Laimbeer wrote:This thread is amazing. We've moved from acceptance back to denial because we shuffled some seconds, moved our best offensive player, and picked up a couple edge-of-the rotation players.
Grimes was a middle-of-the-pack starter SG on a playoff team last year statistically. We’ll see if he can get back to that, but he has shown it. It’s not like a pure potential bid like Wiseman was (and hopefully weaver learned from). Fontecchio started on an Utah team that was around .500 for their best stretch of ball. A lot of playoff teams wanted him.
And most importantly, Burks and Bojan are at the ends of their careers with Burks a threat to walk in the summer. Time to move on. You aren’t going to get a 25 year old Bojan in return for 35 year old Bojan straight up. But you’ll get guys that fit the timeline, can play both sides, and are under team control.
There are a ton of ways this deadline could have been a total disaster. Taking some horrendous Lavine contract, or dumping a bunch of young guys in a panic move. Selling on the old vets who have contributed to like 5 wins on this team for rookie-scale longer term pieces with team control is not one of them.