NBA Trades

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

Thats a good question. You would take a proven mediocrity for a player that could be any kind?

I don't consider a guy that can get me 16 and four assists a night as mediocrity. There are maybe 20-25 guys in the league that score more. It's not a superstar by any means but I don't see it as mediocrity. If they were to take a guy like Harden or Evans or DeRozan, I don't see any of those guys being better. Potential can go either way. I'd rather take a guy that's proven over one that at best, shows the potential only to be slightly better. We see potentially great players every year that don't pan out. Recently, look at guys like Adam Morrison, JJ Redick, Corey Brewer, Brandon Wright, Jerryd Bayless, Martell Webster, Gerald Green, Eddie Griffin, Stromile Swift, Darius Miles...the list goes on and on. All of those guys were higher regarded than Harden, Evans, and De Rozan and none of them has become much of anything. When you are a team that's at or near the top and you aren't needing a guy to come in right away and produce, you can take a chance with getting one of these high potential guys over a proven NBA producer and wait for him to develop. When you are a team like the Wizards, you can't.