Trade & FA 2023-24: Stein-Ingram Trade Inevitable| LAL Want Lebron Back On Any Terms

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You might be right. That POV is certainly not a rare one.

For me, I just don’t see ANY indication that he’ll be a good defender or a good complementary offensive player (at least not a content one). He seems to want a  featured role with post touches, yet I see no evidence of those being merited by skill.

I just don’t like the player he is or even the player he’s trying to become, really. There’s a chance he gets better in a new situation, sure, and that will make the price the Mavs walked away from look silly in a certain light. But, the downside is that you’d have to PLAY him and make PLAYSTYLE concessions to get there. I get why they’re not interested in that.

You could argue that you can feature him with the second unit, where he can actually get the touched fed by Luka or Kyrie, while taking off the scoring pressure of our 2nd unit 3&D guys. He´s still an 18/10/2 guy on 59% FG. Last time a Mavs center did that, Kidd was probably still in high school.

The only downside for me is his attitude. As you say, that you have to potentially alter your play-style to keep him happy and engaged, because he´s not willing to "change" like Taiwan Dwight. At the same time, I´d argue he´d still have more trade value than a Holmes/THJ package.