We need to trade Sengun while his value is at its highest

Great comment! Too many posters ignore the salary side of the equation. The new 2nd apron rules are very onerous. Sengun is on a value contract for the next 4 years and that alone makes me wary of trading him.

 

Good fit but I don’t think it would put us in serious title contention

 

Yep. We would still need to upgrade FVV with Amen and upgrade Dillon and/or Jalen with better 3 & d players. I also think if we added a 3 pt shooter at PF like John Collins we could move Jabari to small forward. A lineup of Amen, Jalen, Jabari, Collins, and Adebayo would be pretty spicy.

 

Who is a better 3&D player than Brooks who is available?

If you want to add 3&D players, why are you so anxious to get rid of our best one (who is also on a good value contract)?

 

I’m not anxious to get rid of Dillon, but he is too one-dimensional on offense. He shot incredibly from 3 this year and he is a good not great defender who is declining on that side of the ball. He also has consistently disappeared in the playoffs in his career. You are also presuming he will continue to shoot like he did this year, which was an anomaly, but hopefully he can sustain. He is a crappy passer, crappy ball handler, and one of the worst rebounding front court starting players in the league. He would be a perfect bench player so upgrading him doesn’t necessarily mean trading him.

 

Tari Eason or Jabari Smith

 

Hahaha. Great answer!

 

That would be interesting and might mean Bari gets more touches at his spots (elbows and mid post). The offense would look completely different. I don’t know much about Collins other than being overpaid, but didn’t he have defensive issues?

 

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"Our team was kind of at a crossroads," Buchanan told The Athletic by phone on Friday while reflecting on the Haliburton trade. "We didn't really have a guy, like a young player, that you could really build around. Now Domas (Sabonis) was a terrific player and a very productive player. But we felt like in today's modern NBA, it's hard to build around a center unless you've got, like, a (Denver Nuggets star Nikola) Jokic - an MVP-caliber center."

This is the exact point I was saying about Sengun. Is he ever going to win an MVP? If not, then building around him in is a huge mistake. We cannot be paying Sengun max money in the near future in a league like this. I love Sengun, he's going to have a successful career no matter where he goes but in today's league, a center on max money just means you will not make the finals.

 

The team’s biggest weakness is shooting, and so y’all want to trade our best 3-pt shooter.

 

Dillon has been great offensively but I think his defense is vastly overrated now. I'd rather give his minutes to Jabari. Who could easily be a better shooter and has much more potential. I never said anything about trading Dillon. I just want his role reduced to give other guys more minutes who deserve it. Jabari absolutely lit it up in playoffs and should have gotten 30 plus minutes a night.

 

Bari or Tari may be better 1-1 defenders but Brooks still has toughness and probably the best switch defender on the team. He plays great help defense in closing out driving lanes. Great awareness. Savvy player who takes charges, knows when to flop etc. also leader on the court. I dunno who should start I’m just saying Brooks is underrated in what he brings sometimes.

 

100% agreed.....

Unless he has a 3pt shot.

DD

 

When we went down 1-3 all of the games were competitive. The top two reasons we fell to that position were free throws and a lack of offensive production on the perimeter. Game 4 you could argue was lost due to coaching. That was the game Ime benched Adams for a portion of the 4th to avoid the hack-a-shaq.

 

? Rockets lost game 3 in the last 3:42 of that game letting GP2 slip and score and also wide open 3’s due to weak traps on curry or lack of help rotation. Despite terrible FT shooting poor defense lost us that game.

 

Don't get me wrong I know what Dillon brings. I just feel like after he came back from the injury his defense took a huge step back. He was also committing a lot of dumb fouls.

I feel like Jabari is a better help defender, and Tari is a better man defender but both offer a much bigger upside. That's the only reason I want them to play. Because ultimately this team wasn't good enough to win so we needed to play our young guys more.

 

Sengun isn’t making Max money and it won’t be even really close in a couple years.

 

I have given up, I mean what do you expect from the bottom of fandom.

 

There's a startling amount of people who actually believe trading Sengun for a lesser player who "fits better" would make us a better team. He's currently flawed, and shouldn't be untouchable, but he was...by far, our most valuable offensive player, and still has obvious upside if he can ever develop that 3 ball.

If Sengun is traded, it should only be a for a true alpha level scorer. He's 22 and was the best player on a 50 win team, it would be the height of shortsighted absurdity to move him for anything less. I would rather do nothing or very little than panic trade ala Sacramento with Haliburton.

Pairing him up with a an actual perimeter scorer should be the first point of attack this offseason, instead of being forced to rely on sorry ass Jalen Green

 

Bryant with the appropriate emotion after hearing he is considered to replace Alperen.