Eh. 35-year-old scorer who can’t/doesn’t shoot 3s (I don’t want to hear about how he can shoot 3s…. It’s the same people telling me that Sabonis can too).
The floor spacing would be atrocious and the defense wouldn’t be improved, but I don’t think Monte can afford to go into next season without making a big move.
That’s the only reason why I would be semi-ok with this. Our current team isn’t working and I can’t be mad at him if he tries something else.
Don’t think we should give up a 1st though.
I get the fit concerns but there is no perfect fit available. Markkanen is the closest thing to that (that's available) but it seems like Utah wants about half a dozen first rounders and that's just not realistic. Both BI and DDR have similar games, albeit BI is a bit better from outside. DDR is at least durable.
After watching games once Keon entered the starting lineup, I really don't think defense was the Kings problem anymore. Yeah it could always be better but they were losing games pretty much entirely on their 3pt shooting. If they were on, they won. If they were off, they lost.
Even though the floor spacing won't be as good, one thing I do like is that DDR's game isn't dependent on whether or not he's hot or cold from outside. He just does his thing, pretty damn consistently. The Kings could have used him those nights where they couldn't buy a bucket from the outside and just needed to put points on the board.
The move would also move Keegan over to the 4, which I don't like but I really do think that he needs to get stronger and hold down the 4 because I feel like that's going to be his best position moving forward.