Osirus89 wrote:Kizz Fastfists wrote: It also makes it possible to make up from an off night from one of your stars because you have a lot of guys capable of picking up the slack. Who picks up the slack for OKC when Russ has a bad night?
I think this proves the overall point some of us have been making in regards to players like Kanter and Oladipo. We know that Adams, Victor, and Kanter can't pick up the slack on the offensive end. We have seen an entire season of it. Losing some combination of them doesn't matter since none of them are true difference makers. We have one difference maker in Russ. That is where it stops. Moving some combination, hell... even all three of them if you were able to build a team that makes sense would be better than what we currently have. Now, we don't know what will be out there when the offseason is underway, but this team should be open to any and everything.
I don't care what Presti says, Adams should be the last person on this team that is untouchable. I'm pretty down on Kanter and would basically give him away just to be rid of him, but Presti probably wants a decent return for him. Good luck with that given how flawed he is.
The fact that Javale , David west, and Zaza pachulia are having the success they are having just drives home the point that unless you are paying an elite big man like Anthony Davis, KP, or Towns, we don't need to spend the absurd amount of money we are spending on big men. Especially when they are producing at a similar or even lower level than guys that make far less money than them. They could give Kanter away for a rotation level player and like 1-2 2nd rounders and I wouldn't protest at all .
To your point, Davis, KP and Towns also have completely different style of game than Adams. Even if Adams played to the potential we had hoped, he wouldn't match up well with those guys, especially KP and Davis.
