It didn't have to happen. We could have just paid Favors and played Doke more.
We get a trade exception now… but no way we use all of it.
We have a $5 million one that expires in a few weeks I have no expectation that we will use.
what were you expecting? OKC is doing us a favor by taking Favors and his bad contract. I do not like giving away draft picks but in this case we had to do it. The only good thing is that first might be very low the next few years and the 2nd we got may be a high second round pick because OKC is still going to be bad for awhile. That is if the 2nd is from OKC. This is a good business move but it could also be a good basketball move if Udoka gets playing time and does well. We have to find out if he can play or not. I just hope this is our front office thinking.
Yep. They will trade him to some place like Boston for Tristan Thompson straight up and get cap space for next summer. Rinse and repeat.
4, but can play small 5. Would we trust Doke come playoff time anyway?
Depends on how he plays in the season. Some guys get exposed in playoffs and others thrive. You have to find out.
Now that we have traded Favors, I want our playoff C position to look like:
I agree, although I'm not confident Quin will be flexible enough or even capable of coaching a different defensive scheme.
Semantics. We weren’t winning it all running it back with an identical core. We need to adapt on the fly; sign Gay or someone like that to have a shot, do something. And keeping Favors and signing Gay AND re-signing Conley would’ve brought on an absurd tax. Smith could pay it, of course, but why pay it when you can save the money and play Udoka? And/or sign a third center for far far cheaper. It just makes too much sense—unless of course the 1st is only top five protected. This added with the fact that Favors is just a crappy contract and it had to happen IMO.
