A bit of trade speculation surrounding Cousins...
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Only outside threat is Hood, those lanes would be clogged. Unless Giannis gets a lot better at shooting but right now he can only score on layups and dunks.
Cousins would immediately become the best player on our team by a fair margin. It also appears he is pleasable given how he dealt with Mike Malone. I would 100% make sure he's down to come here before trading for him though. It's probably likely he wouldn't want to share with Gobert and they both want to operate in the same space. There's a fair chance of recreating a Gasol/Noah problem.
green
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No thanks.
green
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It's tempting, but we have too good of a foundation here to touch that. Favors isn't as good as Cousins, but he isn't far behind. You know Favors and Gobert work. You know Hayward works with those two. I don't know why you mess with those three, especially for a player with Cousins history.
With Hayward, Favors and Gobert your floor is 38 wins, your ceiling is 60+ wins. With Cousins, your floor is, what? 20 wins? You ceiling might be 3-5 wins higher.
It doesn't make sense to trade for Cousins. Not now.
Jamezz
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green
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How would you score with that team. You could literally put one man on Hood and double team the bigs. You'd never score. No ball handlers, no shooters, how would execute any offensive play? You would be the worst most inefficient offense ever. I don't care how good the defense is, you have to score. This team would not.
Jamezz
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Giannis' offense will come around I have no doubt about it. We're talking about enlarging the 'development era' into a team with better potential even than what we currently have. Adding Giannis to this group would be huge man, I don't know what you're talking about.
Currently I put Giannis' potential at A and Hayward's at B- being generous. Plus Exum will start coming around as well and Favors and Gobert still have some wiggle room to improve on offense.
Take the Gordo blinders off...
Milwaukee would never do that trade so I'm not sure why we're talking about it...
Jamezz
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So you admit that Giannis has more value than Hayward, at least we're making some progress. What I think is stupid is to not even consider doing it for questionable offensive purposes.
Grandpa Jazz
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I didn't realize you could just wish for players to magically appear on Jazz roster and it would/could happen. Seeing as how it appears to be so, then I think you really should give more thought to who you put there.
Oh, and Cousins acquisition would make me into a fan of some other team. Even if he came here and played for free and cost us nothing. Poison- read label. Why you think Sac. is unhappy enough to peddle him as talented as he is?
Park Bites
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I was wondering if the no sactowns would just take a bunch of pick for cousins and then salary fodder t make it work out.