“Anytime you make a trade, each trade is unique unto itself. So when you’re trading a player like DeAndre Hopkins, who has three years left on his deal and you’re trying to find a trade partner, you’re not talking to 31 other teams. So you’re finding a trade partner No. 1 that’s going to be able to pay DeAndre Hopkins. So that was a big part of it. Once we found that team that could afford DeAndre Hopkins in the future, now we then begin to negotiate with what the value of the trade was. So we feel very, very good about being able to get the 40th pick, being able to get David Johnson. We feel really good about, when we look at the analytics of it, based on the production that was leaving our team and the production that we were bringing in, and what we were able to do. Again it is very incomplete and we have several roster moves to go, including the draft.

“The best thing I can tell the fans is to please — I know the media’s job is to evaluate right away and I get that — but I think we have to let it all play out. Let it play out. Let the whole thing play out, whether it’s that trade or anything else we’ve done. I would say let’s review a year from now, two years from, three years from now. Let it all play out.”

O’Brien let his personal feelings get in the way. 

And you really can’t do that when you have someone like Hopkins.  

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