These proposals are really truly awful. You basically have the other teams trading us either their best players or their young prospects for our veteran role players.
Trading young prospects for proven veteran role players happens, and sometimes it's good for both teams.
It has happened. It's certainly not common. The homer coefficient on this trades was pretty high. If it was just one or two trades that looked that way I would have probably just let it go. Every trade machine link I clicked on was worse than the last. We either get former high lotto picks on rookie deals for our veteran role players or we get the best player in the trade by far. Neither of those things is very likely.
The crazy thing is that both Atlanta and Charlotte are probably good trade partners for us. I could see an MKG/Henderson-for-Green trade, although Charlotte would (rightly) ask for a pick. The problem with this trade is that MKG has been pretty good this season. He's on a rookie deal for another full season and a QO after that. Green can essentially walk next summer.
Don't get me wrong, I want Horford, MKG, Drummond, Jackson and Sanders too. A lot of teams in the league want those guys because they're all really talented. I just don't think that trading our role players is a realistic possibility.
Hortford and Sanders are a possbility (though a slim one.) MKG is a very possible and even realistic. Drummond is untouchable though (I'm dissappointed with his progress though.)
Yeah, the untouchable world-beater Drummond is shooting 43% on the year. If he were a Celtic, he'd be tied with Jeff Green as the worst Celtic starter, in terms of FG%.
Statements like, "tied with Jeff Green as the worst Celtic starter, in terms of FG%" would be a lot more illustrative if Green didn't take 14.5% of his shots from beyond the 3PT line. His eFG% is 48.3%. That's actually a very decent figure for a player with Green's shot selection profile.
Drummond's takes 70% of his shots within 3 feet oft the basket and 96% of them within 10 feet. His eFG% is 43.4%. That's awful.
A more compelling comparative statement would have been to say, "Drummond is shooting 43.4% eFG%. If he were a Celtic, that would be the 4th worst on the team and miles below any Celtic starter."
It's a short season so far, but so far, Drummond's offense is really sputtering. That team is really struggling out of the gate.