BoogieTime wrote:OxAndFox wrote:BoogieTime wrote:
It’s a sellers market. 3 firsts and useful expirings for Siakam is all you need to know. Multiple buyers.
I don’t need it now, but I would still look to sell Barnes/Huerter/Davion to re-up Monk (who has superseded early bird IMO) at this stage and try for the swing next year
That is just throwing away a season of Fox and Sabonis' prime though.
Perhaps you need to do that to take the next leap, but it's extremely difficult to replace guys like Barnes and Huerter.
Honestly, I wouldn't give the Fox and Sabonis duo another year after next. One or both would need to go. Maybe its the following deadline, but there is a timeline on whether or not this squad wins a championship.
Huerter/Barnes have played better recently, but I don’t have them meaningfully impacting wins/losses or certainly playoffs. But that’s how they have played over the course of the year, not recently.
I think we underestimate what they do. Sure we all want them to be better, but switch Barnes out for someone else and we will just complain about something else.
It's good to talk about who we could trade for etc, but at the end of the day, this is a good team for a reason.
They (Barnes & Huerter) are very low on the attempts per game list, but it doesn't take away their gravity. Teams have to stay with them and it helps Fox/Sabonis.
Now if you take these two out for, let's say, defenders. Just for the sake of argument, Thybulle for Huerter and DFS for Barnes you might say, that's great.
But what does it do to the offense? How much room does it give Fox and Sabonis? Because I can guarantee you teams are going to be sagging off both of them despite DFS having a reputation as a decent 3pt shooter, he is not.
Thybulle has improved, but he is still a sub par shooter. Does more pressure on Fox's outside shot help or hinder him?
All of a sudden the Kings improve on the defensive end, but there's no room for Fox to drive, and Sabonis' game is stifled because Thybulle doesn't move on offense and DFS isn't a playmaker and his main role would be to stand in a corner.