I just want to get a feel for what a lot of you think on where our players rank as trade value, a third a way through the season. This includes prospects that play in europe or the NBDL. Most on here will say Lowry is our top prospect, and I agree but I want to hear where everyone else falls .
If our front office thinks that way then how can you not? Until our team is in championship contender mode they will be assets to me.
1. Lowry 2. NY pick 3. Sammy 4. Parsons 5. Expiring contracts 6. Ppat 7. Bud 8. Martin 9. Morris 10. Scola
I don't like calling them assets either, but hey... 7* Elite assets: none 6* High level assets: Kyle Lowry - Lowry is young, cheap, and a top 5/10 PG. 5* Valuable assets: Kevin Martin, Luis Scola, 2012 NY Pick, Samuel Dalembert - Martin and Scola are proven studs (but not all-stars) and come at a decent price. Their age drops them. The Knicks pick looks to be near the top-10 in a great class. Dalembert is an above average C with only a year left on his contract. 4* Strong assets: Courtney Lee, Patrick Patterson, Goran Dragic, 2012 Hou Pick - Lee, Patterson and Dragic are all young and have proven to be effective in their short careers. All are also cheap. Our pick should be in the teens, as usual. 3* Solid value assets: Chandler Parsons, Marcus Morris, Donatas Motiejunas, Jordan Hill, Chase Budinger - Morris and Motiejunas are 1st rounders who haven't played. Parsons has shown himself to be effective in the past month, and comes with a cheap contract (could move up if he keeps it up). Hill, as a young big man who has shown sporadic flashes of decent play, still has some value. Budinger has shown himself to be a solid offensive player, and is still young. 2* Marginal value assets: Terrence Williams, Jonny Flynn, Hasheem Thabeet - Flynn and Williams both have talent, but Williams can't get it together upstairs and Flynn may never fully recover from injury. Both were lottery picks. Thabeet has a tiny bit of value simply because he was drafted #2. 1* No Real Value: Jeff Adrien
Assets is a fine word to use. I don't get the stigma against its use. I wouldn't feel bad if I was called an asset, companies use that term for personell all the time. Get over it.
If you say "he's an asset to the team when he's playing", that's good. That's a compliment. If you say "he's a trade asset", you are objectifying him. Like he's someone you can use to get another player you really want. Not nice.
Well regardless, the word means worth or value to our team. The ultimate goal is to build a dynasty! That is the dream of every fanatic!
ur kidding right... you think buddinger is more valuable than martin ... i bet you that given the choice any team will pick martin over bud unless they are dumb, and you think people would really want thabeet, flynn, jordan or twill over scola and martin?
well, it took our best scorer (Martin), our best big man (scola), a promising guard (dragic) and a pick just to get an old and pre-owner Gasol. That should tell you the value of our players
