03-27-2023, 11:02 AM
(03-27-2023, 08:42 AM)Chicagojk Wrote: I hated giving up DFS. While his role in Dallas was well established, I don't think losing him is the main reason for our collapse.
Agreed. This team seemed broken before that trade. It might be easy to write off a lot of the early season struggles on injuries as we certainly did get bit by that bug, but everything has felt out of whack this season and the obvious answer is JB being gone. Boy was I continually wrong about him.
RE: God King. Trading him made some sense. Once he got his new contract, you took one of the better bargains in the league and made him a fairly paid player. Using him for an upgrade at that point is good use of an asset. The problem becomes backfilling him and further exposes a weakness of the organization in scouting/player development.
Agreed also about Kyrie being a future plan and not a piece to flip the season. There are just too many holes and too many players on this team not living up to their hefty salaries. Sending out DFS weakened an already shaky defense.