MarkusNaslund19
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The J.T. Miller trade is a home run anyway you look at it. We have seen what happens to teams when you don't add any good, prime aged players and just let them languish. They become terrible and the culture becomes broken.Hughes is great. So is Petey. But, like you point out, both are young and a couple to three years from really hitting their best. What turns my stomach is Benning, although knowing these top guys are two to three years away from competing at their best, trades away Madden, a first, a second, and a third for two players who are older, and won’t be here when Hughes and Petey hit their best years. Benning wastes picks and prospects that are needed to support Petey and Hughes. It’s this lack of planning (and clear counterintuitive actions) by Benning that make it hard to stay interested in the team’s future.
On the Toffoli trade, not retaining him was stupid, but it wasn't Benning's call.
The trade made some sense to me.
People really forget how much of sports is psychological.
Last year, we had a much better year than anyone could have really expected. Then Boeser went down and it threatened to sewer our team.
I believe that Benning wanted to throw the young core a bone and say, "I've got your back", by making a move so that their first foray into success wasn't wasted.
A trade to acquire a guy like Toffoli would have made no sense if we had an older core (e.g. 2014-15), but when you're simultaneously trying to have some success, while also trying to build the big game experience of an almost infantile core, I can see the rationale.
The thing to see is whether Benning was ultimately correct about Madden's upside. If he ends up being a Mike Santorelli level player, you don't mind the trade. If he's a Kyle Turris, that was a steep, steep price.