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that'd be a brutal defensive backcourt if the wiz acquired young

 

that was kind of what i was thinking--how can we use an expiring to peel off a player in this deal? not seeing it right now, but if and when young's moved, could be a lot of salaries moving.

i think getting young now is a pretty good move, assuming you're basically just moving expiring money. yeah, you inherit his contract issues, but you're also in a position of power if you didn't give anything up for him. right now, he becomes an expiring himself next year. that said, the team that trades for him probably will have already laid out the framework of some sort of extension.

yeah, we're definitely not the right spot for him, but had we not gotten luka and it was just rui/gabe/other expiring for young with nothing else added? i probably would have said it was worth trying to just outscore people.

 

i think any backcourt with young is going to brutal defensively. atlanta has dyson daniels back there and doesn't seem jazzed about the combo. you have to play differently on defense if young's there.

he's overpaid as a supermax guy in that 50 million range. but closer to the 40 million range, he's a floor-raiser who can put butts in seats.

 

3 All Stars, but still probably out in the 1st rd?

 

All comes down to health. If all our important guys are healthy we have a shot to go all the way. Puncher's chance. Specifically and absolutely need Luka, LeBron and AR all healthy, but the other 6 guys too so as to be able to better match the already established depth of the teams that have it. But our Big 3 healthy >>>> any other Big 2 or 3 best players.

 

We gotta win, no matter who we face folks. With that level of talent, there isn't any excuse.

 

there is when all three of your guys are hurt. these ultimatums are ridiculous.

minnesota had a better team than we did last year.

 

Well.I said in the playoffs, and I said barring major injury. We could have beaten Minnesota IMO, if we had a better gameplan, but we didn't. Fine..that was with house money because we made a midseason trade. We addressed issues that arose in that series. We have the trade deadline this season to do more. When we get to the playoffs, no excuses are allowed.

 

I will never hat used to people saying “Knueppel” in regards to a real man. Since this is a family friendly site, I’ll just leave it at that.

 

Second best start since 2010 and we’ve been missing major guys for multiple stretches this year.

This team has holes and has had some bad losses but has also showed it can play at a high level when locked in and everyone can go.

I do think that if we are healthy going into the postseason expecting us to get out of the first round is reasonable.

 

KCP would look great on this team and give them a real shot. It's not the exciting pick but man does he check a lot of the boxes.

 

He sure looked great against us with his 3s dropping. Could have just had a hot game and is streaky but yeah he’d look great out there with, or backing up Smart and AR.

 

The thing is this team is so talented elsewhere: the big 3, I think the center position is good playoff caliber rotation with Ayton/hayes, and you got 2 competent playoff caliber 2 ways players in Jake and Smart, then you have a drop off to guys who can get minutes but could be played out of games - Rui whose got some post scoring and shooting but no boards and no defense. Vando in the playoffs can get ugly fast. After that it gets really rough in terms of depth- what you're missing is a guard(s) who can play defense and shoot. The shooting/athleticism at the guard spots remains just a gaping hole compared to the rest of the roster

I don't expect KCP to be good every night but with Smart I think you can platoon those two so you don't wear them out and look old. You also can also weather a bad shooting night as you'll probably get a decent shooting night from one of the two. I feel you can do what Boston did for their title run with their center rotation with the guard spots getting these smart veteran defensive guards who are capable enough on offense you can platoon them. Plus, KCP provides you something you just dont' have outside of Nick Smith Junior a guy who is comfortable with the mid range pull up game. I'm a big fan of checking the boxes with guys who can add to the arsenal so to speak

 

Watching Brick gives me so much joy now that he's not on the Lakers - Kings last possession of the game down 2 against Dallas. Derozan red hot game but you now if you're Russ and you're iso'd against Anthony Freakin Davis you got to let Russ be Russ and he takes a step back 3 that everyone in the building knew was goingn to clank and it clanks hard lol.

The Kings what a team, Poor DeRozan why can't he catch a break and get on a team that actually is constructed to win

 

“Real men overcome their names”

Sincerely,

Thomas J Crapper (Inventer of the toilet)

 

"I live for big moments in games!"

--Cedric Coward (Memphis Grizzlies)

 

wet blanket theory: only a front office that would poorly construct a team would go after derozan? he's basically been a bad defender his whole career, which is pretty wild considering his physical tools. only conclusion is that the effort and focus are absent or inconsistent. at his price tag, that's not a recipe for winning.


re: kcp: been mentioning him since summer. my hesitation is just his extra year on the contract, but there's two reasons i'd still do gabe/kleber for him.

1. kcp as a 23 million expiring might be a better use of cap space than what we'd be able to pull. have to trust the gm to have an early read on that market
2. it's possible he opts out to take a longer, smaller deal, which may also be about as good a use as we could make of that space.

gabe/kleber for kcp straight up works. to me, this is fair to both teams, as memphis gets some salary relief and gabe could, in theory, provide help for them.

you could expand the deal to include knecht and bring back gg jackson, but then memphis would want some draft compensation is my guess.

anyway, kcp would be very similar to the DFS pickup from last year. different position but same kind of player at same career stage. could also end up a rental.