hugepatsfan wrote:I disagree that he's a system player. He's an elite shooter with great wing size who isn't a sieve defensively. If your system can't work with that then you need a new system. I think pretty much any contending team would rather have him than a pick in the 20s, provided that the contract fts into their payroll/luxury tax structure. The problem is that for a lot of contenders, they're already maxed out on salary so they'd have to send money back and then you get into whether they have a player in that salary range to send back that isn't contributing to their team in another role.
If every team in the NBA were granted a TPE to fit his salary and didn't have to pay tax on it then BOS would get a 1st rounder easily IMO. But that's not reality and when you factor that market condition in his value simply goes down since you weed out teams to drive the price up.
The shooting is pretty transferable. Agree with the idea if you can’t fit his shooting in your system, then you need to change the system.
The defensive ability is the question, and what seems like it might be more attributable to the Boston roster and system than Hauser in particular. He’s “not a sieve” in Boston playing in lineups with Jrue, White, Brown, Horford, Tatum, etc.
That, to me, is the question. If he goes elsewhere and isn’t playing with multiple “all-defensive team” caliber players that can help cover for him, will his true ability tahini through, and is it possibly worse than imagined at this point? A 4 year commitment could be a little scary to some in that regard, if the receiving team doesn’t have any, let alone multiple, GREAT defenders on the roster.
If my team had no cap space aspirations in the near future, I’d rate him as “useful filler in a larger deal”, or positive to the point of a 2-3 seconds, maybe a top 20 protected first if I got to move some unwanted salary? It’s uus
