Like I said, if your stance is that there can be no substitutions whatsoever, it's difficult for different reasons. We already talked about those difficult, mainly being that it's a **** ton of stuff, so no need to rehash that. People seem to be really upset by the act of discussing a topic on a discussion forum. So I will refrain. I do think you could potentially get that value elsewhere with Kuminga (perhaps in a 3 teamer if we don't like him), but don't want to open up a discussion that will make people mad because we discuss it.
If the inclusion of Podz means substitution, then can you agree that it makes things very difficult sense? I mean, at a base level this is what every deal is. The Warriors won't trade for Lauri if they don't want him more than us. Every asset in the deal is going to be evaluated this way. There are some assets that mean more to UTA than GSW, those are the pieces that make most sense in the deal.
This is precisely my point. If Lauri means more to us, then I would also say no deal with GSW makes sense. Whether that is true or not, that is a much larger consideration and we'll find out with time. If there is a trade, I can definitely say that Warriors did not want him more than us and the opposite is true if no deal is made. It's always going to be troubling when trying to trade for a player who is valued more by his current team than you. You can be over the moon for a player, but if it's less than his current team, probably not gonna happen.
