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2022 Everything Free Agency/Trades Thread
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LPKingsFan
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I could quibble with some of the minutes allocations (I’d guess slightly fewer minutes for Murray in place of 3-guard sets with Barnes sliding to PF) but this is a good rundown of how the rotation is pretty much full at the moment. If you’re hoping for an upgrade to “move the needle” (which seems to be the term I keep seeing here and on Twitter), it’s going to have to come from one of the major minute guys improving (Fox) or potentially upgraded via trade (Barnes?).
Kings49ers
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I agree completely. The one area I think we can “upgrade” a little is by adding a Martin brother or Bruce Brown (likely wishful thinking) in place of Holiday and tacking on a handful of more minutes for them. Either brother or Brown would improve the second lines defense and they are young enough that they could grow our core once Barnes is gone. I don’t expect any option at this point to grow into a starter in the near future but the quality of depth would be improved for life after Barnes. While Barnes shot has improved over the years, his defense is slowly declining, not a ton to make him a liability or anything but it would be nice to bring in a 3 and D younger piece behind him.
In all likelihood though only 9-10 players will be seeing significant minutes. Fox, Mitchell, Monk, Barnes, Murray, Sabonis, Holmes (7/9). TD, Lyles, Metu, Holiday, or any likely FA addition on a minimum deal will be fighting over scraps for the those remaining 2-3 spots for nightly minutes.
Kings49ers
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Noooooo, at such a reasonable deal too. Damn you Harkless, damn you.
From a Nuggets perspective though, getting Murray back from injury with KCP, Bones Hyland and now Brown is very nice despite losing Morris and Barton (although Barton is starting to fall off and not worth his contract).
macadocious
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why?
Smh, keeping my boy Hartenstein in a limited minutes role.
Kings49ers
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I think he’ll see time as both a 4 and 5 there, he’ll be able to play with Randle and Mitchell. But I feel ya, I was hoping Hartenstein would get all the run possible to see what he can do.
Is Hartenstein any good? As Zubac started over him. Of course to his benefit he was only 23 last season. But please tell me about the guy.
Damn you Tetsujin! Fastest guy on KF
Hoovtrain
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Fingers crossed to us lol
Kingster
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If only....
KainLear
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It's still a bit baffling to me about this whole DDV situation. Maybe he really didn't want to be here or that his attitude isn't what McNair wants to be around our new kids? I guess time will tell... ?
So I guess Monk is going to be the DDV replacement going forward then? Maybe Coach Brown is confident in drawing all the defense out of everyone?
Letsgokings13
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I'm thinking he just had a bad attitude when he finally got here and Monte didn't want that affecting the positive momentum we have going now. I mean he was already complaining about playing time/starting when he got here even though he played around 30 min a game. He was also still recovering from injury to a degree. I'm glad he's gone and happy Monk is in his spot.
Dongoodboy
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A guy like Masai Ujiri would probably line up a package for Durant
Yeah we can still pay him more than anyone else. As we get later into day 2, I wonder if we might see him back?
2 year deal for more money? Keep him on that Sabonis/Monk contract timeline, give this thing a real 2 year chance to work.
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