2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[loki]

I don't view the KP trade as fantastic and it has little to do with his recent struggles.  We paid a steep price for the chance at having two young other worldly talents so I'm not going to be negative here either.  The problem is that because both he and Luka (no brainer win on that trade) were so expensive that we had little ammunition to add to an otherwise thin talent pool.  The smarter play would have been to hold off KP, see what you had in Luka and go through the "process" to add another talent via the draft and then use accumulated assets to add a third piece with the added benefit of better understanding fit.  

Everything else was spinning our tires (wasting time) and had very little upside.  We are so thin on talent and assets that we don't have a lot of options to make these team better in the short term.  Clock is ticking but we need to put a stake in the ground and start making smart trades, acquisitions and draft choices.  I'd say we probably have ~4 years.

In hindsight I would have preferred the "process" as well, but that would have been a very difficult call to make in the moment. It's hard to make the call to tank when you just gave up next year's 1st to snag Luka.