A few things:
- I’ve said this before, but DL would have stayed at the helm of the Titanic, reassuring everyone, through his intermediaries and talking points, on how better seas lie ahead and how we shouldn’t judge things too harshly because that iceberg just happened to be the toughest part of the trip, and we won’t be hitting anymore icebergs. People ignore this, but the Dante Exum opportunity cost has been huge. People dismiss that because we had a good offseason and wanted to allow DL a few mulligans. That said, if DL would sacrifice so much opportunity for Exum (who’s shown what, exactly?), would anyone really believe that Conley, the guy he’s apparently been targeting for a while, he’s going to jettison a quarter of the way through the season? If things went really bad then the only real possibility would be in the offseason if there was an obvious upgrade, like maybe Griffin. Not saying that’s likely, just saying it would have to be a huge upgrade for him to pull that trigger. No lateral moves. At least no moves that he’d view as lateral. There’s no way he moves him mid-season. DL doesn’t like that from a personal level, and with Mike uprooting the family here, DL wouldn’t go for that for multiple reasons, some of which not liking to do that to people, others about PR issues. Hell, I’m shocked that he did it to Crowder (and was apparently willing to last deadline), but that was for his dream guy. I don’t think swapping Conley for Horford is the kind of upgrade DL would have in mind to get him to reconsider.
- Horford is older than Conley. He has three years left on his contract after this one at almost Conley levels.
- I’m not sure if we can acquire Neto this year. Perhaps since we didn’t actually waive him we can, but I’d have to defer to a CBA person.
- You could make an argument of Ingles/Exum for Horford. That’d be a huge wet dream for
@Jazz (and possibly for the rest of the forum, for different reasons).
- It’s certainly possible that in hindsight the Conley trade was a mistake. As much as it may seem like it, we’re nowhere near the point of hindsight.
