Originally Posted by
Pelicanidae
Am I the only one who remembers like, the last two years? Including the 2017-18 season where he was a top 10 clutch time scorer in the NBA, and had one of the lowest assisted shot %ages in the league during that time? That is, am I the only one who remember the time when Jrue was one of the league's best offensive players in the 4th?
Now, obviously, Jrue isn't playing that well right now in the 4th. I'm not claiming that he's some magic wizard who has never done anything wrong. But rather than assuming it's just Jrue being terrible, maybe we should consider the context? What has changed about this team that Jrue's on, in comparison to that team that Jrue was on, that may be impacting his play? Just a little something to think about.
Also, I honestly don’t care about 2 years ago. We are a totally different team with a chest of SGs. Jrue also has 1.5 years on his contract and is a max/near max player.
Which is precisely why a team like Denver, which is also relatively young, and which is also lacking tons of extremely good forwards, will be reluctant to trade him. It's already been put out there by Woj that Denver are not planning to move MPJ. If you want him, you will be sending out assets. Forget us getting Harris, MPJ, and a 1st, we'd be sending out Jrue + Someone + a first of our own.
One player cannot be a whole defense. As we are all intimately familiar: those same teams that Jrue was having bad team-defense on, are the same teams that Anthony Davis was having bad team defenses on, and he's been in the top 5 for DPOY twice and will very possibly win it this year. Are we going to pretend that AD's defense wasn't particularly great or impactful or important now too? Come on, you know this.