To me, Middleton is a 3/4-- a position of strength. I know he plays minutes at SG, but I can't really access his defensive ratings against 2-guards (gonna assume it isn't particularly great)-- not only that, but we're deep at SG as well.
I just think that we need to come to terms with three things:
1) our enormous amounts of cap-room does NOT need to be utilized THIS OFFSEASON. Guess what-- we have until February to take on "massive contracts", for pennies. We can pull a Boston, and grab the likes of an Isaiah Thomas for effectively nothing but cap-space. This way, we get from October to February to evaluate our baking-cake, and decide whether we are better off giving up on a giving prospect and addressing a positional need, or if continued nurturing brings us closer to a championship that we all so desire. Think about how many decent players that are gonna be unloaded in preparation for the big-FA sweepstakes (as is literally being done right now a la Danny Green, etc.)
2) the team with the most talent =/= the team that wins. Chemistry matters-- every NBA player will tell you so.
3) there is a spectrum of benefit between asset accumulation and nurturing already-acquired assets. The extreme of either is never the approach you want to take.
We are uniquely in a position where we don't really know what we have with Burks, and we are expecting huge gains from
Hood (the dudes adding a ****ing post-game for God's sake)-- putting either player in roles where they won't succeed could completely nullify any positives brought forth by the likes of Carroll or Green.
Personally, I'm much more willing to hold out until February before we make big swings in roster moves, unless it's to buy-out Tomic, or add some other backup-5. It's interesting that people are unwilling to remove Exum from starting, yet they're willing to jerk around the likes of Hood and Burks.
