07-22-2022, 10:57 PM
I think chaparral's take is insightful. If you have a reasonable way to turn THJ into a useful, needed player or 2, at the 2 positions of need, and you get off of half of his salary going forward, I'm not sure you can expect to find a better deal.
I don't disagree that THJ probably has more in him to show. But to see that, he needs a role where he gets the ball a lot and gets to shoot a lot, and I just don't see how that would be possible with this team as constructed. I see it kinda like the KP deal - in theory you are giving up the better player, but his presence here obstructs progress, and puts a ceiling on his production too. Unless he can become a really stalwart defender, and I don't think he has the disposition in him.
Of course, if you have no sensible offers now, you gotta wait. That's just how it is. But I'm hopeful something like one of these could be out there.
One more thing -- I do think these ideas, if they were available now, would be less viable as we get into the season. DET may buy out Kemba and force a decision there that can't wait. They will also make moves that dry up at least some of that cap room well before camp. And NY's move on Mitchell, and the potential to obtain Rose, will likely be be finished (or scuttled) by camp also. OTOH, a "restored value" for THJ (if that sort of thing is real) can't happen until well into the season. I think if you get something helpful, and that will help both this season AND the summer of 2023 roster-building, you just take it and move on.
I don't disagree that THJ probably has more in him to show. But to see that, he needs a role where he gets the ball a lot and gets to shoot a lot, and I just don't see how that would be possible with this team as constructed. I see it kinda like the KP deal - in theory you are giving up the better player, but his presence here obstructs progress, and puts a ceiling on his production too. Unless he can become a really stalwart defender, and I don't think he has the disposition in him.
Of course, if you have no sensible offers now, you gotta wait. That's just how it is. But I'm hopeful something like one of these could be out there.
One more thing -- I do think these ideas, if they were available now, would be less viable as we get into the season. DET may buy out Kemba and force a decision there that can't wait. They will also make moves that dry up at least some of that cap room well before camp. And NY's move on Mitchell, and the potential to obtain Rose, will likely be be finished (or scuttled) by camp also. OTOH, a "restored value" for THJ (if that sort of thing is real) can't happen until well into the season. I think if you get something helpful, and that will help both this season AND the summer of 2023 roster-building, you just take it and move on.