Trade Deadline Thread
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A shooter that can stretch the floor at the 2 spot would be pretty solid right about now.
I see the starting lineup as:
Fox
?? / Mitchell
Barnes
Sabonis
??
I think these spots need to be a 3&D sort of person. I don't know if Barnes is moved anymore, given that we are a team now devoid of floor spacing. Unfortunately, absent our FRP, I don't know that we have anything left to bring in a high quality talent at either position. I guess with Sabonis at the 5, maybe it's a little easier to squint and see Bagley there, but he's such an interior player himself that it would be weird to just have him out there launching 3s. Metu? Maybe. Mayyybe.
I see the starting lineup as:
Fox
?? / Mitchell
Barnes
Sabonis
??
I think these spots need to be a 3&D sort of person. I don't know if Barnes is moved anymore, given that we are a team now devoid of floor spacing. Unfortunately, absent our FRP, I don't know that we have anything left to bring in a high quality talent at either position. I guess with Sabonis at the 5, maybe it's a little easier to squint and see Bagley there, but he's such an interior player himself that it would be weird to just have him out there launching 3s. Metu? Maybe. Mayyybe.
Bagley and Lamb are both expirings and this keeps getting lost in the Tyrese/Sabonis discourse but Justin Holliday is a starting caliber wing. We’ve got lots of second round picks and all our firsts if we’re really intent on moving in on someone.
that Barnes for Ingles’ expiring/Royce O’Neale/Butler/frp wayyyy in the future deal might actually make sense now since I can see Royce playing some two in a non-Utah system and Butler is a good guard prospect to take a flier on now that we don’t have Tyrese.
that Barnes for Ingles’ expiring/Royce O’Neale/Butler/frp wayyyy in the future deal might actually make sense now since I can see Royce playing some two in a non-Utah system and Butler is a good guard prospect to take a flier on now that we don’t have Tyrese.
But to be fair, there have been other things that fans hated that didn't work out quite as well. We're basically hoping that Sabonis will be the second coming of Webber (possible-ish, I guess?) but instead of giving up a 33-year-old Mitch Richmond to get him, we gave up a 21-year-old PG who most of us thought was a sure-fire perennial all-star in just a few years. It's not the Sabonis part that people are upset about.
I'm just operating going forward from the stance that Vivek will never commit to a rebuild as an owner. That's just been made abundantly clear today of all days. I've long been on record (going on like 5+ years) this team needs to properly reset, but it's just not going to happen.
We'll see how McNair cleans up the deadline and the current logjams. I have no idea if McNair can actually make this team good. I do know Sabonis is pretty easily the 3rd best player we've ever traded for and Fox/Sabonis is the most talented duo we've had since Peja/C-Webb. He pushed his biggest chip in and is now on the clock to make this work.
I was also never on the "OMG FOX SUCKS" train that some of you jumped on this season. So maybe that's it.
We'll see how McNair cleans up the deadline and the current logjams. I have no idea if McNair can actually make this team good. I do know Sabonis is pretty easily the 3rd best player we've ever traded for and Fox/Sabonis is the most talented duo we've had since Peja/C-Webb. He pushed his biggest chip in and is now on the clock to make this work.
I was also never on the "OMG FOX SUCKS" train that some of you jumped on this season. So maybe that's it.
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