I don’t completely disagree with you, but I think that they figured out what they had in Whitmore. And the best case that there is a maturation a few years down the road. I don’t think they want to sit around and wait for a Kevin Porter Junior like maturation and even then it doesn’t necessarily mean the player is fully on the road to righteousness. I definitely would’ve preferred That they got a first round pick for him though. I do think they sold a little bit low, but for all we know the league had a little bit of insight into him by then. Durant And the subsequent maturation of our core definitely opens a window. For the most part, I have been fine with the moves. We can’t always be so liberal in applying hindsight on the board.
No you keep rebuilding until you get a superstar the Rockets bought one who is way too old. Its gonna hurt the team in the long run no matter what pretty shooting percentages KD has. Listen if they got booker or KD was 30 years old I would say great trade but what they did is essentially hit a button that means we have to rebuild on the fly when KD leaves in a year or two and we'll have nothing to show for it. Our guys are too young to compete and KD is too old to be here when they hit their primes. In the meantime instead of starting Reed every game and developing him we have to do this win now thing because we arent developing players because we have unreal expectations because KD is here.
What younger players? Jalen and Cam, right? If you like them, you'd be mad they got rid of them. We still have five young players on the roster. That's still a lot of young guys to develop. Every one of them needs minutes. We knew we would need to consolidate sooner or later and mix in some vets that would fit.
