Guidus88 wrote:Klomp wrote:jpatrick wrote:We may trade KAT but it won’t be for a player like Randle. It’ll be for a younger PF that can shoot and grow on the ANT timeline and hopefully a bit more.
Randle is a mediocre, expensive, and not on ANT’s timeline. But most importantly, he’s a poor shooter (outside one outlier season). Unless we’re moving Rudy too, the PF has to at least shooter upside.
If ANT has to try to drive into the paint with both Randle’s and Rudy’s (and maybe McDaniel’s if he doesn’t improve) guys just standing there, he will ask out sooner than any of us think.
I think a trade would likely bring us someone younger, but it might not be a power forward as Towns' direct replacement. It's all about where the value in each offer comes through.
I don't think this trade concept would work without a third team, but one guy who I think would provide us a Target-value Towns could be Jerami Grant. I know everyone talks about him valuing individual role/shots over team success, but that was when he was essentially in a Naz Reid role off the bench for Denver. A lot of people expected Reid to do the same thing, so I'm not sure he should be faulted for that when it's essentially human nature.
Who are you thinking about? Evan Mobley?
He'd be perfect.
But Cleveland would laugh and hang up on us...
