OT Should the Grizzlies trade Ja Morant?

I mean, they absolutely won't, because he's their charismatic star, and when you're a small market you cling to stars however flawed they are (what? Just talking about Ja here). But look at how much better they're playing since he went out! It would take an absolute legend of a GM with gonads of steel to trade him. And I wonder what you could get for him? (Zion?)

Basically, he's Iverson II.

 

Having offense minded scoring point guards can be a double edged sword.

 

Will the world notice?

 

I think you mean "inane." Not even I came out of the womb with trade suggestions.

 

irony: somebody hanging out on S2 pining for logic & reality

 

Jaren Jackson in particular seems to do better without Ja, just like Kristaps does better without Luka.

 

here's a suggestion. allow mods an option to revoke thread creation privileges for certain posters.

 

I've got a suggestion for you, too, but I'm too polite to give it.

 

Point guards used to be mostly pass-first types. Then the Derrick Rose era (not sure off hand when it began, maybe LeBron?) of ball-dominant scorers became commonplace. ISO ball is tough to stop when the primary scorer has the ball at all times.

We've reached a point the past few years where the best young players -- the guys that come up in MVP and "who would you pick as a cornerstone?" discussions -- are in that mold, only passing when they can't get a better shot themselves, and they're all surrounded by questions of how to place complimentary talent around them. Obvious examples:

Doncic
Trae Young
Morant
Dame...

Probably CLE/ORL's guys, but I haven't watched them. I might even throw Harden in, although he's a fairly willing passer.

You can build a competitive team around those players, but I'm beginning to think you can't build a winner around them.

 

Hasn't him going out also coincided with Dillon Brooks coming back? At least approximately? Might have taken Brooks a couple games to get warmed up.

 

BTW. did you know Brooks' wingspan is less than his height?

 

Probably the reason he slipped. Same issue with Desmond Bane. Perhaps that became a red flag after Jerryd "T-Rex" Bayless.

 

He came back a bit before then, I thought.

 

Brooks was more due to people projecting him at the wrong position, figuring he was too short to be a PF/SF and not a good enough shooter to be a SG. Just because he played a combo forward role in the Ducks' weird offense, didn't mean that was his natural spot as a pro. But, once those popular sentiments stick, even the trained eyes have a hard time looking past them.

 

My red flag would've been his hair