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GiggitySmalls wrote:The mental gymnastics some use to justify LaMelo's pressence on this team are pretty impressive. Ill admitt...it is indeed impressive....sheesh.
But you could dumo melo and his contract take on smaller deals that are up sooner and move forward to bringing in talented point guard. Then you can see what we look like with s point guard on the floor with the roster. Because we can't do that with melo with any sort of consistency. If we had a good pg who played 75 games a year who wasn't melo, id be willing to bet the team woild look alot better. So basically dumping melo frees up a position on the roster to target and fill with talent, and pg is arguably the most important position in basketball. You gotta run the team. It starts with who you're running it with at the 1.wilson115 wrote:GiggitySmalls wrote:The mental gymnastics some use to justify LaMelo's pressence on this team are pretty impressive. Ill admitt...it is indeed impressive....sheesh.
Trouble's they're getting pennies on the dollar if they look for a trade right now. Best way to rehab his value's putting a better team around him and FO's got a chance to do that on the cheap with two FRPs in a deep draft. Real reason to doubt they rush into anything until then regardless of our opinions on LaMelo.
wilson115 wrote:GiggitySmalls wrote:The mental gymnastics some use to justify LaMelo's pressence on this team are pretty impressive. Ill admitt...it is indeed impressive....sheesh.
Trouble's they're getting pennies on the dollar if they look for a trade right now. Best way to rehab his value's putting a better team around him and FO's got a chance to do that on the cheap with two FRPs in a deep draft. Real reason to doubt they rush into anything until then regardless of our opinions on LaMelo.
Duke4life831 wrote:wilson115 wrote:GiggitySmalls wrote:The mental gymnastics some use to justify LaMelo's pressence on this team are pretty impressive. Ill admitt...it is indeed impressive....sheesh.
Trouble's they're getting pennies on the dollar if they look for a trade right now. Best way to rehab his value's putting a better team around him and FO's got a chance to do that on the cheap with two FRPs in a deep draft. Real reason to doubt they rush into anything until then regardless of our opinions on LaMelo.
Outsider looking in, I come in peace haha. Watched all your games this year so far because of Kon and Sion.
The issue with the “they’re getting pennies on the dollar if they trade him right now” view is, it can easily get to the point where you’re not even getting pennies in return, you have to give up pennies to get rid of him.
As someone who used to root hard for Zion, I saw the “no you can’t trade him right now while his value is this low” for years with the Pelicans. And with each year that value just continued to drop. Same goes for Memphis and Morant.
At some point you might just have to rip the bandaid off and just go full on with a rebuild. This past draft class plus another good draft can be the perfect time to do just that.
I like the band-aid analogy. Take it off let the wound breath and heal organically in the sunlight, and do a proper rebuild. It's quite simply not a question of should he be dealt, but the realization of he absolutely must be dealt. Cut and dry, no if's, and's, or but's.Duke4life831 wrote:wilson115 wrote:GiggitySmalls wrote:The mental gymnastics some use to justify LaMelo's pressence on this team are pretty impressive. Ill admitt...it is indeed impressive....sheesh.
Trouble's they're getting pennies on the dollar if they look for a trade right now. Best way to rehab his value's putting a better team around him and FO's got a chance to do that on the cheap with two FRPs in a deep draft. Real reason to doubt they rush into anything until then regardless of our opinions on LaMelo.
Outsider looking in, I come in peace haha. Watched all your games this year so far because of Kon and Sion.
The issue with the “they’re getting pennies on the dollar if they trade him right now” view is, it can easily get to the point where you’re not even getting pennies in return, you have to give up pennies to get rid of him.
As someone who used to root hard for Zion, I saw the “no you can’t trade him right now while his value is this low” for years with the Pelicans. And with each year that value just continued to drop. Same goes for Memphis and Morant.
At some point you might just have to rip the bandaid off and just go full on with a rebuild. This past draft class plus another good draft can be the perfect time to do just that.
GiggitySmalls wrote:I like the band-aid analogy. Take it off let the wound breath and heal organically in the sunlight, and do a proper rebuild. It's quite simply not a question of should he be dealt, but the realization of he absolutely must be dealt. Cut and dry, no if's, and's, or but's.Duke4life831 wrote:wilson115 wrote:Trouble's they're getting pennies on the dollar if they look for a trade right now. Best way to rehab his value's putting a better team around him and FO's got a chance to do that on the cheap with two FRPs in a deep draft. Real reason to doubt they rush into anything until then regardless of our opinions on LaMelo.
Outsider looking in, I come in peace haha. Watched all your games this year so far because of Kon and Sion.
The issue with the “they’re getting pennies on the dollar if they trade him right now” view is, it can easily get to the point where you’re not even getting pennies in return, you have to give up pennies to get rid of him.
As someone who used to root hard for Zion, I saw the “no you can’t trade him right now while his value is this low” for years with the Pelicans. And with each year that value just continued to drop. Same goes for Memphis and Morant.
At some point you might just have to rip the bandaid off and just go full on with a rebuild. This past draft class plus another good draft can be the perfect time to do just that.
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Ok so we are in year 4 of melo missing games and getting injured. But yeah lets get him to 55 games, which awful availability. Cuz he would almost have to play every game with the games hes gonna miss after his newest injury to hit 65, and that won't happen. But hey if he doesn't get there run it back next year when hes injured again for 5 straight year. Such an awful take.JMAC3 wrote:We should trade him if every time he has a minor injury or a bad game people throw a tantrum.
If the new norm is that he can't get injured and miss anytime moving forward then yes trade him because that is an unrealistic way to view this.
There is no world where LaMelo plays 82 games for the next 3 years, so again if that is the expectation then be mad I guess.
He has played in 16/24 games this year so far.
That is more than Trae Young, Jrue, Morant, Castle, Fox, Jalen Williams, Nembhard, Garland, Coby White, Wemby, Kawhi, Herro, Zion, Cam Thomas, Mathurin, Banchero, AD, Porzingis, Sarr, Embiid, Jordan Poole, Sabonis, Keegan Murray, LeBron, Anunoby, Jalen Green, Nesmith, Tobias Harris, Kessler, Jarrett Allen, Paul George, Zach Edey, Dylan Harper, Tari Eason, Christian Braun, Daniel Gafford and Jaden Ivey.
That is at least 37 other starters in the NBA that have missed more time than he has.
A. he isn't the only NBA starter to miss games this year as I continue to point out.
B. He has missed 8 games and people are freaking out.
I know the argument is going to be this isn't the first time LaMelo has been hurt, and I get that. Which comes back to my initial point, if the new expectation is he can't miss any more time at all then yes trade him because that isn't realistic.
To me this is more about getting him to 55-65 games played this year and building upon that moving forward. Not overreacting to him missing a game here or there.
