10-28-2021, 12:22 AM
(10-27-2021, 08:11 PM)cow Wrote: I'm sure the KP conundrum. We even had smoke last season about trades being explored. They probably just didn't get many attractive offers. Hope spring eternal and whatnot this past offseason, so I'd guess with KP finally having a healthy offseason and a new coaching regime, the plan was to see if that could help right this ship. It's probably too early to overreact, but his percentages aren't great and if he misses our next game...I don't know. On the plus side, his body language has been much better and he is moving better on the defensive end. I do think he's a prime candidate for needing a fresh start and maybe he needs to be THE guy on a team, I just struggle to think who would trade for him. I mentioned this in another thread but with his contract and injury history, we might be looking at return of what Barnes got us when we trade him to the Kings. And while that might be okay from a cap saving standpoint, we just added a bunch of pressure on Nico to fill that second star role.
The problem is it is too late for a Barnes trade. We can't do anything with that cap space due to Luka extension. If we were going to do something like that, it would have had to be in the offseason when we could have made some use of that extra cap. Our track record has not been great on using cap space, but at a minimum we could of snagged Holmes and gone harder at someone like Powell. Right now a Holmes/DFS/Luka/Bullock/Powell looks pretty good.
Now that cap space is useless, I don't see any chance we trade him until he generates some market value (which may be never).