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

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I am an analytics guy, but part of that involves looking at as large a sample as I can and looking at context.

Thats why I'm not going to overweight half of a disgruntled season vs the rest of his career.

Before this season he was a good young player with potential to get better.  He is still only 25.  

He shoots nearly 40% from 3 when wide open, but gets less of those shots than most of our players.  Luka effect.

I really think he will benefit defensively playing next to a legit center, instead of having to play that role himself.

I think its way to early to call PJ a bad player.  There was some risk in the trade, but it sounds like they were having issues with GWill in the locker room as well as on the court and he needed to go.

I really hope you're right as I would like to be wrong about PJ Washington.  

Part of the rationale for the Grant Williams trade was because we needed a vocal leader in the locker room.  Apparently though, he just annoyed everyone and they wanted him gone.  Still, one of the league's best franchises was able to tolerate Grant for four years and he was a significant part of their franchise.  I think this speaks very poorly to our locker room rather than Grant.  

Part of the group hope is that PJ Washington wasn't trying his hardest because he was on a bad team.  The hope is that he'll try harder on a better team.  I think it's disturbing that a guy making $16 million was disgruntled.  Although the Mavericks are a better team, maybe he'll now be disgruntled because he'll have less opportunity to score?  

As a comparison, Gafford was also on a terrible team.  Yet he has been really good this season and always plays with intensity.  That's why the Gafford trade is a big positive for us.  The PJ Washington deal is us gambling at low odds.  

We're a more talented roster than we were 2 days ago.  However, we gave up significant assets that we can no longer use this coming summer.  That matters.  

The Dinwiddie situation is exciting though.  Signing him for the rest of the season would change my grade on this trade deadline.  Currently, I'm giving the Mavericks a B based on the two deals we made.  

Signing Dinwiddie would give us an A-