2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[DanSchwartzgan]

Powell as Sabonis backup is just fine. They have a good amount of wings there and Sabonis is big enough to take on the big, bigs of the league giving DFS the ability to play PF a lot easier.

My mind had not really gone there as I was in the “surely they will want Maxi” camp.  But, this could make sense.  I’m a little worried Indy might want more.  As much as we like DFS, he is a flight risk.  Unfortunately, he’s a flight risk for Indy also.  So, I’m not sure he’s as much of an asset as we’d like to think.  We definitely won’t be getting picks back.

Part of the reason some/many of us are willing to trade off THJ is we have Bullock, Frank and Green who could absorb those minutes.  DFS is a unique two position player and there isn’t anyone like him on the roster.  So, there is a presumption he’s irreplaceable.  But, if you have a big rotation of Turner, KP and Maxi (with Chriss backing all of them up), then the need for a 3/4 is lessened and a pure 3 could then potentially do something similar to what DFS does…’strictly as a 3’.  

BTW, I know that won’t be popular, but I see some appeal in having two really high level bigs in KP and Turner with a really solid backup and two really high level scoring guards.  From there, you just run some combination of wings alongside some combination of bigs and scoring guards (but at least one of KP/MT and one of LD/JB on at all times).  I can see the logic even if it would be a soul killing trauma to see DFS leave.

A couple of agent notes.  DFS is represented by Michael Tellem who switched to Excel in November.  Powell has long been an Excel guy.  Turner is represented by Duffy.  Probably the biggest thing about all the Turner noise is getting him somewhere that Duffy can leverage his next big contract.  Excel reps Kidd, so moving DFS to Indy might get him a bigger deal than he might get here.  While I opine on all of these rumors, the one I’m taking most seriously so far is some version of Turner.