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

[mvossman]

Man I hate this argument. Let me ask you this? If THJ is not on the team, do his shot attempts just vanish? The boost given to all our guys in 21-22 when THJ went down for the season was pretty amazing.

There are several players better than Timmy on this team, but they are already playing big minutes.  If Timmy goes, we are replacing his minutes with worse players (like Hardy and Curry).  When one of Luka/Kyrie are not on the court (which has been a lot lately) there are not many guys on this team I would rather have on the court than Timmy.

Speaking of hated arguments, I hate the argument the team got a boost when Timmy went down.  There were so many things going on that year.  The entire team struggled early on shooting (including Timmy).  Bullock was absolutely terrible early on.  Brunson moved to the starting lineup before the Timmy injury, which made a huge change to what this team was.  And then of course the real jump is when they made the KP trade.  None of those things had anything to do with Timmy.