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Originally Posted by SemicolonD
Sorry if this has been talked about as I can’t go through all 45 pages lol, but just reading the sentiment from first 10 pages or so.
It’s not about the rental return being bad, sure that’s great. It’s the constant inability of Conroy to maximize assets and trade when term is left.
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I think he actually did maximize this asset. A year ago, with the season Andersson was having, nobody was going to give up a 1st, 2nd, and a roster player for him. He could have traded him at the 2024 draft, but that is the time of year when GMs place the highest value on picks and the lowest value on players, so I don't think he'd have got a very good deal then either.
Trading Andersson in a contract year when he's having a career season, I believe, was the right time.
I don't think this bears on Kadri and Coleman at all. Andersson isn't 35 years old, he's not about to fall off a cliff, so the calculation is a bit different. Kadri and Coleman need to be moved soon to get good value, and I believe Conroy is fully aware of that.
The one thing that bugs me is the retention on the Andersson deal, because that leaves room to retain on only one of Kadri or Coleman, not both. That likely means that if (as I hope) one of them gets traded this year before the deadline, the other will probably have to wait until the summer, when the cap goes up and everybody has room to make roster changes.
At least waiting till June will give Kadri the rest of the season to get out of his funk. He's too good a player to keep playing as badly as he has the past few weeks. His trade value will be higher once he can show he's not washed up.