Time is an asset

Currently we are playing a lot of Simons, Grant and Ayton, or holding into RW. This is supposedly to juice/rehab their value so we can maximise any return from a trade. My question is though, who is actually benefitting from this?

RW has barely played for us and it was a huge mistake not flipping him immediately after the Jrue trade. His value is non existent and may be a couple 2nds.

Ayton is probably untradeable at this point and we’re just going to have to hold him until he’s an expiring.

Simons hasn’t gone to another level from what the league has seen from him over the past 5 years and his value is probably lower than we even think.

Grant has played pretty well and shown he could be helpful on a contender, however given his contract size probably doesn’t fetch a great return.

So we’re holding and/or playing these guys, and it isn’t actually increasing their value at all.

In the process of doing this we are hamstringing our younger players, such as scoot being benched/not closing out games and Sharpe often not being the primary option like he probably needs to be at this stage given where we are.

Time is also an asset and at the moment we are completely wasting valuable development time for our younger guys in favour of attempting to increase vets trade value which you could easily argue is actually having the opposite effect.

At this stage we just need to get what we can for these guys and move forward to try and maximise the potential of the younger guys.