HOUR 3: Troy Weaver Made Some Trades!
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 7 February 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Mike and Rico devote the entire 3rd hour to talking about Troy Weaver and the Pistons, who made a trade earlier today, and then one during the show, which the guys react to in the last segment.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, so let's, against my better judgment, we'll spend a segment on it, |
| 0:05.7 | Pistons have made a move, let me try to walk through it. |
| 0:08.7 | Fun. Fun, fun, fun, fun. |
| 0:11.4 | Um, this one's complicated, so kind of bear with me. |
| 0:17.0 | They made a trade today to acquire Simone Fontanecchio. |
| 0:21.0 | No, I'm not related to him. Yes, he's from Italy. |
| 0:24.0 | For a part of this year when Lorry Marketing was out for the jazz started. |
| 0:30.0 | Also fun side note, fun. |
| 0:32.0 | He lit your ass up the night the jazz were here. |
| 0:35.2 | Now as a player I don't hate it. He's 28. He's shooting a career best 39% from three. |
| 0:46.3 | He's actually a plus rebounder by analytics. I'm okay with it. Like I could not possibly knock the player. That's not what I'm doing. |
| 0:50.3 | Now he's a restricted free agent. Here are the rules on that. Just whenever you see a guy who's a restricted free agent, generally speaking, if they're going to bail, it's in a sign and trade. |
| 1:03.0 | So let's assume Fontanecchio is yours. |
| 1:05.6 | Okay, second year player, shooting much better this year than last year. |
| 1:09.8 | He fills a role here. |
| 1:11.2 | You gave up Kevin Knox, who cares, and a second round pick this year. |
| 1:16.6 | Now there's your issue. The second round pick would be, for all intents of purposes, pick |
| 1:22.1 | 32. |
| 1:23.6 | That's first round pick. |
| 1:25.1 | A late one, but it's first round pick. |
| 1:27.6 | Here's the issue when you zoom out away from it |
| 1:31.0 | and go, all right, so a bad team wanted to get a 28 year old guy who can be a stretch |
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