ciueli wrote:PushDaRock wrote:ciueli wrote:
Dude, we can’t trade Barrett, we tried including him in the Ingram trade and New Orleans didn’t want him. We tried to get rid of him at the deadline and couldn’t, tried to trade him in the offseason and couldn’t. Do you think his value is increasing when the whole league sees how bad this team is on defence with our other poor defenders next to him?
Again, if RJ sucks so much and Ochai can't play in front of him, what does that say about him?
You don’t seem to understand that a player making nearly $30M/year isn’t going to be used as a bench player. The NBA doesn’t work that way. The point is that all this money to underperforming players costs us the ability to keep other talent. It’s not difficult to understand.
No, I think a player that is actually "good" is going to play in front of someone that is supposedly untradeable.
You see guys like Bradley Beal making 50m and getting benched, so it's nonsense to suggest RJ couldn't be benched if Ochai was actually good enough to replace him.