THE CRUCIFIX: Cato: Wood isn't thrilled w/ his role...Will depart in the summer

[Dundalis]

It might be simply a matter of easing him back in the rotation coming off an injury.  It could also be for balance in the rotation to give the bench a little offensive punch.

But, this is the role I’ve always seen as his highest and best use.  It is a valuable role, but it isn’t a $17mm role.  The $13mm number would be a hair high for this role.  I also expect him to be traded and for the value to be surprisingly small.  I’ve mentioned the other Morris brother from LAC and as the means of moving Bertan’s money for expiring but out of the rotation Love and maybe another player.  I don’t see it being much more than that unless we add a pick.

Dude can create his offense, has an inside outside game and does it with a very efficient 63% TS. He's also a very good rebounder. His offensive skillset is also pretty much perfectly matched with both Kyrie and Luka. This team can't afford to ship him off for a random role player, leaving us with only two reliable shot creators and scorers in Luka and Kyrie. Green and Hardy having good single games don't make them reliable shot creators or scorers. THJ is the definition of unreliable. There's nothing after that. Too many eggs in two baskets offensively IMO. They have to get some equivalent or close to, offense in return IMO. But I'm perfectly fine keeping him. Put a defensive big next to him so he doesn't have to defend those types of players, and I think he's more than passable defensively with his underrated weak side help. I think a 18-20 ppg guy on excellent overall efficiency shooting near 40% from 3 grabbing 8-9 boards is worth much more than 13 mill