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Trade Rumors as Motivation!?


This is one of my favorite times of year. We get to recover from our super bowl hangovers with the latest March madness projections and the endless NBA trade rumors. It can be super fun to go through all of them and fantasize what could be, The Keyboard GM. Then trolling through the comments sections finding Trade machine links, long winded analysis, insults, and #saltbae memes. All of this has got me wondering as a human being just like AD0, Reggie jackson, or even SVG. What are Trade rumors like from their perspective? Why are there leaks? How would I feel?

Then suddenly, my daughter starts talking to me about how she wants to beat her best friends team and I get to work and one of my sales associates doesn't want to switch to the other team because his friends are on the team he is on. Finally it hit me,Trade Rumors can be motivating......

Let's bring it back to the "player's only meeting" . Obviously, the beginning of the Rjax trade rumors. I have to imagine this was probably a blow to Reggie's ego, because it was reported that most of this meeting was about him. Also there are quotes from AD0 expressing how bad he felt for Reggie, even calling him his best friend. Now for some this will bring a fight or flight mentality and be enough motivation.

Now discussing and leaking trades with other teams can do 2 thing, give the team market value of players and also show players how other teams value them. For a player like Rjax, who demanded a trade from okc with an opinion of himself as a franchise PG, this could give him a sense on how he is viewed currently.

In the end I could see these Trade talks involving mostly Rjax and also a little AD0 as an ultimatum. You guys need to increase your performance and play or we will trade you, and then for SVB they have expressed to the rest of the league these guys will soon be on the market, if we don't take a step forward. Based on the rumors, I'd much rather SVB stand pat, and show Reggie they still believes he is the franchise PG (jury is still out IMO). This, along with the easier schedule over the next 25 games will give Rjax the opportunity to fight or flight. AD0 has an opportunity now also to improve his game and also develop some leadership skills by trying to motivate his "best friend". If they fail, we haven't used our draft pick and we have a chance to reshuffle this summer. Now, if it works the next 25 games could be a great step forward.

First post, I've loved the PIstons for 29 years and love trolling this website!

p.s. SVB did this in a similar way with Stanimal (D-league demotion), a slice of humble pie so he can realize he needs to do more to be who he think he is.

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