DASMACKDOWN wrote:HomoSapien wrote:DuckIII wrote:
We’re still not going to get anywhere near that. Lavine is still going to be the centerpiece of our offense even with Giddey having the ball.
This is not a good situation. His presence on the roster is badly counterproductive to the things we need to be doing this year.
He is. The easiest way to remedy that is to commit to him and trade Coby. I'm not particularly in favor of this path, but Coby will have significantly higher trade value than LaVine and if we're being honest Zach at his best is probably still better than Coby at his best
Ive heard people say this as a "what if" lately but I know it wouldn't even be an option under this regime.
If we trade Coby while keeping the Malcontent, we are basically deciding to burn it down even further. Malcontents don't turn it around and be happy in their situation. They always still get traded.
This team without Coby and Zach would rival Portland and Washington and bottom 3 feeder. Maybe worse. Something AKME clearly do not want to do.
So even if they did make a trade like that, they would just burn their new cap space on another player anyway. Now you will be paying someone else big money who may not even be better than if you kept Coby.
As fans though, we seem to have such short term memory. And people tend to cherry pick results of franchises that happen to do well.
You have to understand that when you tank or are perpetually bad, the coaching staff generally is bad too. That is when you have this carousal of bad coaches and management, that sours the psyche of their good young players. Basically you never get any good.
At the end of the day, its luck as I have always said. Whether its drafting, free agent signings or trades.
No good team is built exactly the same way. If there were a sure prototype, teams would routinely take 2-3 years after lottery to get back into contention. That clearly isn't true.
People always say we can stomach a rebuild. I say most people can not.
Most people can stomach a season or two. Its new, its no expectations, its kinda fun cause its different.
But that novelty wears off very quickly. We were real excited the first 2 years after the Jimmy trade. But the last 2 years were about as painful and nauseating as it could get.
I really enjoyed the last 2 years under Jim Boylen - SAID NO ONE EVER.
That is when Fire GarPax began.
But back to your point, if Coby were to get traded, it has to be a trade that we can't refuse. An actual Unprotected pick(s). Not some high protected lottery pick situation.
I would feel much better of that, then to just trade for trades sake.
Not always. Kobe wanted out of Los Angeles at one point. I do agree that there is no long term future for LaVine here unless we magically win 50+ games next season.
