01-31-2025, 12:13 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-31-2025, 12:15 PM by KillerLeft.)
I honestly believe that a trade is not needed. What's needed is for everyone to get healthy, and with enough time to play 20 games together and develop some chemistry on the floor in different lineup looks.
There's a chance they're not better than last year, even if they get healthy soon enough, but we DON'T KNOW, and they sure looked pretty damn good to me during that two week stretch about a month in when they were starting to gel, before the health rug got pulled out from under them. Making trades now, to me, runs the risk of guessing wrong in terms of what will/would work and what isn't/wouldn't.
Now, if there's a good BIG deal out there (Herb Jones qualifies for me and not for others, but you get my point - a talent acquisition that can't be passed up) that's a different story. But this bending over backwards for a "backup 4" is more likely than not to be a waste of resources, imo, especially when there's a guy who appears to me to be a year away from being a better player than any of the targets we've mentioned for that spot.
And another thing: If you're going to pay two dinosaur centers and play them roughly equal minutes, I don't think you CAN have a good backup 4, at least not in a way that would satisfy this board. It just doesn't seem viable from a minutes/satisfying role/cap structure standpoint. 10-15 minutes per night and less than the MLE is what you need. NONE of the names this board talks about fit that bill. Even O-Max, if he succeeds, will merit a bigger job than that soon.
If it were me, I'd have ONE high paid center, PJW and an MLE type who could play 4 and 5 behind both of them. That seems to be what the good teams do. The 4th big would be a center, but would need to be a lesser player than Gafford. I don't think that's where things are headed this season, and I'm fine with that, but we can't have it both ways.
There's a chance they're not better than last year, even if they get healthy soon enough, but we DON'T KNOW, and they sure looked pretty damn good to me during that two week stretch about a month in when they were starting to gel, before the health rug got pulled out from under them. Making trades now, to me, runs the risk of guessing wrong in terms of what will/would work and what isn't/wouldn't.
Now, if there's a good BIG deal out there (Herb Jones qualifies for me and not for others, but you get my point - a talent acquisition that can't be passed up) that's a different story. But this bending over backwards for a "backup 4" is more likely than not to be a waste of resources, imo, especially when there's a guy who appears to me to be a year away from being a better player than any of the targets we've mentioned for that spot.
And another thing: If you're going to pay two dinosaur centers and play them roughly equal minutes, I don't think you CAN have a good backup 4, at least not in a way that would satisfy this board. It just doesn't seem viable from a minutes/satisfying role/cap structure standpoint. 10-15 minutes per night and less than the MLE is what you need. NONE of the names this board talks about fit that bill. Even O-Max, if he succeeds, will merit a bigger job than that soon.
If it were me, I'd have ONE high paid center, PJW and an MLE type who could play 4 and 5 behind both of them. That seems to be what the good teams do. The 4th big would be a center, but would need to be a lesser player than Gafford. I don't think that's where things are headed this season, and I'm fine with that, but we can't have it both ways.
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