After a night of reflection, here's my gripe with this: Sure, Paul George killed his own trade value with the "hell bent on LA" leaks to the media, but why didn't Morey bite the bullet? After all, this is the kind of move that ups the risk profile significantly. Even if it's a 100% guaranteed that he bolts next year, why not take that risk? There is only so many opportunities a GM will get in his lifetime to pair 3 superstars in their prime at the same time even if it's for a year. If Harden and Paul can convince George to stay, then great we have ourselves a superteam and the only real threat to the Warriors for 3-5 years. However, If George leaves, then you clear the roster including Chris Paul and go spend the cash in free agency next year. I have full faith Morey would have been able to build a contender with serious cash in free agency. Nonetheless, Morey should have made a serious offer with Gordon and Capela. I know people are very high on both, but this was the time to sell high on Gordon who is coming off Sixth Man honors and Capela who is in the last year of controlled cost. He will be a near max free agent next summer. Both are terrific contributors, but even together they do not bring us any closer to contention with Golden State. Again, there are only so many opportunities for a top 10-15 player that come around and we missed the big kahuna for a once in a lifetime splash.
Hes off the table for george. He isnt the right return. Capela is only gonna get better. Cp3 and harden need a pick and roll threat for this offense
the league is forcing bullshit trades to pair up with superstars, meanwhile the rockets get no help. We have to gut our whole team
Seems like there's not much of a trade market for good but not great young players on the last year of their rookie contracts. Just look at Nerlens Noel, his trade value was only 2 2nd round picks. I can't imagine Capela's value being much higher.
(Wojnarowski) Here's where the (PG-Love-Harris) deal fell apart, league sources said. Indiana wanted no protections on a future Cavaliers first-round pick.
Ok, so they wanted Harris (which is better than Oladipo), the 13th pick (which is similar to Sabonis...?) AND a non protected 1st rounder while they got no pick back from OKC? Nice job Pritchard. He should be fired if that's true, especially if he did this just cause he didn't want to trade George to Cavs cause they're in the East, like the Pacers are going to compete anytime soon...lulz...
No they weren't. George is a rental and LeBron may leave next year. The team can quickly drop back to lottery contention. Unprotected picks rarely happen. If Indy was asking for that then they clearly didn't want to deal with the Cavs. That's an unreasonable request.
I'm not sure why this is in here or how it got past any mods, but there is a 18 page thread on this in the proper forum(http://bbs.clutchfans.net/index.php?threads/paul-george-traded-to-thunder.283716/) We don't need more offtopic stuff in GARM so I'm locking this, take this discussion to the DIsh.
