JayMKE wrote:"Right to move on" only works as justification if you move on to better things, we got the fool's gold by getting Dame for less than we expected but he has not been a good fit & this team looks further from contention than it did last year or the year before that. Portlant was "right to move on" from Dame, now we're holding the bag
I don't have any loyalty to the guy because he played in Portland for 10 years, idgaf who cares
soft no D scoring PGs aren't winning players, especially when they need to pound the ball to be effective
except he's always won until they tanked last two years.
Several bad D scoring PGs have won and gone to final fours. Top of my head Curry, Kyrie, Murray, Harden, Dame, Young, Nash, Parker. Think Mitchell has only one round of playoffs several times, but not made wcf. I guess you have no interest in acquiring Halliburton or Luca in the future too.
The rules have made on ball pg D almost impossible. You have to work out a team system behind and yea a guy like Dame if he wants to get over the hump has to put in more attention than he's been now that he doesn't have the O burden like in the past. But 5 games with new coach and eye test that has been there by him and all. Games have gotten back to normalcy so far rather than all star game feels. Hopefully they add a good defender of some kind and then they all keep improving together, get smoother on O and then they have a chance in playoffs.
But yea, it was right to move on from Jrue. There was no guarantee this would win a championship and we knew going it was to give up D for O since O is what killed them in the playoffs every year. It was possible he'd get hurt and it be a disaster, he's not young, contract is big, it was the risk but it was a no brainer trade you had to do especially for how little they gave up. There is some alternate timelines of acquiring scorer types a tier below (sexton types) that should not have required Jrue/KM in the trades that would've been interesting. But I'd rather go this route than be on the hook for Jrue at 40 mil per year til he's like 38.