NBA Trade Deadline.
I'm A Simple Man.
Ok Maybe, Not So Simple, But I'm AN observant Man.
I Watched A Story Circle The Reporting circuit, A Few Times, Then Lunged Into Details With A Birds Eye View Because It Rings In Me.
I'm Bond To Develop an Opinion Or Draw On Some Contrarian Conclusion That’s Absent Within The Highest Wall Of Expedient Journalism.
That’s Where We Start On The Trade Deadline.
The Tales Of A Over Stimulated Blogger
Forgive If I'm Wrong, But It Seems To Me That The NBA Has Stumbled Into another Era Of Reviving A Weaning Popular. While The NFL Has Wavered Many Storms Over The Pasts Few Year's And I'm Not Saying This To Give The League “Lip” Service. The NFL Never Needed A RECOVERY plan It Purpose An Therefore It Resulted.
The NBA Still Has Some Rekindle To Propose. It's Daytime Monologue Are Consistent With The Ones We Had Pre-Covid.
Writer Facetiously Tell Tales About How The End To The Ben Simmon’s Saga Cut The Cord For So Many Content Creators.
Aside From This Now assuaged Simmons’s Drama.
The Subterfuge Of Laker Struggles, Lebron’s Conflict With The Laker’s Brass, and In What Ways Anothony Davis Needs To Step Up To Put This Team Over Are Still Burning The Columns And Lighting The Trails Of Life Day To Day Discussion.
TheN CAME The Trade Deadline Renaissance To The Rescue.
Because Of the Threat, Or Angling, Of Max Contracts Coupled With The Escalating Value In Draft Picks Tender. For a few years, the Trade Deadline Has Continued To Be Nothing More Than A Formality.
You Can Thank Brooklyn For That.
But There’s A Capacious Hesitancy in Teams To Make franchise Altering Decisions In The Name Of Bigs Stakes and short Term Boom Or Bust. Team's Buying Big And Paying Later Has Resulted In The NBA’s Version Of The Great Recession.
The Same Headlines Are Microwavable Meals—Leftover These Past two Years.
Bradley Beal Spectaculion That Have Mercifully Come to Deafening Halt With Emerging Reports of A SEASONing Ending Wrist Surgery. No Beal To Warriors.
Surprising Without Beal, We Had A Few Deals. The Leg Workers Of The League, We In The Media, Can Rivel IN and Speculate About With Dreamlike Whim.
Several High-Mid Level Deals That Have Value As Noteworthy, Not Rector Scale Shifting Like The Brooklyn Deal A DECADE Ago.
On The Blockbuster Scale, These Deal Are Far From “Infinity Saga” Stuff More “Ant-man:2”, “Thor Ragnarok” Stuff:
I'll Breakdown Some Of The Trades. Some of What I Have read and My Assessments Of The Deal. The Reports Come From All around. Lately, I'll Credit The Athletic. All Note Noteworthy Stats are Of NBA.com.
“I Dont Quite Understand “Why”?”
I Write a lot About My Phone Buzzing Periodically. Wait There It Goes Again.
“Plug Call, I Don't Need It, I DONT need it.”
Except for Beal, Harden, Simmons, and La La Land, it's Been Quiet. Then We Got The Surprising Tyrese Haliburton Deal From Sacramento.
The Second Year Guard Who Finished First Team Rookie Despite An Injury Cutting What Most Expected To His Rookie Of The Year Run Short Had Been The kings' Best Player And what Many Believed To Be A Centerpiece For a Possibly King’s Resurgence.
Then The Trade Came Through.
He, Haliburton Along With Sharp Shooter Buddy Hield, Quietly Second To Steph Curry In Three-Point Shots Made from Deep, Whose Contract Began To Dour In SAC-Town and Big Man Tristan Thompson We're Ship To The Hoosier State, To Suit Up For The Pacers. In Exchanged The Kings Will Receive All-Star Domantas Sabonis As Well as Veteran Wings Jeremy Lamb And Justin Holiday
Holiday And Lamb Aren't Just Throw Ins. Two Lanky Wings With Genuine Scoring Prowess and Versatility On The Perimeter Can Help The Kings Offense, That’s Middle To Low In the Pack Compete Now. Most Notably, Holiday An Exceptional Three-Point Shooter To Replace What They Lost in Buddy. Sabonis, The All-Star Center Piece. Averaging Nearly Twenty In 12 In Rebounds And Five On The Boards.
