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

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I mean, I'm sure Luka didn't handle it perfectly, but the bottom line is that he should have been a spot up shooter, pick and pop, pick and roll guy and he didn't want to do that here.  He didn't want to set picks and instead wanted to ISO.  That wasn't necessary to play with Luka, it was necessary for him to be most effective, a concept that both Rick and Kidd tried to convince him of.  He is doing in Boston what we needed him to do here.  I'm not sure how its Luka's fault that KP didn't want to set picks.

I'm assuming that Luka asked that Porzingis be traded.  That's where I would assume some blame on Luka.  I think Rick deserves some blame as well for trying to use Porzingis as a decoy and having him just stand in the corner on offense too often.  I agree that the iso and post-ups didn't work well.  I have no doubt that Porzingis is a big reason why Porzingis didn't work out in Dallas.  

My biggest issue with the dynamic though is just how little we acquired when we traded him out.  The logic Cuban provided was that it was better for us to split the salary into two separate players.  That is the stupidest explanation ever provided for one of the stupidest trades in history.  If that was all Porzingis was worth, then we simply should have kept him and tried to rehab him.  

It's difficult to acquire talented players in the NBA.  Sending off Porzingis for less than nothing and letting Brunson walk were both really powerful examples of organizational failure.  

We're so dependent on two minimum salary players this season because of the Porzingis and Brunson catastrophes.