Agreed, that is an great comparison. I'm just more partial to 2 way players. Imagine how excited I got when Harden decided to commit completely to defense last season, best of both worlds - scoring AND steals leader.
SImmons, Thybulle, and Woods would be a good, modern defensive core, though a bit on the lighter side against the bigger centers. Otherwise, you just need shooters and scorers. EGO, House, and Bmac are already here and Woods has some great potential but needs a bigger sample size. Naturally you'd want to move Wall's contract (unless he lives up to it which is unlikely) so you could go after an elite scorer/shooter or fill out the roster with more complimentary players.
Wall and Simmons are on max contracts lavine is making almost 20 a year and is do a contract in 2022 so my argument remains the same. So you are looking to trade Wall not have lead the team? And then building your team around Lavine and Simmons hoping for an upside play that will lead to him wanting max money? Like I said that team does not crack the top 4 in west and might not make the playoffs.
If we trade for Simmons our best hope is his value remains high enough that we can flip him for someone better.
Exactly this. I would even try to get a 3rd team involved that really wants him or sees him as a missing piece. If you can extract: Simmons Thybulle 2 1sts From Morey, you move Simmons to another team...say to the Bulls...for Markannen, Otto Porter Jr (OPM lives! Also he is needed for cap matching purposes), and Coby White (do they really need him if they're getting back Simmons to pair with Lavine in the backcourt?), you now have: Thybulle (rookie contract) Markannen (due for an extension) White (rookie contract) Porter ($28 million coming off the books after this season) 2 1sts To me that's better than whatever package Brooklyn can give us. Maybe you extract a heavily protected 1st to make it 3 1sts.
