NoDopeOnSundays wrote:Spree2Houston wrote:Whoever we get has to be substantially better than Randle. Love him or hate him but he’s a 2x All NBA, 25 10 5 player on a good contract. We’ve already seen how good we looked at full strength. It’s why I think we’re better off adding another high end starter like Bridges.
Brunson/McBride
Bridges/Divencenzo
Anunoby/ Hart
Randle/Precious
Robinson/Hartenstein
How many teams could legitimately beat this squad in a 7 game series?
I think it should be pretty obvious by now what this team is going to be moving forward, the person that's replacing Randle is OG. The starting forwards are Hart and OG, they just have more defensive versatility, like Maxey was giving OG a lot of trouble so last game they went with Hart on him and he did the best job so far. They'll look to find the scoring that Randle gives them at SG or C, whoever it is will be a two way player that can score / defend. Like right now with those two as the forwards, if you swapped out Donte (and Randle) for a more efficient SG/SF that could also defend we'd be in the conversation to win the title.
Bridges isn't the answer either.
I don’t even think the team you’re suggesting we build would be any better than the team I suggested lol OG is really 6’6. He can play PF in spurts but not full time. Go ask Raptor fans.
I can’t think of any 2-way SG who can give us what Randle already provides. Booker? He’s going to cost an arm and a leg and I don’t see the huge uptick in wins with him. It feels marginal at best. Embiid at C? Maybe but those knees are done. He has at most 2 good years left in him.
Let’s say we do trade for Booker or Embiid as examples. Let’s see these lineups
Brunson/McBride
Booker/Divencenzo
Hart/
OG
Hartenstein
Or
Brunson
Divencenzo
Hart
OG
Embiid
Vs
Brunson
Bridges
OG
Randle
Hartenstein or Mitch
Team A gets crushed easily lol Team B is nice but will Embiid even be healthy ? Randle has had some freak injuries but he’s been very durable and best ability is availability. I’m not even counting the hit we would take with our bench from those trades.