Bricklayer said:
Before we got SAR, Kenny was not a "move at all costs" until/unless we picked up another PF, because he was the best we had. And if we had pciked up a Reggie Evans or whatnot, he still wouldn't have been a move at all costs because there still would have been a lot of minutes leftover, some of our toughness issues wouold have been addressed etc. Still think it would have been a good idea to move him, but not a move at all costs.
But now things have changed. All summer long people on here have been completely ignoring the teams needs in favor of a fantasy basketball approach to things where you add up the numbers and go -- ooh, good team! But now we are significantly formed. Probably at least. I take it as a given that when you pick up two significant players in the offseason, that they we be there in the fall. And the "core" was putatively untouchable, although that is not a sure thing. So now much of the uncertaintly has been resolved. The starting lineup is likely set. That makes it VERY easy to tell what we have, and what we don't have and therefore need form the bench. And what we need from the bench is defense, size up front, shotblocking etc. Its not there in the starting lineup, assuming this remains the starting lineup. So it has to come from the bench or we're just not going to have it at all. And those things are not KT. If Reggie Evans is your starter, than KT can come off the bench and be a scoring change of pace -- give you something you do not get from the starter. If SAR is your starter, and eating up huge minutes as he will, then KT adds nothing, patches no holes, may not be getting enough minutes to stay happy, and certainly not enough to justify that contract.
And so yes, given the bloated contracts, the limited usefulness for us, and indeed the possibility to actively get in the way if they get minutes over the defensive types we need, Corliss and KT should be gone. And certainly one of them as there is no way now they both get minutes. That was the "flexibility doctrine" from the beginning anyway. They are the last significant trade pieces we have without breaking up the starting lineup. I wouldn't mind if we did do that, but if we're not, and if we really do want to even be pretenders to a title, we need to use KT and Corliss to try to bring back a player or players who DO patch our weaknesses, give us those things we currently lack.
But now things have changed. All summer long people on here have been completely ignoring the teams needs in favor of a fantasy basketball approach to things where you add up the numbers and go -- ooh, good team! But now we are significantly formed. Probably at least. I take it as a given that when you pick up two significant players in the offseason, that they we be there in the fall. And the "core" was putatively untouchable, although that is not a sure thing. So now much of the uncertaintly has been resolved. The starting lineup is likely set. That makes it VERY easy to tell what we have, and what we don't have and therefore need form the bench. And what we need from the bench is defense, size up front, shotblocking etc. Its not there in the starting lineup, assuming this remains the starting lineup. So it has to come from the bench or we're just not going to have it at all. And those things are not KT. If Reggie Evans is your starter, than KT can come off the bench and be a scoring change of pace -- give you something you do not get from the starter. If SAR is your starter, and eating up huge minutes as he will, then KT adds nothing, patches no holes, may not be getting enough minutes to stay happy, and certainly not enough to justify that contract.
And so yes, given the bloated contracts, the limited usefulness for us, and indeed the possibility to actively get in the way if they get minutes over the defensive types we need, Corliss and KT should be gone. And certainly one of them as there is no way now they both get minutes. That was the "flexibility doctrine" from the beginning anyway. They are the last significant trade pieces we have without breaking up the starting lineup. I wouldn't mind if we did do that, but if we're not, and if we really do want to even be pretenders to a title, we need to use KT and Corliss to try to bring back a player or players who DO patch our weaknesses, give us those things we currently lack.
