payitforward wrote:gambitx777 wrote:I guess the way im looking at it is for melo or aldridge im not saying trade otto for them, or kelley. im saying, If your moving mahinmi for them, and keeping your core guys, they make your team better...
That's the problem, gambit. They don't.
At least Aldridge saves you a year of salary going forward. Well, Melo does too -- but you pay the same amount over a shorter term. & he really does put you in the tax territory.
But Mahinmi, if healthy, is a more productive player than either of those guys at this point in their careers.
Is he really though? What can mahinmi really give us that a vet min contract or a cheap short term flyer given to say Larry saunders, jeff withey, joffery loverange, Donatas Motiejunas, Tiago Splitter or Jan vesley can't give us? Like Mahinmi does not give us enough to justify that deal, and if you can get that off the books, add something you can use (melos scoring off the bench or aldridge in the starting line up and the subsiquent bench boost from benching either gortat or morris) and replace mahinmis poor health and minimal production with a vet min contract or short term flyer you do it and move on from the mistake. Aron Baynes would probably be cheaper.
I guess mind set of fixing this mistake, even if is just gets you an inch north of a lateral move in any kind of way, is better than keeping that mistake around.
