Us having John at $27M a year is the end result unless we flip him for a bigger contract (Lavine). I'm fine not giving a final grade until we see what happens but at midterms its an F to me and much of it is for the same reasons I stated I didn't like it to start the season. Individually John has done about as well as can be expected, but he's not an unknown player and his *** been on the trading block for 3 years... so we kinda know what the league thinks of him. If someone gets desperate I could see us getting an expiring and some seconds but it was always a deal that seemed like the risk reward ratio was skewed against us.
Yeah I just think if this was the plan you needed to make getting a setup guy pg a priority. It was obvious to me at the time we had very little passing and mostly finishers in the starting lineup... so needed to achieve some balance. Instead we ran with JC and THT in the backcourt and it was just a mess.
The hypothetical falls apart when you actually envision the ceiling and ask yourself what grade that ceiling gets. It’s like NWG. We put this emphasis on keeping course because, hey, you may develop him into the next Neto. Okay, cool. How valuable is that really and why not just sign the actual Neto?
Yeah I think they saw it as "we may be able to get a first for this guy" when in reality it was maybe a couple seconds... and we could have easily gotten that with our 18M in space this year (and 26M next year... and the year after). I think they also liked the player but to really maximize all the players we have we needed at least a stop gap vet game manager pg to add to the mix.
It’s also funny to think about the ceiling of two seconds when you contrast it with how many deals DA left seconds on the table or unnecessarily included them. There’s like at least 6 seconds there.
I mean, why not? We have a tendency to get all my guys just a couple years too late. But I'd do it because we need to clear out some space. Wouldn't be such a problem if we hadn't traded for Collins this summer but, hey, that move will cost you KO, DA.
Just trade everyone that’s getting in the way of more Taylor Hendricks minutes.
The most obvious one will be very hard to move. But maybe that's where DA will come to the rescue with his LaVine move. Swallowing a cat to get the mouse.
Never heard that expression before. I like it!
Here's the shot I'm going to call... I believe in it like 10% but this is the prediction...
I’d want a monster package. I think Jarace plus three picks is reasonably high. You’d have to sell them on how great they will be for the next 5 years and how Lauri is kind of a perfect star for their market… so because the picks will be bad then we need 4 and Jarace. If we move Lauri it needs to be a heist for us.
For me it doesn't make sense to trade Lauri to the pacers because they only have their own picks to trade. Lauri and Hali would be dominant duo for a long time which diminishes the value of those picks.
Over 6 years a lot can happen but yeah it’s not ideal… it’s also what you get in draft centered trade… no team will give up their whole draft future if they think they gonna be ***.
