itzcoatl
Bench
Yes top3 or 4 protected trade would be fine at this point.
Trade Deadline Thread
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If we can move Holmes for Washington type move I think then Barnes is stuck here? I don't know if I like Barnes at 4 with Sabonis. I guess it might be time to try Mitchell, Fox, Barnes, Bagley and Sabonis if we don't have something huge up our sleeve.
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.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
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.
Ohh, this is real real interesting. I like this deal a lot. Royce would be a quality, quality fit on the wing that'll help the Kings defense/spacing and they get a few reset assets to restock the Hali loss. Davion-Royce-PJ next to Fox/Sabonis could absolutely work.
AaronPDX
Bench
I also hated drafting Jimmer and Stauskas. I was wrong Turkoglu, though. LOL
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
Even if we don’t swing the PJ deal, *gasp* Marvin Bagley could be an interactivity next to Sabonis.
SLAB
Hall of Famer
UNPROTECTED FIRST!
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
kb02
All-Star
Dude, it’s going to be unprotected now. Only reason why Monte kept it.
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.
kb02
All-Star
You still need Fox to be a star. And that is a team with two black holes still. They’ll make the play in, but it’ll set this team back 5 yrs. 5 yrs of treadmilling. Guaranteed.
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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there’s no way we’re actually entertaining starting fox/Mitchell I refuse to believe it might as well ad Ben Simmons and go the opposite of having the splash brothers
Ya and he left Jokic so he can go chuck up more shot while being on a bad team
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
A bit more complicated than that because part of the reason he left was he wanted to play for a black coach too. We’ll just have to see how it a,k shakes out.
Hoovtrain
All-Star
lol so literally the only good trades/moves this team has made in 38years that coincided during one period of time when they had a legit GM. big difference here is Geoff Petrie ain’t running the show
iowamcnabb
Hall of Famer
I think at this point I’d rather see if Pj can be had for Holmes. Cheaper acquisition and maybe still some untapped upside.
Mitchell
Fox
Barnes
PJ
Sabonis
that’s not too bad and we still keep our pick.
SwipaTical
G-League
I guess that'll leave the door open for people to say:
"tHeY dIdNt pUt eNoUgH aRoUnD fOx"
That 3pt shot better improve.
long term who knows but we need Mitchell's defense and we just shipped two of the players in the way of that pairing.
sactowndog
All-Star
it would be unless you actually wanted to shoot from somewhere other than the lane.
Sac.Kings
All-Star
I’m loving every second. My brother in law is an ultimate Lebron fan and watching this unfold and his reactions have been the highlight of the season for me since we still continue to suck.
