MAVS NEWS:

[Smitty]

I saw this and started to post it myself.  One thing I wonder, but am too lazy to look up…is Max getting more of the minutes where Kidd is playing a PG while Klay has gotten more of the non-PG minutes.  It still leaves you with a chicken/egg situation.  Is DLo helping Max’s numbers or is it the other way around.  You also have to wonder if Klay is the culprit in the problems with the lineups with all the bigs or a victim of those lineups.  

I think some of this will sort itself out eventually.  Kidd makes frustrating lineup choices early in the year every season, but he eventually tends to get to things that work.  He’s tended to close with Max almost from day one, so he clearly values what he brings.  My favorite lineup would be Kyrie/Max/PJ/Flagg/Lively, but that isn’t realistic as a starting or closing lineup if AD is healthy.  It is more realistic to swap out AD for Lively.  If you do that, then Gafford and Klay is the logical outgoing trade package if you aren’t going to ever trade AD.

As usual, you and I are on the same page. I had the same thought exercise with the first paragraph and agree completely with the second.