Hondo wrote:
Rodeo may win more games in '74 than the Stars, but Stars will dominate this league for years after that. Did you see their future draft picks? In '75 they already have 8 first round picks and 7 second round picks. Then in '76 they already have 4 first round picks with 4 second round picks. Twelve firsts and eleven seconds in two years. How many do most other teams have?
His trading strategy seems brilliant. If you look at the players he has traded for picks, many of them he never drafted. I may be wrong here, but that implies he signs mediocre FA's as cheaply as possible then includes them in trades to up his side of the trade value. Thus, he gets your draft pick for a free agent that basically cost him nothing. That is brilliant. HK is probably the best "wheeler dealer" I have seen.
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I love to trade and I am aggressive trader..but its all part of my 5 year plan to build a team that will be playoff bound for decade. I usually take over team and will try to trade all 53 or at least majority part of the roster to acquire different player and picks... and I will do this aggressively for 3 years till my drafted players start to build the core of my team... so year 4-5 is building core and than its business as usually to preserve the team to make run from 6-11 year and than try to see if there is chance to restock and make one more run before year 14 as post that I will be in 2nd rebuild.
On the trade I have traded mostly the player I had on roster that I acquire or players I acquire on trade.... plus some good or decent backup I picked up cheap in FA and develop them so I can use them as sweetener in the trade to make the deal happen but most important key is I will study every team roster and draft pattern and see what gaps they have and will offer aggressive trade offer that will benefit other team as well as mine ... as it all goes by what both team needs.
I will break bank and trade many of my 1st for star players if offered but that is more of year 3-5 time window....
I do this as I am lousy coach but I am good GM who is adamant to build the team my way where I will trade a lot between 1-5 years ..... I also trade with consistent value... just as example I had 3 offer for A.Adam... matter of fact if I had not agreed to trade for him with Houston I had chance to package A.Adam along with lower 1st round for early 1st as he can play CB,SS, FS or LB
Again ... just sharing this just as experience....I like to keep league active ...fun and talking.... :).
Open to ideas .... views..... what you all think .....
