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January 10, 2015We all know what the Cavaliers traded for Timofey Mozgov, but we haven’t seen him play for the Cavs just yet. Regardless, this is the NBA and it’s important to decide whether a trade was worth it or not as soon as possible. At Pro Basketball Talk, Kurt Helin and Jenna Corrado discuss it and regardless of the price, Hellin agrees the Cavaliers had to do it.
It certainly helps that the Cavs traded picks that weren’t theirs and it’s hard to look at Mozgov without also looking at their overall acquisitions in this little trade period, but they paid a lot for the center. Still, with a team like the Cavs with LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love, it would have been a shame to not see them go out and find someone to help make up for the loss of Anderson Varejao. Timofey Mozgov certainly does that.
Now, let’s see him play a game for the Cavs before we do anymore analysis…
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In my mind the question isn’t so much whether or not the Cavs paid too much for Timofey, but whether or not they could have found someone else equal or better than Timofey for a lot less than 2(1) 1st round draft picks. Hmmm…
They paid to much for sure but really didn’t have a choice.
they paid too much because they jettisoned zeller AND signed verajo to an untradeable contract :/
If you just look at the Mosgov deal as one separate deal and you THINK those two picks were actual 1st round picks, then yes they paid too much. But a person needs to go back to just right before the Cavs traded Waiters. The Cavs had an expiring contract, Waiters and that fairly old “1st round” pick that simply is nearly impossible to actuate. That pick is protected 2015, 2016 and 2017 when it then becomes a protected 2nd round pick that is bottom protected.
Let that sink in first b/c it’s important to understand the Cavs were over the cap. They had no assets other than an expiring contract worth enough just to absorb Shumpert’s contract. How David Griffin got that contract is pretty amazing in the first place b/c they had nothing to start the year to trade with.
Since there were two trades within a very short period of time and what the Cavs had to offer, I look at the big picture and see David Griffin once again got an outstanding haul.
The Cavs, in less than a week, traded Waiters, that expiring contract they didn’t have at the beginning of the season, two bottom of the bench guys that have already been dumped by the Knicks no less and that’s it. They needed wing D and a backup SG that could put up some points and defend while they also needed a C. And they got all plus a 2nd round pick.
That’s a haul. Good Job David Griffin.