Markcannon is young enough to keep, so if Ainge goes the other way (getting what he can for the other pieces), I’d be behind that. Where he is now, though, if I were a Jazz fan, would drive me crazy.

Trading Mitchell and/or Gobert was necessary, though, because they hated each other. Seems to me he could have kept one and had a good team, but maybe the Gobert offer was just too good to pass up and he changed direction. But then he needed to keep going.

You could argue that all those guys are so gifted that they should be genii at what they do, but counterpoint: JR Smith.

The best example is 2022, when had one of the great offensive seasons of all time, then had a postseason that made playoff Julius Randle look like Michael Jordan.

Maybe he turns it around this year, but his strike zone ain’t getting any smaller. If I were a Yankees fan, I’d vastly prefer to have Soto up in a big spot in the playoffs.

And true, the Yanks have made it to the postseason way more than the Mets, or any other team for that matter. I also concede that with Judge in the regular season lineup instead of Alonso, we’d probably have been there a bit more often. But being that it’s only Steve Cohen’s 4th season, I like out chances to go toe-to-toe with them going forward.

If he played for the Mets he wouldn’t have poor postseason numbers since he’d never play in October…

His pretty large sample of postseason numbers would beg to differ…