“Most Likely You Go Your Way And I’ll Go Mine” is a banger

I curse Dave Gebroe’s stupid ass face for two things: 1) breaking up the discograffiti dream team, and 2) saying Before the Flood is better than the Last Waltz. But I have to acknowledge Gebroe got one thing right: BtF has a great version of You Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine. It really does bang.

But before that trade was made, I was fully prepared to go into the season with Mitch (at the time he was projected to be back by December) and whoever Leon could trade for with our remaining assets, including our draft haul, our protected firsts, and our cache seconds. Maybe Deuce would have to be put into a deal, or even DDV, which would have sucked but definitely not a crippling blow. And I would have been shocked (and therefore don’t believe for a second) that the season was destined to be over by January 1 without terrible injury luck. Maybe we’d be less of a “contender” in theory, but being that we’re staring at a second-round match-up with the Celts, I don’t see the point in proclaiming that this team is light years ahead of where it would have been without that trade, at least for this season.

Now we are definitely better positioned for the future, as Randle was due for an extension, but that’s not what we’re discussing here.

But I tell you what, after we beat the Celts in the second round on the back of an all-NBA performance by KAT, I’ll be overjoyed to be in full agreement with this statement.

In January, Nick Richards and a second was traded for Josh Okogie and two seconds.

Meanwhile the Lakers were not expecting to be trading for a C until the Gift from Heaven fell into their laps at the 11th hour. Totally different situation than Leon was in before the season started. They tried to pull a Mikal Bridges-style overpay at the last minute but it didn’t work.

The most dubious assumption here is that Leon wouldn’t have found some sort of reasonable replacement for iHart.

I find that to be reasonable, actually. There just weren’t many available. None of the other teams desperate for centers were able to get help. Look at the cost of Mark Williams before the trade was rescinded. We didn’t have that kind of ammo.

Sure, but why would you do that? Those two guys had great chemistry here, only to be blindsided by the trade. Randle came back at full health and has been adapting to a much different role, and DDV was banged up and got off to a bad start but was shooting much better before he got hurt again.

The most dubious assumption here is that Leon wouldn’t have found some sort of reasonable replacement for iHart.

Then you are running out a starting lineup of (pencil in C) Randle, OG, Mikal, and Brunson, with Hart, DDV, Deuce and Precious off the bench. I don’t see how that team would be “out of the running to do anything interesting,” and that’s without even considering the return or Mitch.

It’s a take that reeks of personal bias, again, the kind we are used to getting on a regular basis from E.