Sabonis Skill Set Harkens on MVP Nikola Jokic High Usage Pivot Centers Who Control Th Ball Ad direct Traffic On Offense Excellent Floor Spacer With Natural Feel around The Basket But Lacks Agility and Awareness On Defense. Still, He’ll Be A Stalwart Inconsistency One If Alvin Gentry Can Configure The Best Lineup For Him.
The Tricks To This trade, The Upheaval Created After The Finalization, Center on The Inclusion Of One Tyrese Halliburton’s Primary Battering “Chip” In the Matter. The 6’3 Combo Guard Has Been One Of the Few Bright Spots For A KINGS Franchise Trap In A MEDIEVAL Famine Of Playoff Success. The Kings 15 Year Drought, It's Tied For Longest In The League History. Not Since The Man Formerly Known As Ron Artest Roamed The Blocks Northern California.
Not To Mention That The Kings Have Had Some Soured Luck In The Draft Despite Being So Inept. Except for Demarcus Cousins, Whom They Were Forced To Trade, Isaiah Thomas Whom. The 60th in 2011 May Have Been The Best Pick, Up Until De’Aaron Fox And Haliburton. After Making Speedy Progress In His Development Since 2017, Fox Had a Slow Get OFF. Struggling Offensively and Battling Injuries. Fox Gained Projections as One of the Future Elite Guards Of The League In Tow With Morant, But Now the Former Fifth Pick doesn't Appear To Be THE franchise Difference Maker Anymore.
That's Where Haliburton Stepped In. At Pick Number 12, Two Years Ago The Kings Drafted The Best Player Available. In A Weak Draft That may Come To Rival 2013, Headlined By Lamelo Ball Haliburton Casually Motioned Into The Kings Grasp As A Low Floor Prospect Who Could develop Into A Lead Guard Under The Right Coaching. Haliburton Immediately Became an Impact Player For The Kings. He Averaged 13 Points 5.3 Before The Injury, and those Number Hit The High-Level Contribution At 18.5 And Nine Assist When Went Out Of The Lineup.
The Kings Have a Worrisome Track Record With Lottery Picks.
Adverse Effect that Anything More than the Kings Fail To Make A Selection Counts as The Brass Succeeded as a Success. The Kings Turn The Tale, and They Struck Gold With Haliburton.
Tyreese, He’s A Heady Player . His Three-Point Shooting Gave Then Head Coach Luke Walton Flexibility At Guard, Not Enough To Save His Job But Enough To Force Some Re-Evaluation Of the Team Direction And Timeline, Which May have Ultimately cost him the Job.
Walton Couldn’t Exhibit The Range Needed To Maximize Said Flexibility.
Tyrese Handled The Offense For The Kings
And The Pacers Believe They Have a “franchise Caliber Guy” In Return For Their All-Star. He’s Averaging Around 14 Points, seven assists, And 4 Rebounds.
Around The League, The Tyrese Has Near Folkloric Appeal. The Kid Has No Decorators, and Instead, The Kings Have Taken The Brunt Of Censure For Trading What's Believed To Be Their Best Players “the most balanced and flexible” Bishop On Their Chess. Compared To Steve Nash Some Instances, Chris Paul In Others, and Even Former King Mike Bibby For His command Of the Offense, The Prospects Are That This Could be a Future Perennial All-Star, But I Don't See It. He Can Almost Do It All For A Team That’s Willing To Put The Team In His Hands.
Haliburton Took To Twitter To Remorsefully Bid Fare Well To Sac-Town, But He’ll Have Less Of Blog Jam To Fend Off In The Rotation In Hoosier Ville. In 2021 The Kings Were Once again Force To Daft, The Best Player Available In Davion Mitchell. Similar Profile Guy With A SHORT Stacked Frame. With De’Aaron Fox’s Albatross Of A CONTRACT and Mitchell Still Being Evaluated And Not As Esteem as Haliburton, The Move Made Some Sense.
Haliburton's Numbers Have Jump To Around 18/8/ And Plus 40% From The Line These Past Two Months Under Gentry. Leaping To Nineteen points, ten assists, shooting 50 From The Field, and 39 percent from three over the 12 games As The Sole Controller Of The Offense With Fox’s Absence.
