With Nas back and Payton finally playing... we have too many players! Presumably Winslow will be coming back soon. Who's going to feel the pinch? Sharpe? Walker? Walker should be okay until Winslow comes back, because we're actually short on tall players if you get what I mean. Suggest your consolidation trades now (but please, not John Collins).
Hmmm a minutes crunch and no depth with size... I think there's about to be a trade. Only about four weeks until the deadline and despite these last two games this roster still doesn't make sense.
Every team has 15 players. If we “consolidate,” we’ll still need to add players. We don’t have too many. Best players play. It’s easy.
Solution: get seasoned vets who never complain when they don't get to play but are great guys, and also fill our greatest positions of need:
There are a lot of guys out there who would add size to this team. Who we trade is hard to say. That's why Joe gets the big bucks and I have to pay to see the team in one way or another.
Right but there is serious lack of depth in the post and a numbers crunch on the perimeter. We could "consolidate" or we could trade one of our really good perimeter players for some more size that has mobility.
We have not been healthy all year, why would we want to consolidate? Glad Chauncey gave Walker a chance but once Winslow comes back... Walker can sit.
We don't need to consolidate but we do need some additional size that can move and we don't need as many really solid perimeter players as we have when we have no depth with size. Dame, Ant, GP2, Hart, Nas, Shae and Justise are all 6'6" and under... that's under the average size of a player in the league. That's seven of the nine guys that should be in our rotation. This roster doesn't make sense and does need a trade or trades to be made in order to make sense. Two good games don't change that... all of our good wins don't change our bad losses. We have enough good players. We do not have enough size and our best players don't all complement each other or really fit the philosophies Chauncey wants to push. We need to make moves, it's incredibly obvious. It isn't obvious what moves we need to make. Joe has some work to do over the next four weeks and two days and I think he's shown he's not afraid to make a move.
Hart gives you a good trade chip, especially with GPII back. Don’t fall in love and get too attached.
No argument we need another quality big, but it actually hasn't been 2 games, it has been zero games where they have all played together. On paper, I agree with you, but I would like to see them play about 5 games together.
Agreed. Get Dame and Simons down to 32 (30 in blowouts, 34 in close games). Get Grant down to 30, Hart to 28. Those guys take a beating. Justise, Nas, and Gary could each still get 20 if you cut our Walker and cut Sharpe down to 12. The way they play (physical, fouls, crashing boards, shouldn’t get over 20 anyway)
