Recent content by mhindy

If the FO wants to tank but doesn't want to do it via resting, just find any trade that sends out Nurk and make the roster really badly unbalanced. Maybe nothing is available as far as other expirings, but that would be the easiest move.

If they could get a really big offer for Markkanen I think they'd have sent him out, but honestly I think keeping him makes a lot of sense with what our cap sheet will look like over the next few years. He'll be coming off his max by the time he's really declining at all, but he could still be...

Trae is also much much smaller than Keyonte, and plays less well off the ball. The rookie scale max is also different than vet maxes. If Keyonte hasn't improved his defense at all a few years from now it'll be a problem, but I don't really think it's likely he makes no progress at all on that...

I mean, they're just playing good basketball, and it's the young guys driving winning. Idk what you're supposed to do, this just isn't a 25 win team.

My impression is that because he was a later first round pick, it's mostly due to the delta between his cap-hold and extension number.

It's bad for the league to have teams that are in semi-permanent purgatory, I think having max salaries mostly save franchises from themselves.

If they don't want sexton on the roster, because he's going to take touches away from young guys, and also decided they still need the money to be expiring I really don't think it's that insane. Very reminiscent of bogey for ko.

They don't want salary on the books that far out. Is that correct? Who knows.

I don't think sexton is truly negative, but I'd guess we were only interested in taking back expiring deals to preserve cap for whatever reason. Additionally, he needed to be moved. We couldn't go into the season sitting him, and young guys have to play. I'd guess we could have taken on worse...

I'm the only one on the island, hope I turn out to be a genius.

And not to trade him? Please!

If there's a second move loaded up and ready to go I wouldn't hate it, if we're just going to roll with Lauri + Jaylen and burn essentially two top 5 picks between this year and next year to do it, yuck.

It makes some sense to me if they're either trying to prevent someone trading up to 4 or entice someone to do so for 5. Of course, could easily just take fears too.

That's where I'm at. I'd be pretty shocked if we didn't end up with Bailey or Johnson or a haul to trade back.

As long as it's not Kon.