bwgood77 wrote:Yeah, Mitchell has the bigger positive impact due to the defense. Booker is such a negative on that end it almost wipes out the offense (actually they were slighly worse with him on the court this year per b-ref's on/off). Mitchell isn't as good offensively, not as good from 3 but better inside the arc.
Yeah. I said after SL before the year started that I would - on a merely technical basis, set apart from realities - trade Booker for Mitchell.
Doesn't matter. Book's a Phoenix Sun and a special player. You can a win a championship with Book as your leading scorer. And he's ready to start getting opportunities to prove it.
But Mitchell's success this year also had a lot to do with Gobert, Joe Ingles and Ricky Rubio. Burke and Favors, too. All those guys (with the exception of Gobert) were underestimated by the L - and with good reason, it seemed. That's why I'm hesitant to trade Knight, Warren, Chriss and Dragan - each of these guys could be significantly better next season, or the year after.
I'm more inclined to look into combining that #16 with one of Chandler or Dudley and seeing if we can't get a decent player in return - a la Ricky Rubio, last year. I wouldn't be opposed to attaching our own protected first and attaching that to the other of Chandler and Dudley in order to get another quality player, either.
THEN adding a high $$$ RFA/UFA with the cash you've retained. Gordon? Randle? Smart? VanVleet? We could offer it to Capela, but the Rockets would match.
The hard part is finding contracts that you could fairly easily extend or that are of any decent length as to be useful. But I'd call up basically all the EC playoff teams and CHA to see what their price is for their rotation PGs and make the best deal there. Maybe ORL would send us Augustin for cheap; same for IND/Joseph or TOR/Wright?
Overall, there seem to be more PG options than good C options...
[This probably belongs in the draft thread:]
That's the ultimate appeal of Jaren Jackson - Horford's versatility has made him the second most valuable player in the EC playoff race. Jaren Jackson could very well be able to replicate what Al brings. Similarly, Bamba's appealing because of the success of Gobert. If Embiid got 1.0 PPP on his post-ups in this PO series with Boston, would he be having a positive impact overall? I ask because gambling on Ayton's learning curve on defense gives me the willies.
I worry about Young in part because defensively, Booker's actually shown more success guarding 1's than 2's, because of his quick feet and short wingspan. He just needs good help defense because his wide body gets caught on screens. He needs to learn when and when not be physical on defense - he struggles with that. But if the best solution for us defensively is to rotate Jackson and Booker on 1's, Young cripples you there - Doncic would not.
1. Doncic
2. Jackson Jr.
I suppose in either case, I would try to add a quality veteran C, like Favors, Valanciunas, Dedmon, B Lopez or Adams. Not a long list of true possibilities.
....... That TOR roster is a buffet of appealing trade candidates.
