Seeing the footsteps of the 2022-23 season approaching, there are still people who are not willing to give up the weishao trade. Today, in an interview with Heavy, an NBA executive gave a plan for the Lakers and the piston to deal with Wei Shao. However, the piston of this plan is acceptable, but the Lakers are somewhat unacceptable.
The plan given by the senior manager was: The Lakers sent weishao out and signed the first round in 2027, exchanging kenba Walker, Olinick, Noelle and Burks from the piston. The piston took over the contract of weishao, looking at the first round of unprotected signing in 2027, and cleared the lineup at the same time, making every effort to dive towards the Green Army chief Stevens’s “challenges in the next 10 years” Wen banyama, or at least join the regiment, which is understandable. However, the Lakers are inevitably embarrassed when facing this plan.
The first wind appeared in weishao’s trading, which was before the closing date of this year’s trading. At that time, the Lakers could not find a suitable trading partner in the league. The rocket’s wall was the only feasible target. Leaving Wei to the off-season, the Lakers did have more options, ranging from Owen basketable nets to walkers Miles Turner and Hilde, to jazz veterans who were in urgent need of sale, it even includes Spurs. However, the Lakers turned around, but a feeling of “I can’t change what I like, but what I can exchange is not.
After Owen stayed in the team, the Lakers were a little excited. Owen was also the only one willing to pay two first-round signatures for the Lakers. When talking about deals with Pacers and jazz, the Lakers tightened purse, we are determined not to let go of the two first-round signatures; Until we get entangled with Spurs and the piston, the Lakers even feel that only one first-round signature is lost. The trading partners found by the Lakers in the weishao trading negotiations can be roughly divided into these three levels. The lower the grade, the less the Lakers are willing to pay. From the trading deadline to the offseason, now the Lakers are dragging on another cycle.
The executive who proposed this plan also accidentally said that the 4 sent by the piston would be “scrap copper and iron”, and later he changed his mouth to say that if he promised this transaction, the Lakers will also get some deals and veterans to increase the depth of the lineup. He concluded from this: The transaction is still win-win and can be considered.
Is that true? Piston 4 will have a three-person contract that can be canceled in 2023 (the contract between Burks and Noelle expires in 2024, but the last year is the team option; The ollinick contract will also expire in 2024, partial guarantee in the last year), which is the same as weishao. However, when these contracts are to be dealt with, the difficulty is different.
There is only one Wei Shao. Although he did not perform well last season (it may not be easy to improve in the new season), after all, he was once an MVP with a reputation and good commercial value. Even Dream Green also said that it was very easy to send Wei less to the rotten team. However, even if the piston 4 will reach the trading deadline, it basically does not have the trading value. The only value is to cancel the contract during the offseason, which will free up some salary space for the Lakers.
In other words, the Lakers hold Wei less in their hands and can still wait for customers to come to inquire at any time in at least the next year. In exchange for the piston 4, the Lakers can only wait passively until the off-season in 2023, before that, it was basically impossible to move. Besides, he can also free up the salary space for the Lakers until the 2023 offseason. Therefore, there is no need to discuss the technical and tactical adaptation of piston 4 (3 role players +1 former All-Star, and it is difficult to boost the combat power of the Lakers), only from the difficulty of subsequent processing, the Lakers can only laugh at the plan that the executive imagined.
Let’s look at the piston. From chasing Elton to keeping in touch with Wei, the piston also experienced some adjustment of the team’s goals during the off-season this year.
Once, the piston was the biggest competitor for the Sun to retain Elton. As early as May this year, when the media opened the odds of Alton’s next home, the piston ranked first. In late June, the famous Marc Stein also reported that Ayton had made a nod to the champion of the piston partner and even made a verbal promise that auto city was expected to form a double champion group, only waiting for the Sun to release people. But before long, the piston withdrew from the Alton battle sadly. Finally, the Sun waited for the invitation contract issued by the walkers. Although the amount was the largest in history, the speed of light matched.
In other words, the attitude of the piston was aggressive. This is based on their confidence in the new champion Kai De-Corning ham, and it is also related to the improvement of the piston in the second half of last season. To this end, the piston sent Gerami grant away, handed the team truncheon to Corning ham, and found an insider partner like Elton for him. With such a great effort, the piston will naturally not only be satisfied with playing the edge ball in the playoffs, but hope to make a difference in the playoffs.
However, after Elton was beaten with flying eggs, the piston immediately turned and listed Wen banyama as a new target together with Spurs and jazz. And this also means that the piston’s record is still not visible in the new season, and it is almost a foregone conclusion that the playoffs have been missed for four consecutive seasons.
In short, the scheme proposed by the executive is beneficial to the piston, but it does not see how much benefit the Lakers can get. It is destined to be only an assumption. After this episode, the Lakers will also take the current lineup and move towards a confusing new season like “the garden where the path branches. (Supine support/fur)