Originally Posted by
Pelicanidae
Hey, have you ever heard of a thing called ''reductio ad absurdum''? It's this neat rhetorical strategy where you show that a point of view is ridiculous by taking it to its extreme and revealing how it inherently creates stupidity.
That's what I was doing. If you take the position that trading Ingram is something that we can't even ''entertain'', then that's basically saying he's untouchable; if you take that to its extreme, as I did, by creating a trade in which not trading Ingram would be stupid, you reveal that the underlying idea of him being untouchable is flawed because it inherently requires you to make stupid choices, as in that hypothetical.
Just a little explanation there for you, since it appears you were having trouble.
Like, what are some more ''reasonable'' trades that aren't ridiculous that I'd do? I'd move Ingram for Tatum, for example, pretty quickly, just as the quickest possible example. Would Boston do it? Probably not, but it's not inherently stupid in the way that the hypothetical trade was, and it's a position you could probably work with; adding picks or extraneous players to tailor it up to suitability.
Of course, you might argue that the price that would cost in things like picks would make it too high, but then we're having a discussion. We're entertaining the idea of possibly trading him: something I was told would be ''totally ridiculous''.