chief bromden
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I get you are the rainbows crowd and have always been……. But it wasn’t either or Barnes and Brooks. You could sign Brooks and go over the cap to sign Barnes.
we lost in the first round last year and now in the off season we:
1) we lost Prosper, Holmes, Metu, TD
2) gained Colby Jones, Duarte
Everyone else we had the rights to already and could have signed without the Holmes move.
we could easily had a line up of
Sabonis/Queta/Holmes
Murray/Lyles or Vezenkov
Barnes/ Kessler or Prosper
Huerter / Ellis or Jones
Fox / Monk / Mitchell
2 way: Slawson
instead our line-up is
Sabonis/Queta/Len???
Murray/Lyles or Vezenkov
Barnes/Kessler/Slawson???
Huerter/Duarte/Jones
Fox/Monk/Mitchell
2 way: Ellis, Slawson???
The difference
Any other org would be roasted for what happened in the off season so far
- Vivek saves money (+)
- We are stronger at 2 but don’t have more than TD minutes for that guy (-)
- We are dependent on Kessler being improved versus Kessler or Prosper (-)
- We still have holes at backup center and the 3 that we are looking at 3rd tier guys. (-)
OMax hasn't even played a summer league game yet and you are in all these threads bemoaning the fact that the Kings failed by trading away his draft rights. Why is it such a guarantee that he would contribute to a winning team in his first year? Why isn't Slawson just as good of a prospect as OMax for the 3 position, and why are we just glossing over Kessler like he can't improve?