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Originally posted by Rashidi!
Time for a round of "What if". What if the Knicks didn't make this trade?
The Knicks go after Dampier instead of Crawford.
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Faulty logic. Offering GS Nazr was the only thing that got us close to Damp. The expirings we gave Chi meant nothing to GS as Damp was coming off books. The only chance they played was in also taking Esch off their hands. But bottom line is they got that plus 2 first round picks elsewhere and that's something we just couldn't match (ditto Carter). But a decent big like Nazr was attractive to them and would clearly have been a better player for them than Foyle.
So the irony is that it would never have been that we go for Damp instead of Nazr, as Nazr was the best thing we had to offer for Damp.
I think they same will hold true for us in the future. The best recipe for a solid bigman in the future will be a combination of expiring contracts (for which TT and KVH are of roughly equal value) and Nazr. Doleac would have never made for good trade bait, Nazr does. So regardless of which duo makes for better on-the-floor performance now, for a future trade TT/Nazr is a much more potent combination than KVH/Doleac.
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