jom2003
Well-Known Member
yeah, right. So you do know the context matters, right? What if there's some injury concerns with Bogey, or FO thought he could not sustain that peak and would go downhill soon, or get along with teammates? We aren't running the jazz organization so we don't have the inside knowledge. To say that we absolutely should not be trading Bogey simply because he's playing some good basketball at the moment would be far too premature. And trust me, when a trade does occur before deadline, it'll be done specifically with purpose of getting us better and closer towards championship contention, not to collect as many draft picks as possible and start rebuild, that is the one thing we do know. Like Celtics didn't trade IT to get worse, they traded IT to acquire Kyrie who is a better player and NBA champ.Oh I hope you weren't thinking that I have been saying that its always bad to trade high or that you should never trade high. I wasn't saying that, just in case you didn't know.
I would inquire to you if that celtics team was just coming off a season when they were the number seed though and if they had this incredibly small window of contention at that time (like the jazz do)
Maybe they thought it would be ok to get a little worse in the short term, since they weren't going to have a shot at title anyways, to get better in the long term. Maybe they saw some injury concerns with IT. Maybe they thought he could not sustain that peak and would go downhill soon. Maybe he didn't get along with teammates. I dont know why they made that trade as I wasn't running the celtics organization at that time.
I just dont think that teams are typically thinking "man, this guy is playing amazing right now. We should try to get rid of him." At least not teams in the running for a title. For every example that can be provided of a team selling high I can give 10 examples of teams keeping a player when they are peaking.