BRIGGS wrote:If we got a really good PG--and Bledsoe has never been with players like Carmelo and KP--this guy could be a star. He could UP his game. Why would using a top 14 restricted pick and Kuz be a bad deal? Im not worried about lotto restricted picks --if they convey--we made the playoffs. Bledsoe is 27 hes no Marbury hes a two way playerPeople are not thinking this through
No, you are not thinking this through.
IF, and it was a huge IF, the Suns were going to trade Bledsoe, they would have DONE IT BEFORE THE PG MARKET CLOSED ON THEM THIS OFFSEASON. They could have approached the Kings, the Jazz, any number of teams and found a better deal than a restricted first. You are also ignoring the issue that if they wanted to move Bledsoe at this years trade deadline, they could also see what their options are then, trying to pry assets from teams with GMs either trying to hold onto their jobs or looking to push.
The deal you propose is a FANTASTIC DEAL for the Knicks. It is however a steaming pile of dog poo trade for the Suns. Which is about par for just about all of your vaunted trade scenarios. Don't get me wrong Briggs, 95 percent of the time, I wish your trade scenarios would happen. Because it would mean the Knicks would be firebombing every team in the league and gutting them in trades. Except every other team in the league would have to empty out their front offices, as most of your trades are set up to get the non Knicks GM fired.
I simply do not get this "Melo just needs a PG" BS. Melo does not move well off the ball by choice. He's a ball stopper. A point guard doesn't magically make him better. What made him less of a liability is when he had more talent around him that SPECIFICALLY could shade the things he refused to do. Melo was also younger back then, when his iso hero ball crap would have more of his shots fall, even with his craptastic shot selection. Melo does not suddenly become a free flowing player, what Jason Kidd did was set the tone and picked and chose when to push Melo into his hero ball iso routine. That's like the kid who can't stop hitting other kids, they give him boxing gloves and a small hitting bag. You aren't fixing the stupid, you are just facing the kid in a different direction. That's it, that's all you can do with Melo. But the market structure and personnel structure and cap system make it pretty much impossible to build a team that that around him, where all he has to do is be his selfish stupid self in the right corner.
The other issue you are ignoring is that for the Suns to wait so long to move Bledsoe, not only did they shave their market down for no reason, but they limited out the pool of veteran PGs they could look for as help to offer some kind of replacement. (Ulis and Knight are not enough)
You are asking a non Knicks team to operate to their detriment, to trade a solution for them at a lower value than they could have gotten, to only create a new problem on their roster.
This doesn't even begin to reach into Bledsoe being an injury risk.
Of course all your trade scenarios make sense to you, you talk at people, you are not here for discussion, you are here to carpet bomb people without exhibiting any of the critical thinking needed to put yourself into the non Knicks teams shoes. But that would require some baseline socialization and half a shake of actual empathy.
The non Knicks team, at minimum, will operate with the base mode of SELF PRESERVATION at mind. Until that burns through your skull, you will never understand the actual NBA marketplace environment.
7/6/2017 11:12 AM