05-12-2021, 08:44 PM
(05-12-2021, 07:16 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: You can disagree with the idea that he makes the team worse, and who knows - next year he might come back and make this entire conversation silly. But, IF he REALLY is as bad as he has looked this year (and OMG has he looked bad this year) then I'm honestly unsure what we're arguing about.This is what I believe, sans a trade demand, the FO sees is happening with him. How many instances of down years have we seen with players to see them come back the next year and look like themselves? Of course there are also instances of players continuing to not play well too. My belief is that the FO sees the former in him (again, as long as there is no demand in place), or at the very least will never come close to divulging the latter until he’s gone.
All the flaws you have been pointing out can be worked on and he can get better at. He still has youth on his side. He just hasn’t been healthy long enough to do so.
I’ve always stayed in the corner of trading him this offseason because of the constant fear of losing him to injury. You’re right that sooner or later those injuries will accumulate and slow him down eventually. That time is not now, I don’t think. He hasn’t had enough accumulation to be deemed incapable of getting better like I believe I’ve seen you say (maybe it was someone else). In other words, I don’t believe this year is the year to say “he is what he is”. We may look back and that might be true, but there just isn’t enough, to me, to say it right now.