D'Angelo Russell Discussion: Adopting A Professional Attitude

I haven't read everyone's thoughts I this yet, but I absolutely hate this trade for so many reason:

1) We lose our only shooter currently on the roster
2) If we go with Lonzo, which now we better, we need shooters on the team. Russell was the only one that I felt great about in this department
3) Giving up on a 21 year old kid who by many stats ranked exceptionally well based on his age and experience when comparing them with other great PGs who were also this same age
4) Even if you want to trade him, let him play out this next year, see his development and get a better sense of him with Lonzo and another year with Luke and then by the deadline you can think about something. WHAT IS THE RUSH????
5) Paul George affect - his agent represents Randle, Russell, and PG. Both PG and his agent have made it known it would be great to all play together and be under the same roof
5a) This may hurt the relationship and trust between PG and his agent with trusting us and internally continuing to worse his way to LA based on how we just treated Russell.
6) Brook will likely not be on our team after next year as he was just valueable because his contract will come off the books after next season but we couldn't have gotten more back then the 27th pick and Caris Levert (nice prospect but always hurt)???

And lastly my biggest frustration:

7) This trade signals to me the most damning thing which is we are rushing into trying to hit a homerun with PG this year and Lebron next year and sacrificing young assets for it when GSW aren't going anywhere. Up until this point I had confidence in our FO that they knew they had to be smart and grow this team organically with our young guys at the center of it all. Bring in PG this year or next off-season and then potentially stretch moz or deng contracts to make room of another star player other than LBJ. But this doesn't appear to be what is happening by all reports - mostly notably this trade and then the fact there is a report that we are offering 28,27 and either JC or Randle for PG13 now.

You DO NOT TRADE:

#2
Ingram
Russell
Randle
Zu

Options TO MOVE:

28
Nance
JC
anyone else

PLAIN AND SIMPLE

 

ESPN Radio -- MadDog (sorry, I'm in my car all day and listen to ESPN), but he said Bird was an absolute fool for not trading PG13 at the trade deadline last year and that's why the offers are so low now. Will be even lower at trade deadline this year. After that, he walks for nothing.

Having said that, Magic trading Moz when he could is similar. Can't wait until it's time to sign a big name FA and we gotta find someone to take Moz. Do it when you can. I hate seeing DLO go, but it appears we are the only ones high on him.

I'm willing to trust the process (like I have a choice).

 

Oh so a 37+ year old player next year with all this mileage and miraculously hasn't gotten hurt and is on the verge of regression in his game and body.

Can't wait...

 

I don't. Lebron can get us rings and I'll never root for him.

My hate is deep.

 

I'll be a hypocrite if it gets us a 17th banner.

 

We'll see how all this unfolds, but I'm actually not that upset about this.

If Mitch and Jim didn't screw us with the stupid Mozgov deal, then this wouldn't have been an issue. There was no reason for that deal, and we're now paying the price for it by trying to dump that salary.

I thought we'd get more for D'Angelo Russell, but I also don't think he's going to be a star in this league anyway. He can prove me wrong, but I'm not going to miss him.