I think the Warriors might. They're trying to win another championship this year and neither of those kids can help them do it. Wood can. And they'd have to send both to make salaries match. It's literally the only way the deal works.
Serious question since your insight is top on this boards imo. What role do you see wood playing on a championship team? Do you think his defense will cut it at as the lone 5? Do you think he’ll defer to a star guard? Is he with a max salary spot in a vacuum? i don’t have those answers myself but I think about them often. I don’t subscribe to the timeline narrative. Too often guys get traded away like Middleton or holiday or Lopez because they don’t fit the “timeline” only to turnaround and keep kicking it until the thirties and worth their salary.
you think he'd be interested in resigning here? would anyone? not unless we overpay to keep him. you think anyone would give us fair value for a 1 year or half year rental? nope. this is why he's got to be traded this deadline.
Honestly what the GM for Golden State would do is ask for both Wood and Gordon for Wiggins...the salary matches but we will not that. I do not like or trust that GM at Golden State. Many teams are going to be calling for Gordon with his high FG% and 3's%
Wood is not first option on championship contender. Like Capella, he would make an excellent 3rd option. It is ridiculous to trade a 20/10 player just because he is not the franchise cornerstone. Better to draft/trade for a franchise player BUT keep 2nd and 3rd option type players in meantime. Wood is only 26, the timeline BS narrative is vomitus for the shortsighted and parrots.
Middleton and Holiday were 22 when they were traded. Wood is 26. If you meant the Pelicans and Holiday I’d take 3 first round picks for Wood without thinking twice. Pelicans made the right decision with holiday there. But I do get your point. Personally I don’t think Wood is worth the max in a vacuum. Wood is a complementary player, a 3rd option at best. For comparison John Collins is a similar level player, but younger, and after an ECF run didn’t get a max deal. I’m not wasting a max slot on Wood when as a team we’re no where near the play in tournament, let alone actually competing. We would have to make a crazy jump during his contract year like Atlanta did. Id rather feature Wood until the deadline, pad his stats then flip him for maximum value. But… I will say if we had gotten Wood a season earlier. He would’ve been the perfect fit with Harden and Russ as a lob threat and floor spacer. Harden made Wood look elite in their short time together last year.
Like I said in another thread. Its not personal like people seem to act like it is. Its common sense we are rebuilding he's not a star the top five in next years draft will be bigs, theres no room for him here. Rockets need to focus on their rookies and not these vets.
Harden made him look like an all star KPJ makes him look like he belongs in China alongside DMo That tells me he needs to be traded to a contender with a good PG and if scouts are good there should be a market for him. The longer he’s here though, the more time other teams have to forget about how well he played alongside Harden. I think it’s time to move him as early as next month when trades start happening. Trade everyone not named Sengun at this point imo. I would even think about trading Green for a really good 2023 pick. We need a pick in that draft in the worst way. If there was a way to trade him back to OKC for our own pick that would be amazing… and hire a new scouting staff.
You are way overrating Wiseman. He does not have a good 3 pt shot. He has not showed anything when healthy (which hasn’t been often) to indicate anything more that a useful bench guy. That being said it would be worth the gamble for Wiseman and Kuminga or Murphy.
How about this starting lineup next year. KPJ, Tate, Banchero, Sequin, Wood. Bench Green, Theis, Garuba, KJM, JC. This would put Wood at his rightful position of C. Sequin, KPJ, Tate could all take turns facilitating the offense. If this doesn’t work then trade Wood next year. Our defense would be amazing. Of course it would be contigent on us getting Banchero by either getting lucky in the lottery or spending a lot of assets to move up.
Agree with this. I've said this in other threads before but it always seems like he couldn't care less about the team and is just trying to "get his" out there. I don't like his demeanor and he seems very selfish out there on the court. Frustrated when he doesn't get the ball type thing. I don't think he fits our timeline either. He isn't any better than he was last year. I think he can be a complimentary player on a good team (maybe off bench) but he is not someone to build around, IMO.
I dont really have a good reason to keep him. This year is going to be one of the worst on record and everything points to next year not being much better. He'll be 28 and due another contract by the time the team is barely relevant - if that. If you can get a haul like the ones described you do it. Wood to me is soft on defense and just doesnt affect the win column enough to warrant another, bigger contract as a featured player. I'll jump on the over-react wave and say he isnt a 20/10 guy RIGHT NOW. He's as inconsistent as some of the rookies and his Golden State game really turned me off.
Trade him for a decent point guard. Bring KPJ off the bench as instant offense or move him to the 2 spot and bring Green off the bench. Develop Sengun and Garuba with the minutes Woods was getting. We are stunting the growth of KPJ and Green by trying to force this backcourt to mesh. It will never work. KPJ isn’t a point guard and he never will be. It’s hard enough to try and develop 1 guy that’s 21 and under in the backcourt. Trying to develop a 21 AND a 19 year old at the same time when they have no clue WTF they’re doing is impossible. There’s a difference between youth/inexperience and being clueless.
