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Bronny has grown but is still far from being a rotation player.
It was a bad decision for the roster to have him with that contract at the time, but it's part of the business and we got accept it.

But making the narrative like it will be worthy... it won't.
We lost depth at least 2 years in squads that needed extra bodies. It's unfortunate but we gotta move forward. But it's not like we lost a title because of that. We were never going to win regardless of Bronny.

Next year will be more important. We have more slots and we should have a deeper squad. If we can turn Maxi, Vando and Knecht slots into at least a couple rotation players, Bronny is a moot point.
In theory, spots 13 to 15 should be to development guys

 

Kevin Durant out

No excuses Lakers.

 

I feel like having Bronny, Adou and another development guy is good for us like you said. It's really that 10-12 spots where we've made mistakes. If we slot everyone in:

1: Luka
2: Reaves
3: Lebron
4: Smart
5: Ayton
6: Kennard
7: Rui
8: Jake
9: Hayes
10: Vando (12m)
11: Kleber (11m)
12: Knecht (4m)
13: Bronny
14: Adou
15: NSJ

We have 27 million in useless salary. If we could have turned that into a good player - like a Wiggins - we'd be much closer to contention and it would of switched everyone from Smart down one peg that makes us a legit 10 deep.

I also think we really missed out on Keon Ellis at the deadline. He would of been another small cap hold like Reaves that we could of utilised to build our team out with bird rights.

 

Man, Josh Hart is a dog. He plays SG-PF, gets you 10 points, 10 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 stocks. Excellent role player, ironman who can play 40 mins a night. If Giannis goes to New York, I'd love to get Hart back as a throwaway.

EDIT: Ends the game with 10/13/5/3 with no plays called for him and took 8 shots. Just a great two way guy and an ultimate 5th starter that can do anything you need. Defend, rebound, score, handle.

 

I was all about Goodwin as alot of us were. The talk in the off season was how can we keep him while still brining in Smart? Smart was the last signing. I was the last Knect guy as I said he had a horrible summer league and Bronny had a better summer league than him. We knew Goodwin was better than Bronny and probably shouldve got that last roster spot. But what are you going to do??? His dad was our hall of fame player.