last year's trade for Jrue Holiday was one-sided
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Blattman
I've always be torn by this trade and it's not better nowadays. I mean people kept saying that the pels basically gave up Noel and Gary Harris for Jrue, but it doesn't make any sense. They gave up the number 6 in the 2013 draft, it could have been Noel, but also MCW, Burke, Steven Adams or Antetokoumpo. Same thing with this year pick, people speaks about Stauskas or Harris or McDermott, but what about Rodney Hood, James Young, Yusuf Nurkic, Dario Saric, Kyle Anderson, KJ MCDaniels ?
I mean is our actual core better going forward than something like Evans/Gordon/Davis/Lopez/Anderson/Rivers + Antetokoumpo/Nurkic or MCW/Hood or even Noel/Young ? This question seems very legitimate to me.
You have to question whether we would have been able to sign or even tried to sign Tyreke Evans if we would have went down that path. So I don't think you can include him in that hypothetical core.
I don't think he signs with us without Holiday. It was our teams full potential(Holiday/Gordon/Ryno/Davis) that pushed him over the edge I think.
I don't think we sign him because he only hurts our chances at Wiggins/Parker/Embiid. No doubt if we didn't make the move for Holiday we would have had our eyes set on a higher draft pick. Evans would have only hurt those chances.