If You've never Seen Haliburton Play, Which Wouldn’t Surprise anyone. He’s Quiet and Unassuming 21 Year Old With Lanky Arms And Sinewy Frame. A Ball Screen Savant. PREFECT for Squeezing Through On Lane And Corridors Open in Today's Heavy Screen And Roll Action Games. His Sound Features Or Play Style Don’t Evoke Marketability.
He’s Reminiscent Of His Now Teammate Malcolm Brogdon, at least In Demeanor And Playstyle. There In Lies The Issue For Me. Brogdon Remains Out Due To Injury. When He Returns To The Backcourt With Burton, The Pacers Will Employ The Steadiest Backcourt Unit In The East Prospectively. But Neither Screamed “Star.”
It's Sometimes Difficult To Judge A PLAYER who played UNDER inauspicious Circumstances Early. Several Young Players Transformed to Stars After Escaping Log Jams, James Harden Nad Jermaine O’Neal to List A Few. It Will Remain To See How Indy And Coach Carlile Utilize Him.
The Other “Faux” Blockbuster Trade Of The Presession, The James Harden-Ben Simmons Trade.
The Trade: The Nets Traded James Harden and Paul Millsap to the 76ers for Ben Simmons, Seth Curry, Andre Drummond, and two first-round picks. Harden Immediately Opted Into His 47. million Dollar Player Option For the Next Season Giving The Sixers Half A Season To Furnish Their Championship Roster.
The Nets Choose Harden, Harden Didn't Choose The Nets. Therefore Everybody Got What They Wanted; Except Ben Simmons.
After Playing Virtually No Time Together, The Nets The Phantasm Of The Nets Big Three Vanishes.
How they Cajoled Two Picks Of Philly In The Mix For A Declining James Harden With Bens Simmons Mystifies Me. But They Had To Recoup The Losses From The Harden Trade of A Year Ago
.Harden Made The All-Star Team, But He Hasn’t played up To Elite Standards This Season.
In 44 Games, His Average Or 22 Points, Eight Rebounds, And 10 Assist On the Surface are Brillant but Depressing Under The Hood.
For Brooklyn, he’s Shooting The Three At The Lowest Conversion Rate In His Career. Shot Creation And Efficiency Are Also Have Also Hit All-Time Lows. His Usage Rate Remain One Of the Tops; He Leads The League In Time Of Possession, In The leagues But His Effective Shooting Percentage Dropped To Its Lowest In His Career. Some How his 4.8 Turnovers are Only The Third Highest Of His Career.
His Entry Into The Wells Fargo Should Come With Boosted Morale, And added Motivation, To Return To Uber-MVP Form. After all, He Originally Requested To Move To Philly. Philly Surrender An Intriguing Piece In Seth Curry. The Sharpshooters Production Now Crosses Over For Hardens But One Of These two Shoots Over Forty Percent. The Other Not So Much.
Philly Remained A GOOD defensive Team Structurally But Accommodating The Defensive Dead Spot Of Harden Could Take Some Maneuvering. They have Tyrese Maxey And Matise Thybule, Two Players Philly We're Adamant Wouldn’t Be Available In Trade To Talks. They'll Assuage the impact Some, But The Playoffs Are Another Problem Given That Neither Could Save The Sixers From Trae Young Last Year, And The Bulls Have Two Dynamic Player In Their Backcourt The Season.
Harden and Embiid Can Be A New Shaq Kobe Duo, Though well past its prime.
The Deal For Brooklyn Makes No Sense and Some Sense At The Same Time. I Know Thats Counterintuitive But Let's Un Pack the Pieces. On A Percentage Scale Of Fit And Functionality. It's A 35% If I Had To Given A Grade.
Of course, the Highlight of The Trade would Be One Ben Simmons. Who Can Emerge From His Corner and Into The Lights In Barclays? Theoretically, Simmons, One Of The Best Perimeter Defenders In The League, would Immediately Assuage Some of The Nets Defensive Woes. Presently The Nets are Middle Tier In Defensive Rating.
They Were The Worst Team Defensively Entering The Playoffs Last Season, And Simmons’sElite Switch-ability Will Immediately reflect The team's Results That Way...
Offensively How does Simmons Fits Alongside Th Nets Other Star? He Doesn't.
Ben's Basketball Wizard Evokes Theme Of Tantalizing Dream Of A basketball Player His Size and Playmaking Acuity.
