doesn't make economic sense to trade either of them, not to mention their chemistry / playing factor.
Man I love Patrick Beverley to bits, ever since the first day he was picked up here from Russia. But his trade value is at an all-time high and if we can replace him with a better player while utilising his trade value, that'd be a net addition to the team in a gigantic way. Say we package him and Ryan to the Pacers for PG13 and bad contracts, that means we will have a line up of: Harden Lowry PG13 Ariza (undersized sure but is Ryan really that much of a supposed "PF"?) Capela I'm just saying that we have no other tradeable assets besides Pat. Harden is untouchable. Ariza will only net us a mid first-rounder at most, whom we have no time to develop either. Capela is our C for the foreseeable future. Ryan is only giving us any resemblance of production half of the games he plays anyway.
This post speaks to one of the core issues for us going forward in attempting to become a legit championship contending team. Harden simply does not want to share ball distribution responsibilities while at the same time he does want teammates to grind defensively to cover for him just roaming around on the defensive end while also subverting their own offensive skill sets to work within the confines of what he creates. Yes, when he is gassed he will take a possession off here or there and let Gordon or Lou attempt to run an iso or let Bev dribble around and try to create something but those are incidental possessions, maybe two or three possessions at most when he is in there. The rest of the possessions are Harden on the ball. And we don't even have another facilitator in the rotation. Bev for sure isn't good at facilitation. And Gordon and Williams are even worse. Other superstars see this. They know it. And there's few to none of them that want to stand around and wait for Harden to throw them the ball for the shot or at most set a pick and spot up. That's very basic, mundane play for a superstar. That's why Durant left one team that was one-dimensional for a team that actually let him play the game, facilitate, distribute, and get the ball back to finish, a true multi-pronged attack. For us to have any chance to attract a player like Paul George Harden is going to have to change his game and share the ball.
Rival Teams Have Been Told Kyle Lowry Has 'Zero Interest' In Re-Signing With Raptors http://basketball.realgm.com/wireta...-Has-Zero-Interest-In-Re-Signing-With-Raptors
So then we have two All-Star PGs and PG himself? Brilliant. We will PG the holy f$#k out of the Warriors.
A point guard upgrade is only worth it if it's Chris Paul. CP3 is an absurdly good two-way player that the rest of the league absolutely reveres. Having Harden and CP3 on the same team would be the best duo we've had since we raised a couple of banners.
Would love to have Kyle back... but same opinion as with CP3.... we got bev at <6M for the next 2 years... We got james playing point anyway... would rather spend the money in the front court and upgrading Ariza if opportunity exists...
I think we all believe in reporters this time of year than players. Didn't kd say, "I'm staying in OKC" last year? -so yeah players words don't mean shat
Should have gotten him a few years ago, now he's too old and Harden's a better PG at this point. I'd rather get a wing.
See my thread on trading for Porzingis and Melo. Both address actual needs unlike the PG spot. Only weakness left would be SF
