Trade & FA 2024-25:

[Dundalis]

Whoa! You think Lively’s future is to split 42 to 44 minutes with Gafford? You are so underselling the kid. No way.

The combo make our defense. 48 mins of elite rim protection. If you just have Lively, unless the perimeter defense is fantastic, our defensive rating falls off and looks like what it was pre Gaff and PJ trade IMO (sure you now have PJ, but you also have the drop off from DJJ to Klay).

Losing Gafford, unless the perimeter defense is somehow increased quite a bit, causes the teams overall defense to fall off a good amount with the team as currently constructed.