2021 FREE AGENCY: Markkanen wants out of CHI | DAL "definitely interested"

[mvossman]

Well can you get such a two player right now?

This team needs an infusion of overall talent. We are basically a mirror image of our SummerLeague team (slightly exaggerated), except that SummerLeague team has no Luka Doncic.

Since we are/have been absolutely trash at drafting, we simply have to add TALENT whenever we can. Be a lot easier, if we had drafted Bey, Maxey or Pokusevski instead of Green. Or Bane, Quickley or Maledon instead of Terry, but we have not.

Markkanen fills a lot of needs, especially as a Porzingis trade/injury insurance. Who is going to provide that scoring punch, if Porzingis goes down? Powell, WCS, Kleber, Boban, Brown?

I know we need to be better at defense, but defense is played almost situationally in the NBA today, because the rules simply make even 24 minutes of good defense impossible. What´s played 48 minutes is offense.

I mean if you are going to use the summer league team as an analogy, what that team desperately needed more than anything is an actual point guard (same for this team without Luka).

Lauri would definitely provide some value when KP is out.  He also would provide some value on the bench.  There is no universe where you could start KP/Lauri/Luka/THJ and be an even average defense.  He is a bench piece.  That is not worth a first round pick or 15 mil a year.  If we could send a second and/or Moses and max out our TPE then I am all in.