06-27-2023, 08:59 AM
(06-27-2023, 07:24 AM)ItsGoTime Wrote: I waffle on Ayton so much, but only because of the price tag to acquire.
I think the dump trade for Ayton might be fine (I think the change of scenery will at least have him working hard for the first year) IF the predicted Kyrie asking out after a year is a thing (no way we know for sure) and we can get a much better return on him than we gave.
At that point, his salary can be tolerable. Someone said earlier too, and I kinda liked the thought of Ayton eventually getting pushed to play harder (on a team he likes better hopefully) by Lively (and vice versa to prove himself worthy) and we trade the one that we like better so the other can shine (what Atl should be doing with Capela or Okongwu right now).
The other side of this waffle is exactly what we had with KP and what Dundalis just talked about. If he isn’t happy with being the 3-4th guy in Phx and thinks he’s more, how would that change here, unless we don’t resign Kyrie? We would be exactly the same stop as KP in his journey of discovering he isn’t that guy (KP recently said he could have had a better mindset in Dallas to make things work better with Luka).
I guess I’ll just sit on the fence and if they pull that trigger I’ll be neither happy or upset, I’ll just wait and see.
There had to be more to it. THJ is ok as a player but Holmes is a question mark. They are supposedly trading a starting center for a rotation player and a maybe?
There isn't even much salary cap savings - a little in year 2 and the entire year 3