Kyrie is also a anti-semite. Just what we need to go along with Dickerson. Give up all our talented youth for old guys with attitudes. SMH!!!
“The guys you tout as great defenders also make bonehead mistakes“ So what’s the solution? Give more playing time to players who struggle on both ends instead? (Cam, Sheppard)
This Kyrie thing is Chinese Chess guys. Think about it. Mavs don't have their own picks. We have their 2029 pick. On the tiny chance that Kyrie is fit and plays well, our future asset will devalue. So we take Kyrie and remove the miniscule chance of him working out for them." It's like, science...
man, can we not trade any picks for 34 yr old guys coming off ACL surgery? We are not contending with Kyrie so why would we trade valuable assets for him? Help me understand.
I'd be hesitant to trade for Kyrie. Because Udoka's MO means he'll be posting up against bigs for 95% of every game.
I saw this "Trade for Kyrie" thread and had to click on it to see if it's real or just a hallucination.
Cam and Sheppard can at least give quality minutes, for whatever faults they have. The "Ime Player" has his own faults. I don't know if it matters too much. Stone wanted to get Reed Sheppard playing time. Udoka balked and only saw Sheppard's errors and didn't want to play him; but whenever Tari / Bari made mistakes, Udoka saw them but because they fit his archetype..... Anyway, I think from the preseason I could see how poorly the team defended from the 3 point line. Just garbage. It seemed to persist throughout the season. But that good old zone, Udoka, that good old zone.
Either KD for Kyrie and #9 or FVV, filler for Kyrie and #9 would work for me, even if Kyrie never played a game for us.
First deal - that’s a 40-45 win team guaranteed with 2-3 years of more waiting around for a lottery pick that may or may not develop into a good player
This team needs a hard reset anyways. They aren't doing anything. Not like I agree with the trade for Kyrie.
I’d rather load up on young guys and 40-45 next couple of years, then run it back and get 50-55 wins with no fresh blood and at best a second round exit, but most likely another 1st round flame-out. If Kyrie stayed healthy by some miracle we could probably still do the latter. He’s a better fit than Kd, but I’m doing it for the 9th pick. If you can get a good pick for KD without taking back an albatross go for it. Just don’t think you can.
going backwards makes no sense to me. What teams have done this after trying to build a contender? I can only think of the Kings who traded away stars for lottery picks. But then again they’ve been known to make bad decisions. But even then they tried to upgrade their roster with stars/ex stars (derozan, sabonis, lavine). I have talked about the Cavs who took a little different approach and traded their lottery picks for dominant players in Mitchell and Harden. They did not look to get lottery picks. Knicks didn’t like their roster and traded guys they drafted for an elite scoring PF, borderline star in OG, and a solid 2 way in Bridges. They did not go backwards. This Rockets iteration isn’t it as most of us know but going backwards to take lottery picks to add on a roster of vets is almost unheard of especially when you have built a team to contend the past 6 years. If it’s a complete rebuild then sure take lottery but it isn’t. And almost no teams rebuild after 2 losses in the playoffs. How many times did Minn lose? What about Utah? Mavs? Certainly wasn’t 2 playoff losses
