Raptors - Pistons (Pre-TC)

[quady]

Darius is pretty good, 22, and the big market is super thin. Don't think this is an overpay at all

[Jesse]

might be misunderstanding the message of some of the comments but i've seen it happen a few times recently and thought i'd reiterate what a lot of the league has already voiced: explicitly saying someone got fleeced or insinuating it is super annoying. it just makes people too guarded and discourages fun trades which we all enjoy

also interesting that you rarely see these insinuations on some of the recent trades where you could argue that an O6 guy got smoked

To clarify my emoji, it was bc I wanted bazley and jwoo never made me a counter!! Smh

[Merv]

might be misunderstanding the message of some of the comments but i've seen it happen a few times recently and thought i'd reiterate what a lot of the league has already voiced: explicitly saying someone got fleeced or insinuating it is super annoying. it just makes people too guarded and discourages fun trades which we all enjoy

also interesting that you rarely see these insinuations on some of the recent trades where you could argue that an O6 guy got smoked

To clarify my emoji, it was bc I wanted bazley and jwoo never made me a counter!! Smh

A man that sends THAT many text messages clearly just got lost in the sauce. My guy was probably in flow state last night

[jwoo]

might be misunderstanding the message of some of the comments but i've seen it happen a few times recently and thought i'd reiterate what a lot of the league has already voiced: explicitly saying someone got fleeced or insinuating it is super annoying. it just makes people too guarded and discourages fun trades which we all enjoy

also interesting that you rarely see these insinuations on some of the recent trades where you could argue that an O6 guy got smoked

To clarify my emoji, it was bc I wanted bazley and jwoo never made me a counter!! Smh

my apologies

[Derek]

might be misunderstanding the message of some of the comments but i've seen it happen a few times recently and thought i'd reiterate what a lot of the league has already voiced: explicitly saying someone got fleeced or insinuating it is super annoying. it just makes people too guarded and discourages fun trades which we all enjoy

also interesting that you rarely see these insinuations on some of the recent trades where you could argue that an O6 guy got smoked

I geniunely think it's an interesting trade, not sure how I feel about it yet. I know the O6 shits on each other via text, please feel free to shit on me when I make bad trades!

[Derek]

Also Barnes is a bit skilled to be getting cut no?

Not that this really needs an explanation lol - I would have loved to be able to get some value for Barnes, but it was a roster spot crunch for this to process before TC, and when I realized what the situation was, I offered him to RB (who previously wanted him) in this deal, but he had clearly gone to sleep.

It was late and I thought Ashes was running TC overnight, and the only two players in my team who I can cut are Barnes or Crowder, everyone else is in my future plans. So I had to make an annoying choice. Crowder led SFs in TS% or something last season and I thought he’d have more trade value and a smaller dead cap hit.

Since that didn’t happen I offered Barnes back to RB this morning in this deal, I am waiting to see if he’s gonna take him or not, if he doesn’t then whatever. Believe me I would much rather have roster space for someone who I could trade on his own for like 200 RP, and not have $5m in dead cap!

Didn't mean to strike a nerve here, just seemed like a bit of a tanking move but all good

[jwoo]

Also Barnes is a bit skilled to be getting cut no?

Not that this really needs an explanation lol - I would have loved to be able to get some value for Barnes, but it was a roster spot crunch for this to process before TC, and when I realized what the situation was, I offered him to RB (who previously wanted him) in this deal, but he had clearly gone to sleep.

It was late and I thought Ashes was running TC overnight, and the only two players in my team who I can cut are Barnes or Crowder, everyone else is in my future plans. So I had to make an annoying choice. Crowder led SFs in TS% or something last season and I thought he’d have more trade value and a smaller dead cap hit.

Since that didn’t happen I offered Barnes back to RB this morning in this deal, I am waiting to see if he’s gonna take him or not, if he doesn’t then whatever. Believe me I would much rather have roster space for someone who I could trade on his own for like 200 RP, and not have $5m in dead cap!

Didn't mean to strike a nerve here, just seemed like a bit of a tanking move but all good

I didn't view it as consequential because Barnes isn't playing big minutes over Okoro, Scottie or Amen regardless, those guys are the centerpieces of my team build and are going to play a lot. If you are going to take the time to call me out, I'm going to give an explanation so people understand what I'm doing. It's not a big deal, but there is no need to be passive aggressive about it

[Clinton]

Also Barnes is a bit skilled to be getting cut no?

Makes leftovers extremely fun now

[Clinton]

I would like to state JWoo wouldve taken Dragan for The Big Ragu but i didnt trust you goons enough to give Donte only 5m. Thus Barnes. SO BLAME ME!

[Derek]

Jwoo and I texted and made up, ELE