Heck, we were one of the worst teams in the NBA last year and Jalen Green was supposedly our best player
Jalen Green dribbles like a YMCA player....by the way, Donavan Mitchell is averaging 29 pts per game vs Jalen Green 19 pts per game
Cavs aren't idiots. Even tho Mitchell is on 1 year, when star players like that get traded, they usually agree to re-sign the following off-season meaning they'll demand us to give them multiple picks. Also, you never swing for the fences until you have at least two established stars. Right now Sengun is just entering that talk, not established yet until he wins some awards. Bulls tried doing that with Lavine and look how it blew up in their faces, now they're screwed with no picks. OKC would be a team that should be swinging for the fences soon, they have SGA (all-nba), JW (future all-star potential) and Chet who's averaging 50/40/90 in his rookie season. They also have more 1st round picks than multiple teams combined.
Donavan Mitchell torched us last night while Jalen Green was out there looking like a G League rotational player
I like Mitchell but is he really the guy you want to cash all the trade chips in for? He is a nice player but I don't think of him as somebody that will be routinely competing for championships.
I think we put too much emphasis on Mitchell not making the WCF with his stint with the Jazz...that Jazz team in my opinion had a bunch of good role players with Mitchell not having a dominant sidekick. Put in the right situation like LeBron with AD, Luka with Kyrie, Tatum with Brown, and Mitchell will be discussed on that level
Yup I’d trade in some chips for him. He’s undersized but a hard nosed player and great scorer. No clue what the team does over the next 2 years with him but I think we are pretty dangerous with him. We could easily have 5 more wins with Mitchell over Jalen. Also the players routinely competing for a championship aren’t on the table. I believe he’s the best out of anyone possibly available and he fits our exact need.
Mitchell is good but you don't want to bring him in without having an out and out superstar already on your team. We don't have that just yet and none of players probably have that ceiling.
So dumb on so many levels. It’s not even worth explaining to someone who puts so little thought into things.
Top 10 players just aren't for sale, and even if one became available, it's almost always them picking their new team and not a pure bidding war, not that we'd have the assets to win a pure bidding war anyhow. When LBJ/Durant/Harden's move it's to exactly where they want. Mitchell is a top 20 caliber player, at 27 years old with no major injury concerns, with a skill set that would fill our biggest need (elite perimeter scorer), I can't think of too many better options. That all being said, I'm doubtful Mitchell ever becomes an option for us. Probably pulls out the usual demands to NYK or Miami without the willingness to re-sign elsewhere.
I just don't want a guy who's gotta be The Guy, the #1 option, "I get the ball every time up the floor" unless he's a legit top 10 player, and Mitchell ain't that. He's also a bit older than I'm comfortable with for pairing with the rest of our young guys. Would he make us better this season and next season? Yeah, sure. Would he make us better in 3-5 years when we're contending for championships? I kinda doubt it. Especially since he'll be 30-32 years old at that point. If we make a major trade for somebody, I want him to be 26 or younger, and I want him to be a guy who is very comfortable playing off the ball. Neither of those describes Donovan Mitchell.
30-32 is a totally fine age to be competing for a championship lol If Jokic and Murray can work with MPJ and Gordon in between them I don't see why Mitchell and Sengun couldn't work with Smith and Brooks in between them. It's really a great fit lol
