2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[DanSchwartzgan]

I keep playing in my mind Conley vs. Derozan.  I think going down the Lowry route is a bad decision.   I really like his fit here but he is a little older.   

Let’s say for a minute you conclude DeRozan is the right fit.  No KP trade, you just create room and sign him.

Here is my question.  I think Dinwiddie in 19/20 was a discount version of DeRozan.  For the age difference, the contract difference (maybe $10mm?) and the cost in terms of personnel (probably THJ or some equivalent player), would you take Dinwiddie’s good scoring, poor D, good playmaking and poor three point shooting vs DeRozan’s good scoring, poor D, good playmaking and poor three point shooting.

I see creating room for Dinwiddie (either by direct trade of JRich to Brooklyn or trading him for space or opt out) as being much easier to create than doing the same for DeRozan.  If you do Dinwiddie for JRich, you still have the THJ bullet and the MLE.  Since JRich added basically nothing, you’d consider Dinwiddie and the MLE guy as additions.