The idea that we shouldn’t have spent 93 million on our FAs is equally moot. We needed a team last year. No one knew Rose and Noel would miss the season. Burks was actually a hero in stepping in at starting PG. (Maybe Kemba was a true mistake)

If Rose and Noel play, maybe we’re 45-37 as opposed to what happened. Now we have a true ambidextrous PG coming aboard. What Kemba was supposed to do, maybe now happens with Jalen.

I still like Julius. I’d be willing to roll with him in less of a play makers roll. Fewer assists, fewer TO’s, fewer long twos. But I think he’s probably going to be part of the next move.

Very different if equally hellish experiences. With Melo it was five seconds of hair-pulling, “Just do something! Anything! NO, not that!” With Randle it was like being strapped into a really horrible rollercoaster in slow motion where you knew the track was broken on the loop part but you can’t get out or stop it.

Seems Mitch got full value. Maybe not much surplus but I am very happy if he is back.

I think Brunson may have trouble adjusting to playing on the slowest paced team in the NBA and having to share the ball with RJ and Randle. He is good enough to make it work but I think the transition could be a bit fraught.

I could get behind a starting lineup of Brunson, Grimes, RJ, Obi, and Mitch. Even if Fournier is in there for Grimes it would be semi-fun.

If we sign Brunson I think Fournier becomes one of the most important players on the team. I don’t know the exact numbers but Kevin Pelton said:

“Brunson benefited from the shooting the Mavericks put around him. A majority of his minutes in the regular season came with four capable 3-point shooters spacing the floor, a luxury Brunson won’t enjoy if he signs with the spacing-challenged New York Knicks..

I think Brunson and Fournier is our best possible backcourt, and RJ is going to have to find his stroke again to hold off Grimes.

My disdain is for the logic, not for you. A GM’s quote about his own trade is not evidence of anything.

We had a good pick and now we have nothing of nothing of value. I find this to be self evident and I believe a high degree of wilfulness is required to continue arguing otherwise.

Hubert:
I don’t think a quote from a GM trying to sell a bad trade to a disgruntled fanbase is valid proof that a pick is valuable.

And even if it did have value, it’s to Atlanta, not us. The New York Knicks had the 19th pick in the draft and they turned it into Cam Reddish, who they are actively trying to unload for free.

We may not have literally set it on fire, but we literally reduced the value of that pick to zero.

You’re getting into “the sky is actually not blue” territory with this pick.

It’s impossible to have a rational argument with you woithout condescention or smugness so I won’t bother to respond.

DRed:
Looks like we’re going to give mitch 4/60

That’s quite a bit. I hope he’s worth it.

And even if it did have value, it’s to Atlanta, not us. The New York Knicks had the 19th pick in the draft and they turned it into Cam Reddish, who they are actively trying to unload for free.

We may not have literally set it on fire, but we literally reduced the value of it to zero, and you’re in Kyrie Irving levels of denial about it.