Dekes For Days
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Trades can be bad value-wise, but still be beneficial or necessary for the involved parties.
A small return doesn't always mean that a team is making a "bad decision". You can have lackluster returns that are good decisions for the franchise. Sometimes the team is limited in what they can do, either by rights of the player, the market, or the current state/trajectory of the team.
One problem is that as fans, especially fans of other teams looking in, we only see individual transactions and judge them (mainly on the ability of the pieces to put up points), while these team executives have plans and advanced stats and tentative deals and additional information and reasons, and we're not getting the whole picture. To be perfectly honest, we as fans don't know the actual value of most of the players we talk about, so it's hard to say exactly how much value was lost or gained.
That said, it is true that some people try to prop up questionable trades with flimsy indirect connections just because they made a good move or had good team results later on.
A small return doesn't always mean that a team is making a "bad decision". You can have lackluster returns that are good decisions for the franchise. Sometimes the team is limited in what they can do, either by rights of the player, the market, or the current state/trajectory of the team.
One problem is that as fans, especially fans of other teams looking in, we only see individual transactions and judge them (mainly on the ability of the pieces to put up points), while these team executives have plans and advanced stats and tentative deals and additional information and reasons, and we're not getting the whole picture. To be perfectly honest, we as fans don't know the actual value of most of the players we talk about, so it's hard to say exactly how much value was lost or gained.
That said, it is true that some people try to prop up questionable trades with flimsy indirect connections just because they made a good move or had good team results later on.