Posted by VDesai:

Jeez...why do we keep dwelling on this "key to the deal" nonsense. It's just a figure of speech or a way of selling a player. Obviously Isiah wouldn't do KVH for TT even up because that's not a fair trade. Getting Nazr put it over the top so to speak, so that's why he's a "key to the deal." He didn't say he thought Nazr was the best player in the deal, or the best player we were getting in the deal or anything like that. But he obviously wouldn't have made the trade if he wasn't gonna get Nazr.

Posted by VDesai:

Jeez...why do we keep dwelling on this "key to the deal" nonsense. It's just a figure of speech or a way of selling a player. Obviously Isiah wouldn't do KVH for TT even up because that's not a fair trade. Getting Nazr put it over the top so to speak, so that's why he's a "key to the deal." He didn't say he thought Nazr was the best player in the deal, or the best player we were getting in the deal or anything like that. But he obviously wouldn't have made the trade if he wasn't gonna get Nazr.

Posted by tomverve:

VDesai ain't sensitive, he's just speaking the plain truth. I'd like to add something to his assessment: trading Nazr DOES NOT mean that getting Nazr was a 'mistake,' or that he was no longer 'the key to the deal,' etc.

Here's what it is. TT for KVH straight up would not have been a good trade for us, so we got an extra asset (Nazr) so that the total package coming in was better than the total package going out. We later turned around and traded Nazr because, again, the total assets coming in were better than the asset we sent out. Plain and simple.