05-29-2023, 11:26 AM
(05-29-2023, 11:02 AM)StepBackJay Wrote: I guess my view of Green is lower than others. I am not sure he is worth more than a late first round pick.
Oh yeah, we definitely don't agree on this. JG is exactly what everyone is looking for. +D, high percentage on 3's. Can destroy closeouts, runs the floor and a good mover of the ball. I literally wouldn't trade him for DFS AND a late first round pick. People have underappreciated him from the beginning because of who he wasn't. But what he has become is incredibly valuable.
Unrelated to your idea (but related to Brooklyn), I've cooled considerably to the idea of dumping salary to them. They need to get under the tax this season (repeater) and signing Cam Johnson and taking on a salary into their TPE (like Bertans) isn't going to allow that to happen.
That leaves SA as the only team that can facilitate a salary dump before 7/1 ($22.1mm according to Spotrac). If it turns out we really aren't meeting with guys who might go at #10 and are meeting with guys in the late first or early second, I'd keep an eye on SA. I really like some things about the SCIC trade idea I posted above. It requires us to think of improvement as a two step process with the second step being what we can get from trading picks and using expiring contracts like Graham and Reggie. BTW, you know who is a trade match for Graham + Reggie? Draymond. Front court is now Draymond, Collins and Maxi. Mix and match any combination. All of them are very switchable. D goes up dramatically.