Guano wrote:Besart19 wrote:if we didnt lose Donte this trade could been a landslide win
The loss of white donte is being overblown. While I get it sucks losing a player you like it will have little to no impact on the teams success.
He's one of the 5 biggest spot up threats in the league and when Randle went out he averaged 21/4/3 on 58 TS% when Randle was out (4.6/12 from deep per night!) and averaged 18 PPG in the playoffs on 56 TS% while maintaining his overall efficiency (his turnovers were down in the playoffs so he had a 120 ORTG in both the playoffs and regular season).
It cannot be understated how much losing Donte brings our offense back. The only players over him in expected points off spot up attempts (which takes efficiency and volume into account to determine how many points the player contributed above the median player) are PG13, Norman Powell, CJ McCollum, and Jalen Brunson.
It really can't be understated how much having 2 of the 5 most dangerous spot up threats carried our offense and made things easy for people and the idea of a 5 out offense with Josh Hart at the 2 instead of Donte is laughable. Maybe we'll have the use Deuce, but last year is by far his best season spotting up can he recreate that?
Also I'll mention this again, Donte scored more PPG against Indy than KAT has ever scored against anybody in the playoffs at 1/5th of his cost. There's a reason Minny wanted him, and it's because when you take contracts into account he's the most valuable player in the deal. Minny has a great squad now.
