GreekAlex wrote:vege wrote:Snakebites wrote:This is the second consecutive year we’ve dealt Kevin Knox at the deadline (okay, deadline’s tomorrow, close enough).
Let's hope this trade ages better than the last one and Fonttechio does better than Wiseman.
What would you want to see out of Fonttechio to change your mind about this deal?
First I would love to stop seing people butchering his name. It's Fontecchio. 2 CCs not 2 TTs. 2nd Like I said, we have too many guys that can't defend. We need good defenders that can shoot. He is a bad defender.
Cade has been a bad defender despite showing being capable of being a great defender. Ivey is a terrible defender and Duren is not a good defender.
We need those guys to be better defenders, and in order for that to happen we need to surround them with good defenders and good shooters, Orlando and Houston did that, it's not rocket science, but it's something Weaver doesn't understand.
Some clueless people saying Fontecchio is a good defender doesn't change the fact that his advanced metrics are terrible and the games I watched he was bad, possibly because he is playing with terrible defenders like Sexton/Collins/Clarkson but his situation will be the same in Detroit.
So what would make me change my mind? Weaver being fired, a new GM being hired and trading for actually players that can shoot AND DEFEND and him improving his defense to acceptable.
This almost late 1st was our biggest trading chip. Not a lot of teams have 1sts to trade, the ones that have are not buyers. I was expecting/hoping to get an estabilished player for one or 2 of our vets + that 2nd.