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

[omahen]

I wouldn’t go there.  The lineups where Green plays without THJ work very well.  Between Luka, Kyrie, Exum and Green you have something to build on in the back court.

The things that have to be fixed (mainly defensively) are the non-Lively minutes, most of the THJ minutes and most of the GWill minutes.  82games breaks down O-Rating/D-Rating by position played and also lets you look at the top 20 lineups to see who is in with a player when they play those positions.  It is really hard to find THJ lineups that play any D.  It is really really bad.  He’s one of five guys, so it isn’t all on him, but you can at least find lineups that work with the other guys.

If you could shore up the non-Lively minutes with this deal and shed THJ for just about anything useful, you dramatically improve the D and dramatically improve our prospects.  The core that works is Luka, Kyrie, Green, Exum, DJJ, Lively and (Non-Lively minutes filler) and (THJ Replacement).  You’d like OMax to eventually join that group.  To me, everyone else is fair game.  I wonder if putting GWill in a deal instead of either Maxi or Holmes does anything for Atlanta.

GW is certainly a better contract then Maxi or Holmes, but Mavs would be left with DJJ as their only PF after the trade. And he is very small for the position. They would have a really hard time against any big team and any team with a very good PF. There are plenty of those in the West.

GW doesn't look like a long term solution and I wouldn't mind moving him, but only if another PF comes back