TRADE: Christian Wood (1yr/$14.3M) to DAL | #26+SB+Boban+Chriss+TB to HOU

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I actually was going to put in my post that getting wood means that we probably have to trade THJ. Like you said he's not the absolute perfect fit for the team scheme and it's hard not to notice how the team didn't skip a beat when he went down. 

Plus, there are only so many shots available in a game. Luka is going to take his 20-25 a night. Brunson probably is going to get 15 a game. Dinwiddie as well with 15. Right there we're at 50 possessions. The team averaged 85 a game (27th in the league), which gives us 35 left to distribute between Wood, THJ, DFS, Maxi, and Bullock. Wood should get around 15 a game. So is THJ/DFS/Maxi/Bullock going to take 5 shots each? Just hard to imagine it. 

Of course the easiest thing would be to just shoot more shots and play faster, which I don't think Luka prefers. 

In any case, I'm intrigued on what sort of packages (if any) they can get for THJ+Powell+Green.

I think this package could land a solid player that fits the scheme. This would be a good trade indeed. Green just lacks the natural offensive instincts and sshooting to be a factor at this point of time. Might get it later.

I think that still Kidd is really happy about Powell due to his movement on defense, and in regular season, he is a weapon in pick and roll with Luka. I dont see the team trading him away.

My hope is that THJ and Green could get us a good player in return.

Ive noted several instances this season of Luka, and other teammates,  getting annoyed by THJ offensive decisions where he took difficult shots without letting the offense to develop. Im not sure it was that, could also be just frustrations of being behind in those games, but THJ has a tendency, and I would say an irreversible one, to play on his own without involving the team at all. And IMO this is not the same as when Luka takes a step-back 3, most of the time there is thought and schematic tactical well-calculated decision behind Lukas step back 3s and they always involve the whole team and that is when the defense is giving up the step back 3 and not allowing Lukas teammates to be open, hence in that sense Luka is involving the team. It most of the times involves Lukas natural progressions, and sometimes this can be a result of well set defense as well, and the best play in those situations, but he allows the reads to go through and gives a thought to each position of each teammate. No, instead THJ's rushed 3s are most of the time where he is fully covered have most of the time no sense or well-calculation behind it, and never involve the teammates, any progression, or the scheme and tactics of the offense and are not a decision based on the reads THJ is doing, its simply running over and making sure he takes the shot and nobody else on the team, and mostly they are super rushed early in the shotclock. There is a world of difference how different contested 3s can be in terms of scheme and tactics, and the reasoning behind these kind of shots.