07-09-2024, 06:29 PM
(07-09-2024, 06:18 PM)Smitty Wrote: I kinda wonder if they don’t trade Hardy at some point to restock the SRP cupboard… we’ve seen how those can be valuable to get things to the finish line and they’re down to 1 total (next year). With who his agent is, it wouldn’t surprise me.
This. It's time to declare intentions with him, imo. I don't think you get years and years to develop players anymore. Once they get on that second contract, they had better not be on your team unless you want to PLAY them.
If you give him the keys to the bench unit, it's not like you can't take them away later, but I'd want to know how that looks before doing anything if I were in their shoes.
And, if they've seen enough already to know they don't like it (possible, given the board's temperature on him), I'd absolutely want to turn him into a 2nd round pick, use him as throw-in for something, whatever...soon.