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I’m not doing any roasting tonight. If we do get a reasonably healthy AD and Max continues his very welcome upward arc then we successfully use the first in a solid trade then we will have gotten a top 5-7 player, a solid 2 way wing starter and an upgrade through trade. That is a lot of value. Unfortunately we still probably lose the trade. Luka was that good and Maxi will look better with the no big men Lakers. Our problem is that we lost 10 years of hope for an annual contender that seemed pretty realistic. Hope is a huge loss!

However, our hope was only hope, not a guarantee. Perhaps it turns out we already got what turns out to be Luka’s best years. Perhaps Luka’s extreme percentage of the luxury tax would have turned us into Phoenix. We will never know now. That in itself hurts. Fortunately we do have a lot of top level talent still to root for. PJ and Powell will be back soon. Yea. I guess.   But no roasting for seeing a silver lining that is actually quite nice to see.

I'm right there with you. With Luka it always felt like you had a chance to win. And it was just cool having "that" guy on our team. I'm also not into going after KD. I'm not so sure they will honestly. I think it's just a smokescreen.

I'm really excited about the team getting healthy to see what they can do. They have OKC's number. With the way they have been playing I think that they can hang around that 8 seed if not jump up a couple of spots to allow time for guys to get healthy. This team has a chance to be a defensive juggernaut. With Kyrie, Klay, AD, and Max I'm not really worried so much about scoring. The ball movement will allow plenty of open opportunities.