Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[Dundalis]

Yea, it's all very confusing to me how this is all going to work.  I said the same things about De Larrea's role in the summer league thread.  Fans usually have a good idea of what the rotation might look like.  I like the coach and maybe he's capable enough to install a ball movement style of play where you're not dependent on specific playmakers.

The only thing is I am getting deja vu about the PG thing.  We had people talking last summer about hey Dangelo Russell can be pretty good, and Exum is pretty good, and Brandon Williams might give you something.  And then it turned out that no all the people with major concerns were right and we were severely lacking at PG.  Now it's the same thing with De Larrea, Nembhard, and Sasser.  De Larrea is 18.  Nembhard is undersized.  Sasser I don't even know.  To be honest, I am still skeptical this set of players will work.  I am leaning more towards they don't care if it works.  This is another developmental season.

To me it was partly forseeable purely because I think Jason Kidd is one of the worst offensive coaches in the league. Guy literally stands and watches like he says. If the pieces are there he can get a team playing defense, and he can develop players, but that's about it. Give him a generational playmaker to run the offense or there's gonna be problems. 

No clue how May is gonna adapt to the NBA, but I don't think he is the "Im just standing around watching" type like Kidd and probably is gonna attempt to implement some type of purposefully built offense that compliments the players he has. He seems like the basketball nerd who studies everything and cares about the details, where I think Kidd was the opposite, a savant player who just played and coached by instinct.