So, today I got a trade offer from Idaho. It's been weeks. Today he offered me Tyreke Evans and Nick Young for Derrick Rose. Of course he included the comments that Tyreke at $18 bucks would be an awesome keeper to protect alongside Carlos Boozer. While I'm not going to disagree that Tyreke has value as a potential keeper - it's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too early to make this sort of trade. This is last minute desperation at best. It's not a good trade for me in week 8.
Tyreke is a talented player. He averaged 20-5-5 last season. One of few rookies to approach those numbers. However, he's currently injured and has not played well this season. Is he worth keeping at $23 bucks? Absolutely. But I think he has a lot to prove over the coming months of this NBA season. Can he stay healthy? What is his injury exactly? And how does it get better? If the remedy is to take 8 weeks off from basketball activities then I'm not really interested in his services right now. And how is his injury going to affect him next season? Does it linger? Does he have ongoing problems for the rest of his career?
You know how you always over-value your own players? It's very common when you have middle of the road players to over-value them and what they 'could' do down the line. Now, imagine how I value Derrick Rose. A player who is clearly playing some great basketball right now. Rose is #5 in the NBA in scoring right now. He's learned to shoot 3 pointers (over 40% currently). He's averaging a steal a game (up from last season) and his ATO is over 2.000. Rose is having his best season ever. What's my point? It's going to take a lot more than Tyreke to get him.
Part of the reason for my stiff demands is that I already have a plethora of potential keepers. Depending on where I finish in the standings I might only be able to keep 1, 2, or 3 guys. I already have a bunch of players that could be good values for next season. So if I'm going to move Rose it has to be for a player who I know is severely under-priced and is a good or better bargain than any of the current players I can protect for next season.
I posted a JBL poll today asking what others thought about potential keepers for next season (looking at the current top 6 JBL teams). All of them have some good keepers. Some have more than others. Seoul has Scola. He's a good value at that price. Will Seoul move him? If it means it improves his team -then yes he would. Will Arctic move Love or Beasley? I don't know. We haven't had to see that side of Crikker in some time. I know Benny, Rick, Hildy, and Tuna would all make moves if it meant their team got better. So, it will be interesting to see who they target as players who could help them.
I would think players in Golden like Rose, Aldridge, and Deng would be of interest.
Maui has Andrew Bogut and Danny Granger. And before you go knocking Trev that he doesn't make any deals - I think it needs to be pointed out that he has already made a couple this season - which is more than can be said of some other JBL teams.
Belgrade has Odom, Carmelo, and Monta.
Brussels has Zach, Brook Lopez, Iguodala, and Wallace.
Juan de Fuca has Durant, Kidd, and Bargnani.
My point is that all the lower tiered teams do have talent that the top teams may want to add in exchange for one of their keepers.
Arctic needs blocks. Is it hard to fathom that he would go to Maui to try and get Bogut? What about a Love/Beasley for Granger/Bogut trade?
And if any top team wanted to improve their scoring - wouldn't they go to Juan de Fuca to inquire about Durant - or to Belgrade for Monta - or to Golden for Rose?
I think this season's keeper trade deadline will be very busy....
I think my next poll will be around who the best keepers are for 2011...
Is it Curry? Love? Beasley? Boozer? Ibaka? Fields? Gay?
There are a number of choices. I think I would find it very difficult to narrow it down to just 10 choices.
Anyways, that's discussion for another day....
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