MGB8 wrote:I’m not worried about the TS. Like I wrote, the biggest hit was an awful year from the line (over 7% worse than career average). Also, it was another year where he had a lot of time playing without a true point (Barnes isn’t good at it). Even when he was playing without a point or quasi point (not a believer in Mitchell), he had a number of lineups where he was the default “4” (Mitchell/IQ-Agbaji-Dick-RJ-Poetl) - and per 82 games, those were when his game suffered the most.
You aren't worried about the efficiency of a volume scorer whom is 5% below the league average for his career, and not sure he's hit league average even once (he was certainly right about average in 23/24 at 58%). I feel like that's a thing you should be worried about.
It’s a gamble, sure. But there is enough there in terms of skillset and production to make it a reasonable gamble - that playing with a PG, not playing the default “4” where he is very undersized will return his numbers to what was seen after he arrived in TO (with IQ healthy to start), possibly improve from there (youth / trajectory / better fit).
I don't see much of a case that this is a reasonable gamble. Part of that would be based on agreeing to how good he is now. I'd say he is a negative asset today and is paid more than his value. I'd also say given the total number of minutes he has played that more than iterative improvements forward are unlikely. I don't think he's an iterative improvement away from being a valuable player on his deal.
If you are dumping Patrick / Carter for him and we're doing a trash for trash trade, sure. He's not a guy I'd give up a draft pick for, especially considering the broader context of this team and its position.