Roundtable: Grading the Trade Deadline of Nothingness

There was a lot of smoke but ultimately no fire this deadline. Daily Thunder writers got together for a group reaction.

What grade do you give Sam Presti for his decision to ultimately stand pat this deadline?

It’s hard to give a grade based on the one publicized trade. Not only did the trade not happen, but we also don’t even know what Miami was offering in return for Danilo Gallinari. You can speculate Jae Crowder/Solomon Hill/Dion Waiters or even Tyler Herro if you like lying to yourself, but the truth is we don’t know. Furthermore, there may have been other trade pursuits for Dennis Schröder or Terrance Ferguson that we don’t know about.

If you were expecting Sam Presti to trade all of…