The idea that we might be able to land Randle with so little outgoing is crazy to me. I'd love it if it happened, but it just doesn't seem viable that they're so desperate to get rid of him that they'd sell him off for even less than we got for CJ.
This year he upped his scoring dramatically to 17 ppg (40% shooting - but he draws a shit-ton of fouls and shoots 84% FTs).
So now he is chucking even more at 40% to get to his 17 ppg. Okay, that's not exactly a good thing. Tremendous defender for sure.
Zero chance Bridges leaves and they piss off Lamelo. It would just speed up the time for lamelos trade request to the Lakers.
That's probably the case but much like Norm only +10M, Randle has a long contract with a bunch of left on it (117M/4 years) and he just had a season where his team and others feel he woefully underperformed. So like Norm and unlike CJ they might move off of Randle for very little, almost 100M in cap savings and moving up 5 or 6 spots in the lottery, again if they really like the guy who is available. You're right though, they'd probably want more than that but I don't think I'd want to give them more than that. I like Randle a lot and think he can regain the form he had over a season ago but you're betting ~28M in cap space every season for the next four seasons that he'll be what he was or better than he was in 2020-21 and not what he just was this last season.
You get him for his defense. The fact that he can score is a bonus. And while his TS% is certainly not great, it's better than all of these guys:
You take the worst season Beal has had in like 6 years, and don't is a whopping .002 ahead of him in his best year. Cool. That provides nothing of substance.
If our big plan is Jerami Grant I’d rather just use the Pels pick on Sochan, trade our pick, gain asset(s) and draft Eason. Hope Eason / Sochan battle it out in camp and emerge with 1/2 decent big athletic dudes who actually play defense and just maybe… they both work out and you’ve got Eason a 3/4 and Sochan a 4/5. Then use assets and free agency (lol) and unbalanced trades on just getting the best talent at the 3/4/5 spots
It's all just castles in the clouds, but if even the Knicks can see that a player in the 6-8 range is more valuable than Randle, maybe we should listen!
Not particularly high on Randle but he's a player that might thrive in Portland because he wouldn't draw nearly the defensive attention with Dame, Ant and Nurk on the court as he attracts with the Knicks. He'd have a lot of open space and I think he could shoot a much higher percentage. He also strikes me as a loose cannon, though.
Agree. Big difference between being the primary scoring option versus, likely, a third option in Portland.
I’d be a little concerned about the fit with Nurkic and Randle, but that’s a trade I’d probably do. Unless Sharpe is there, not sure there’s any reason to stay that high if you get a former all star and just move back a few spots, even for Griffin or Mathurin imo. I’d consider doing that trade and drafting both Eason and Sochan. _____/Little/Sochan Randle/Eason/Watford/Brown III and you’d still have the TPE to make something happen at starting SF. Dame/Dunn Simons/Hart/Johnson set at guards. You can bring back Dunn as a third playmaker who plays spot minutes for the min and run Ant at backup PG. If you sign Jalen Smith with the MLE and draft a C at 36, that’s a complete team. Nurkic/Smith/#36 If Sharpe is available to us, I’d have to think about it a little harder. But I still think I’d do it.
Bobby Portis. After him, I guess I would like Portis. If we couldn't get him, I would settle for Bobby Portis, and if all else fails, I would be interested in Bobby Portis. (Jerami Grant just does NOT do anything for me..I think he would be a massive mistake, no real educated reasons why, just think he is overrated)
