loflin3hree5ive wrote:Raps won the title but LAC has a superior five year plan. Raps are at their ceiling now. Clips are flush with future picks, cap flexibility and have a backcourt rotation all locked up on rookie/team friendly deals. Not unlike Toronto LAC has a top-flight FO and coaching staff to maximize that potential. Kawhi seems like a pragmatic person so I think he's coming to the Clippers.
This is such a fallacy.
What backcourt rotation? SGA and Shamet? So Kawhi wants to play with a SGA who has proven nothing and an overrated Shamet?
Neither of those guys are better than Siakam.
Cap flexibility? Lowry, Ibaka and Gasol are all FA next offseason, that's 60 million off the books.
Kawhi can run it back, then there's cap space, a young star in Siakam, and a better player than Shamet in OG, who I don't even put in a discussion because no star player in their prime says I'm excited to wait on two rookies to become stars? And this too Shai who averaged 11-3-2? He could be a star, sure, but to think he's going to be that now is laughable.
People have this bizarre view of reality.
If Kawhi leaves for LAC, it is only because it is LA, it has nothing to do with organization or talent because Toronto trumps them in every facet on that end. Kawhi has already won with this group, has an already budding young star, with a veteran group of star/former stars, a Fred who was one of the best players in the finals who is also young. They run it back and then they have cap space after another run to go get more stars and re-tool.
This Shamet as a key cog discussion is hilarious. SGA is solid but to think he is swaying Kawhi's decision is baffling.