Three firsts and the swaps.
Bucks are going all in on this. If Giannis leaves they've just Billy King'd themselves.
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Interesting deal to say the least. Lots of picks and good veteran presence in return. Not sure the picks will amount to much apart from trade fodder (which is nice to have). We could hit the jackpot though if Giannis takes his talents to South Beach :hihi:
We need Jrue and Giannis to opt out
It?s not about loyalty so much as I don?t think we have finished analyzing him yet. Gentry ball was let?s face it- a disaster of epic proportions. Lonzo to his credit has shown promise in his 3 pointer and he even improved ten percentage points on his FT?s. We may even be able to get more value out of him if he keeps improving in those areas.
For every bit of extra value you get for him on court, you lose value by shrinking the time he gets to spend with his new team. Plus, you always run the risk of regression: what if he starts off the season with 20 games of garbage (which would not be at all surprising) and come January nobody is interested? That's a risk. If you get a decent offer now, you take it imo.
And of course, for all we laud his shooting improvements last season, remember that one of his major selling points is defense and he took a big step back last year defensively.
Miami wanted Jrue. I wonder if they would be interested in Jrue 2.0 (Bledsoe)?
Or Atlanta for that matter?
His 1v1 D was incredible (I still remember him absolutely stonewalling Jokic in the post extensively lol) but it's true that his team D took a step back. Part of that is because team D requires communication and stuff and it was evident that this team just had none of it, but at the same time he was more prone to off-ball lapses than usual.
Being in Milwaukee will probably bring him back on that though, given guys like Giannis and DiVincenzo and Brook Lopez being there. Gives him the team context to return to form.
I'm still not sure if we keep Lonzo to be honest.
Wes Matthews opted out iirc.
In any case, it's not quite the same because Giannis is capable of being a ballhandler somewhat, whereas someone like AD really wasn't. You still don't want Giannis on-ball quite as much as he was last year (he really should be playing more as a roller sometimes) but you can trust him to do that a bit, which takes some pressure off Jrue.
I don't see why we would honestly, unless we're legitimately just getting nothing in the offers for him. He's coming up for his payday that he will inevitably be offered by someone just because hyped up top 3 prospects always are, and he's done essentially nothing to show that he can actually be the starting PG on a functional offense. If someone offers you any value at all, you should be very open to it imo.
I'd bite the bullet and move Lonzo and Redick for picks/players.