Conventional Trades Going Forward
And so, we’ve come full circle.
In the end, the value of insurance is in the eye of the beholder. It is that value which must come from somewhere.
In the austerity program of Sam Hinkie, it was disguised as red-shirting draft prospects for two years due to health or overseas obligations. It was a willingness to give a chance at an NBA career to a prospect whose “statistical analysis profile” gave the green light to, but whose scouting report translated into a later second round pick or even to fail to be selected in an NBA draft at all.
Those risks of falling to the bottom shelf appear to be too low to bend for Bryan Colangelo. And so, the entire “draft swap” wellspring has dried up. Without risk, there is no gamble, and therefore no opportunity for the reward of playing the odds.
After all, insurance is simply a wager. It’s a gamble, where you are betting on the disaster, and the insurance company is betting against that same disaster. If you win, you suffer the fire to your house or the auto accident, but the insurance companies pays the contracted rate for the disaster.
Sam Hinkie was that riverboat gambler mentality. He counted the cards in the casino, knew when the odds were not in his favor and when the payout of a gamble placed odds in his favor.
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Colangelo plays the hand that is dealt to him. With that, the opportunity to see more draft swaps going forward is dim now. We appear to be content to play the hand dealt to us. In the end, that’s probably not a bad plan to take right now. After all, Hinkie dealt us the cards in our hand.