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Old 07-25-2021, 10:47 AM   #4252
Enoch Root
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Originally Posted by ComixZone View Post
When no one else wants your players in trades “that make sense” to you, it’s also probably a pretty good indicator that you are misevaluating your own players, and that they are nowhere near as good as you think they are. That could be a good indication that it is time to rebuild.
It might be an indication of this, sure. But not necessarily, or even likely.

Every GM wants to 'win' a trade, and improve their team. That's the point of a trade. Sure, occasionally, there are easy trades where two teams have different needs and each has something the other wants. But those are fairly rare.

Typically, in order for a trade to make sense for both teams, you need assets that the other side covets, that you are willing to give up for the assets you covet, with similar cap hits (in total, if more than one piece), often, but certainly not always, for similar positions, where both GMs think they are improving their team.

That is actually pretty hard to do. And the problem with 'needing a shakeup' and thus looking to trade for trade's sake, is that you are likely to force these issues in order to find a trade that really isn't there. Which almost certainly means you will lose the trade or not improve your team.

Trading is pretty easy if you are looking to rebuild - just trade current assets for future assets. But when neither team is rebuilding, finding workable matches is difficult, especially in the cap era.

Not being able to find a way to improve your team, when your assets could be undervalued due to a bad season for the team, and with the cap frozen due to covid, is not much of a surprise, and hardly indicates that he overvalues his players.
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