vvoland wrote:superunknown wrote:yes right, let's package our best perimeter defender (one of the best in the league) to keep a washed guy who cannot defend anymore to save his life, even at a discount rate.
if the goal is to keep competing you try to improve the roster not to weaken it. so unless you can get a wing who can defend, rebound and give you 16-17 points per game you don't trade wiggins.
klay needs to walk. the only scenario he can stay is he accepts a huuge paycut (MLE exception) and a reduce role as a gunner from the bench (15 mins max a game). and ofc kerr plays him 15 mins max a game. otherwise he needs to walk. he (and kerr) has damaged this squad enough in the last 2 seasons.
also, if the goal is to maximize curry's last seasons, you try to package paul' contract + picks + youngsters (including podz) to get a star player. you let him walk only if there is no meaningful trade available in july.
green must be given an ultimatum: another incident like the gobert/nurkic one and he is traded at the first available opportunity. enough with his antics, they have damaged this squad enough too.
trade GPII, he's hardly available for a reason or another one, enough with this too.
sign & trade kuminga if there is a good trade available. otherwise you sign him and keep him until that trade becomes available hoping he keeps improving.
If that was the andrew wiggins we got the last two seasons, we would have been a much better team than we were. If we got that wiggins this season, we'd be much higher than 10th. For all the hand-wringing about Klay's shooting and declining defense, it's the two way wing that's in the prime of his career that hasn't shown up for this team. I've heard the entire board claim Moody should take Klay's minutes but I think it's Wigs's minutes that he should have taken this year. Outside of a few weeks around the trade deadline and then again in Mar, Wigs was AWOL the entire season, when we could least afford it.
it's amusing this pointing the finger at wiggins for "not showing up" when klay and dray have been more detrimental to the team than him in the last 2 seasons with their behaviours.
klay has been way more unprofessional than wiggins with his attitude inside and outside the court. he might have "shown up" but how? with his constant pouting and his putting his ego before the team best interest? with his non-existent D and his frequent giving up on plays? as pointed out by some posters on this board, if he was left at home the team most likely finished with a better record.
dray's been even a more locker room cancer (to quote an expression used in another thread in reference to poole), he played a main role in sabotaging last season with the punch and this season he left the team in the shite for way more games than wiggings due to his antics and unsportmanslike behaviours, which is far more aggravating than a guy missing time (how many games? 5 in total? dray missed 20 games) due to family matters. and his making himself AWOL for a quarter of the season, in the end, is what cost the dubs the access to the playoff.
but these 2 don't get the same level of scrutiny than wiggins when it comes to behaviour, rather get a pass because of their past, although in the last championship (in 2022, not 2015 or 2018) wiggins was more instrumental in winning the chip than klay and dray. but again, the past doesn't count for him. only for klay and dray.
and btw, wiggins is the same guy who was on the floor playng with a broken rib last year in the coference sefiminals, what a lousy and impudent teammate.