2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[DanSchwartzgan]

Need a 3rd team. 

Agree.  I don’t see KP and Sabonis as a fit.  Fish didn’t regurgitate someone else’s story here.  This was presented as a source saying there might be interest.  Fish writes things sometimes to hide the fact that he doesn’t have much.  But sometimes he writes in a way to not burn a source when he does have something.  He does have sources and it is probably worth paying some attention based on how it was written.  The Duffy angle doesn’t hurt.

The simplest deal is Turner and Justin Holiday for trade matching purposes.  I like starting as simple as possible.  It works as a draft day match but not as a deal in the summer.  I think the former is important, especially in the case of a three-way.  It allows for draft picks to be part of the deal.  I think you have to presume that Indy wants to improve and doesn’t want to pay tax.  I don’t think Kemba is a consideration here.  I don’t think they are giving away Turner PLUS someone useful.  I’m also not a fan of creating something that requires a S&T.

The question would be where to send KP and what Indy would want in return.  Is Warren a SF or a PF next to Sabonis?  Indy was a poor defensive team this year, but were 3rd in the league last season when Warren was healthy.  I suspect they would want a two way player, but certainly no slouch on Defense.

Edit:  A deal for Turner would make sense of Markkanen’s comment about wanting to come here as it would take someone like Turner to make LM’s lack of defense workable.