Houston offered "several" Nets picks to Brooklyn for Mikal Bridges

You can never not have enough vets on your team. especially good ones who are respected. Mikal is widely known as a a hard working respected player in this league. There isn't some cap thats allowed where you say 2-3 is enough. Uncle Jeff isn't guaranteed to be back if they decide to let him go where he wants for next year

 

Every vet you play on a non-contending team takes minutes from the development of younger players. There is value in sprinkling some guys in, but you can also definitely take it too far. Now, if you are a proven contender, yes, having a lot of vets is good. We will not be there for at least two or three years though.

 

we still don't even know what the package going out would be. I mean obviously it isn't just picks for Mikal. Were just spitballing here

 

Yeah, I think so as well, it would have been a different story if Sengün, Tari, Jabari were all nearing 24 years old....but they are not even close.

It is one of those times when you ask yourself.....what do you do in the next 2-3 years.....to not just kill time to move forward enough without mortgaging yourself.

 

Nets declined to entertain ANYTHING for Bridges? I'm pretty sure they're more desperate than we are

 

He's a nice player. Depending on what we had to give up to get him, as long as we didn't overpay, I'd be fine with it. It doesn't really matter though because they aren't going to give him up. I do hope that it doesn't mean they are ready to overpay for somebody else. That part is concerning.

 

Royce O'Neal and Claxton would make us immediately better. Shooting and Rim protection.

Both are unrestricted FA's this year though. Doesn't make sense for us to give up any capital.

 

I'd give up one of the SRPs we have for Claxton, but that's it.

 

Nets fans are completely delusional about Mikal's value. Basically saying they'd want all the picks back for him which is high hilarity.

 

I mean it's not like we don't see the same thing on CF's and overvaluing rockets players. We see that year after year. At one point folks really discussed Wood being worthy of Max. one of your best players on a contender. All completely delusional

 

The Nets were like the Knicks back then when they held onto an aging and declining Amar'e..... (and Melo)#

Mikal is not declining but he has a firm ceiling IMO.

Basically understandable if he is a fan favorite......hard to part with.

 

Uh Green is the only one you can argue "isn't crushing it" and he is also still pretty young and as can be seen from the previous game still has flashes of potential.

Jabari and Amen have shown a lot so far in their young career. Jabari especially I dunno why you hate the guy so much but he has been amazing in his second year and has become the Rox's 2nd most valuable player after Sengun. 6'10 two way stretch Pfs don't exactly grow on trees.

 

Bridges would want a max contract given the way Nets have been boosting him so this doesn't help us money wise.

 

Would rather have Cam Thomas for much less.

 

Just saying that might be the thinking but yeah I get that you do not want to part ways with a player that has only played there 1 or 2 years and you want to see more of him.....

 

Honestly I wouldn't give up anything for him. He's a 55% FT shooter and extremely injury prone so to me he is not close to being a starter. He wants to get paid and since he's unrestricted I'm sure he'll want to start unless he's paid way more than the market.

It's too bad, I absolutely love everything else about his game. He guards the perimeter so well for a C and he protects the rim. This season he's averaging 10+ rebounds and 2.2 blocks. Great lob threat especially in PnR. Almost 2:1 asst/to ratio. However in the playoffs, they are going to just keep fouling him shamelessly and I think that's a big disadvantage and just a motivation killer sometimes too.

Give me 22 year old Day'Ron Sharpe instead, I think he can become an elite backup C and potentially a good starter. 61% FT shooter that's close enough to being acceptable. Good rebounder, shot blocker, has his 9/25 (36%) of 3's in his career, very basic scorer inside, great size. I think he's an RFA after next season, so there's team control. That's something worth giving up our own 2025 FRP (I think will be in 18-25 range). Doubt we can get him for a couple of second rounders.

They seem to like Claxton more than Sharpe so who knows they might consider it if they're desperate to stockpile picks.

 

Mike Scotto is pretty close to a Nets mouthpiece, he was their local beat reporter previously. He puts out the intel and phrasing that he's fed from his sources in that FO, just like our local guys do with our FO.

This report is attempting to create leverage through the media 101. The current Nets front office have a long history of projecting strength and bluster through the tidbits they leak about trade negotiations (aka, the leak they put out that turned down 4 firsts for Bridges after the Suns trade, and then it turned out it was bad / fake firsts).

You've gotta notice all the sneaky word choices in the report from a Nets source:

• "Several picks" instead of "all the picks"; if it was all the picks the Nets FO would have 100% said "all"
• No mention of protections; if they were unprotected the Nets FO would have 100% said so
• No mention of young players in the package; if a young player were included in the package the Nets FO would have 100% said so

Next step is that some Rockets affiliated source will leak some sort of soft rebuttal. You'll hear that actually there were top 4 protections and it wasn't all the picks etc.

That's the game folks.

 

Interesting, would be curious to how far they got....1st base?

 

Iko, Shams, Amick article is scarier than Rockets asking about Bridges. Seems Rockets geared towards trying to make the playoffs with no one good enough to make that leap possible.