Raptors trade Dennis Schroder to the Nets for Spencer Dinwiddie
We are just a couple of hours away from the trade deadline. This means teams are going to be frantically on the phone trying to make last-second improvements as we approach the second half of the season. Taking part in this yearly tradition is the Toronto Raptors, who are sending Dennis Schroder to the Nets for Spencer Dinwiddie straight up. WOJ was the first to break the news.
My initial reaction to this trade was who cares? Two 30-year-old guards past their best playing days being traded straight up? It just doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense for either side. Neither team gets worse, but nobody gets better either in this overall wash of a trade.
I mean just look at their stats from this season. They are almost identical players up until this point.
So, I guess with Schroder, you are getting a little more efficiency on the offensive side. But it’s not a move that suddenly turns the Brooklyn Nets into a serious contender. Schroder will be good but likely will be giving you the same production Dinwiddie was.
For the Raptors, it would make sense to move on from Dennis Schroder. Their season is over, and moving off vets like Schroder makes perfect sense. Just not when you decide to bring in another aging vet to replace him.
It seemed like the obvious choice would have been to either secure some picks or take a chance on a higher-upside guy who may be buried in the Nets rotation. But deciding to bring in Dinwiddie just really makes this trade very mehh.
It’s not a win-win but it’s also not a lose-lose. This trade, to me, is just the exact definition of mid. I don’t really know what the thought process was. Maybe both GMs just wanted to say they made a trade. Would honestly be a good explanation for a rather confusing trade.
As for the Nets, at 20-30 I expected them to be bigger buyers at the deadline. It hasn’t been an ideal start to the year, but it’s not like they are already out of the race. I know they weren’t going to be able to immediately become title contenders. But I thought they would try to maybe bring in one more guy to attempt to make at least a serious run.
But it seems like the Nets are more or less happy rolling with what they got. Well, I guess now, with the addition of Dennis Schroder. Aren’t you just so excited, Brooklyn?
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