Out on The NBA airways, A Call For Ben Simmons To Summon His Inner Draymond Green. The Two All-Star Share A Similar Physical Profile And Skill Set With The Exception Simmons, Being Taller and the Better Athlete and Dray Having a Better Basketball Functionality And Floor Spacing Contribution.
The Trouble.
PLAYERS like Draymond And, Therefore, Simmons Are Rare Cases. They Function Within Offenses That Highlight Their Strengths and Gloss Over Their Weaknesses. How Well Would Draymond Reflect If He Were Outside Of Golden state? Would-Be anyone Guess? The Skill Set doesn't Translate Across Systems Like More Obvious Tangible Skills like spot-up shooting And Player Movement. Draymond’s Ability To Diagnose And Breakdown Windows As The Open up In A Half Court Offensive Set, an Intangible Attributes, Isn't Quite attractive on a team Like The Nets where when Things Breakdown Pass It Off To Kd And Move.
The Nets Are The Highest Rank Team In The NBA in Isolation Per Possession The Warriors are One Of The Lowest.
On Offense Simmons Struggles To Produce Tangible Value Outside Of Fast Break.
In the Half Court, He Stares Over Half Court Sets With Hawkish Scouring To Find Open Lanes With Talon Like PrecisionPasses. Those Glorified Passing Skills Have Proven TonBe His Undoing.
Neither Kyrie Nor KD Is Known For Their Prowess With Moving Without the Ball, Which Means Simmons Floor Awareness Won't Be Such A Factor For Team Success.
Moreover, the Nets Utilize The Pick N Roll With Some Efficiency but Putting Ben Simmons In Pick, And Switch Situations only Further Exacerbates His Offensive Limitations.
The Last Issuance Of Simmons In The Dive Screen? A product Of Jimmy Butler Operating The Philly Offense. It Worked But Never Seemed To Be The Optimum Use Of Either Talents.
The Nets Offense Operates In The Half Court.
It's an Old Rotation Of Players The Results, A-Team Middle Ground In Any Meaningful Statistical Category, Including Fast Break Where Ben Simmons Produced More Than 50% Of Whatever Offense He Generated.
Simmons Has Noted Failures In The Playoffs, And That’s Before we Consider The Out proper Meltdown Against Atlanta. While Expected Kevin Durant And Kyrie To Cover Simmons Offense Pitfalls, Durant Himself has Proven Capable Of Stringing Together a Few Otherworldly Offensive Performances To Lift His Team Over. Teams will have one less than Man Account For Due The Simmons’s Reluctancy.
Ultimately, I believe that Seth Curry Will Prove To Be The True Jem Of This Trade as He Pairs Well With Patty Mills.
Ben Simmons Now serves As A Greater TRADE chip(again)This Summer Once The Revelation Of His Incongruous Playstyle Comes To Light.
Report Was That Simmons, Who Hasn’t Evolved Much, Wanted To Be Play In Oakland With Curry And Klay, But The Warriors Commitment To Andrew Wiggins Negated any Chance Of That That They and Philly Could Strike A DEAL.
The T-Wolves We're Another Destination That Simmons Favored and Who Favored Him.
Simmons Would Reunite With Highschool Teammate DeAngelo Russell In Minnesota.
The Issue There, What Would The Nets Receive In Return. The Timberwolves Brass Are Adamant That D Lo Remains an Apart Of Their Future. A Russel Trade Works The Plan The Organization Has in Place Backwards.
Given D’Angelo’s relationship With Karl-Anthony Towns, Russel Would Be The Glue Guy For Both Towns And Simmons. He is leaving Former Number 1 Pick Anthony Edwards As The Odd Man Out As Trade Asset.
Would The Timberwolves Be Willing To Move From Their Young Budding Star In Exchange For Simmons, Who Comes Fully Bloomed But Limited?
The Nets have been Endlessly Reshuffling The Deck Since Making The Move To Brooklyn. Banking On Big Budget Moves Rather Than The Development Trails. In This Forth Iteration Of The Team, Their Still Trying T Make The Model Work.
When GM Sean Mark Secured The Job In 2016, He Reproofed Then Owner Mikhail Prokhorov Aggressive Retooling Of Stars. Instead, Marks proposed A Plan A Development Model That Could Take Up To Seven Years Before Brooklyn Are-Entered Contention. Yet Here We Are.
Just Like “The Process,” Which Daryl Morey May Have Ended With The James Harden Trade, The Nets Are Caught In Their Self Perpetuating Cycle.
