Bah fk dat I do it for brown hauser and pick. Amen is very tradeable along with Dickerson.. Brown is becoming a super star in the making. Fair trade... Sengun and Brown would be good duo, with hauser and reed in the Korners. Give Eason a contract and call it a summer.
I'm with you, brother. I don't ever want to see KD in a Rockets jersey again. I'd love CMB, I wonder if they'd consider that.
Would y'all consider taking back Reaves in a SnT for KD to LA? I know he's Luka's bud, but maybe they have reservations about giving him the bag. And maybe bringing in KD convinces LeBron to give it another year.
In a vacuum sure why not? Reaves isn’t my favorite player but he is a decent fit for what we need and his age is in line with our trajectory. His salary though is the issue. I also think his stats are padded a bit by playing off of Luka and Lebron who makes his life pretty easy most nights they both are healthy and playing up to their normal standards. IMO he’s more of a really good role player secondary scorer for his career than an all star. So I worry about giving him big money to play on this team and be relied on to facilitate our offense. So yeah you have to take a look at it, but I suspect the salary he’ll demand in his extension is going to be a sticking point where it just might not be worth it. I think the best deals for KD should be focused on getting a solid top 15 prospect in this years draft, and hopefully getting some depth back with the salary you have to take on in the deal as well sort of like how Brooks went out to get KD in the first place. Get a solid vet and a draft pick and I’m happy.
With the Clippers having one last shot to get a shot at a Championship with Kawhi it hink their best bet to get it done is to trade for Durant. We send them Durant, they send us Garland and the #5 pick. My apologies if someone already posted this same deal. I haven't read any of the posts here.
With the Clippers having one last shot to get a shot at a Championship with Kawhi it hink their best bet to get it done is to trade for Durant. We send them Durant, they send us Garland and the #5 pick. My apologies if someone already posted this same deal. I haven't read any of the posts here. Edit: just finished listening to Dave and Ben talking about a Durant trade with Clippers after I posted that. I think it makes perfect sense.
The idea of trading KD right away without getting much in return is a knee jerk reaction. KD isn’t the weak link on the team. The only way you make a trade with KD is to bring back a top 5 pic with another quality player, preferably a shooter. You definitely don’t right away Amen unless it’s part of a blockbuster deal that nets a young up-n-comer that fits the team needs. What you don’t do is trade for an aging veteran like Giannis. At this point it’s premature to start making trades without saying how the office looks with FV. I think people underestimateWhat a difference it makes to an offense when you actually have a capable PG that can run the team. During the season you might get away with us a bit during the playoffs as where you see they often can look when you don’t have a dominant PG, one that can penetrate lanes and distribute the ball to guys like Tari, Bari, Reed, and Durant. If, and only if, the offense doesn’t look good with FVV full-time, then perhaps you start trading players to bring back draft picks and young players. Side note: It’s time to cut the dead weight on the team. There’s no sense having guys like Tate, Jeff Green, Capella, Holiday, Okogie, Finley-Smith, Davidson, Newton, and Crawford if they aren’t good enough to elevate the team in the playoffs. Pack some of those players and a trade and bring back at least one quality shooter. Just one guy that can elevate the team.
fred is simply not gonna be the same player at 33 coming off ACL surgery. I can’t understand why folks aren’t acknowledging that. we’ve given Fred over $100 mil for one good season. Shocking how everyone is clinging to one good season 3 yrs ago. I just don’t get it. It’s not rational.
The idea of trading KD right away without getting much in return is a knee jerk reaction. KD isn’t the weak link on the team. The only way you make a trade with KD is to bring back a top 5 pic with another quality player, preferably a shooter. You definitely don’t trade away Amen unless it’s part of a blockbuster deal that nets a young up-n-comer player that fits the team needs. You especially What don’t package him in a trade for an aging veteran… like Giannis. At this point I think it’s really premature to start making trades without seeng how the offense looks with FVV. During the season you might get away with not having a quality PG but during the playoffs you get exposed when you don’t have a guard that can penetrate lanes and distribute the ball. If, and only IF, the offense doesn’t improve drastically with FVV, perhaps you start unloading guys like FVV and KF to bring back draft picks and young players. That’s it. Side note: It’s time to cut all thr dead weight on the team. There’s no sense having guys like Tate, J Green, Capella, Holiday, Okogie, Finley-Smith, Davidson, Newton, and Crawford if they aren’t good enough to elevate the team. Just package some of those players in a trade to bring back at least one quality shooter or draft pick.
So much this, that's an insane amount of cap space and roster spots wasted on end of bench players, scrubs and duplicated skill sets. Any pro-Stone people should take a second look just on that alone.
I’m not a Stone fan by any means, but the only guys on that list making money are DFS and Capela. Everyone else was a minimum contract guy. You have to fill out a roster with those guys. I thought Okogie and Holliday at least contributed from that minimum batch.
You do realise there's 9 players on that list right? You think you're supposed to have 9 mostly dead weight players on the roster?
Again, my response was mostly about cap space, and they mostly were not getting paid much. You’re right about that being a lot of wasted roster space, I do think Capela’s a lob threat wasted without a good PG. And Uncle Jeff was great for vibes. I’d be happy bringing Okogie and Holliday back at a similar number. But most of the back end was wasted space. Then again, do most teams make valuable use of multiple minimum contract guys? I don’t think next year with Amen getting his $ is going to be different in terms of filling the back end with meh.
I think you're right, I think we likely massively overpay Amen and then probably have even more mostly worthless players on low money in roster spots and an even less effective team overall and less ability to correct that going forward.
According to John Gambadoro, Minny’s final offer for KD last June was: Rudy Gobert, Donte DiVincenzo, rookie Terrence Shannon Jr., and the No. 17 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft. Wonder what they would offer now.
A package with KD would need to include Sengun. I think trading KD with Sengun still on thr roster is still a insufficient roster that cant defend or score. Lets retool and actually address the issues
