04-01-2023, 08:30 AM
In retrospect it seems pretty obvious that the moment they did the Kyrie trade they should have sat Luka down for an honest talk:
List we screwed up with Brunson. This team is simply not good enough as currently constructed. We realize this now. That´s on us. Therefore we acquired Kyrie as step one, but we do not have pieces to win this season now. If you follow our lead, we´ll have in four months. We need to shut you and Kyrie down for the rest of the year. Get you both physically and emotionally healthy, ready and fit for next year. We will tank into bottom six odds, so we can keep our pick to either draft a generational talent that will alter our trajectory or use the pick to improve our roster in other ways. Furthermore we´ll accelerate the developments of Hardy and Green. Finally we´ll use the future pick to acquire a starting PF/C. That´s our quickest path forward.
List we screwed up with Brunson. This team is simply not good enough as currently constructed. We realize this now. That´s on us. Therefore we acquired Kyrie as step one, but we do not have pieces to win this season now. If you follow our lead, we´ll have in four months. We need to shut you and Kyrie down for the rest of the year. Get you both physically and emotionally healthy, ready and fit for next year. We will tank into bottom six odds, so we can keep our pick to either draft a generational talent that will alter our trajectory or use the pick to improve our roster in other ways. Furthermore we´ll accelerate the developments of Hardy and Green. Finally we´ll use the future pick to acquire a starting PF/C. That´s our quickest path forward.