Fairview4Life wrote:Scase wrote:Imagine thinking Siakam and Dame would be a contender like some people were saying lmao.
Reconsidering this one? I didn't want to trade Scottie for him, but both he and Pascal are playing well in the playoffs and adding in OG and Poeltl's defense, it's not something I think "lmao" really applies to. Dame still solves a whole lot of issues with last season's team - namely Fred missing 3's. If Portland for some reason took our Dick/GTJ/Pick offer for Dame or whatever clown offer we made...that's a good looking starting lineup - Dame/Scottie/OG/Pascal/Yak. We can hide Dame on D with that crew and even though he'd be our only real shooting threat...that's a pretty good shooting threat.
Until OG misses his annual 20 games and we're playing McDaniels heavy minutes. We'd have likely been playing Flynn a lot due to our depleted bench and we all saw how that went.
Another thing to consider is that if that team doesn't make the ECF, Masai isn't going to get approval to go into the tax, which they would have needed to do. By my count, that's a 170M starting lineup next season with a huge Scottie extension looming, and no bench.
And that's while ignoring the fact that Dame wanted no part of Toronto.