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Crazy the Pistons couldnt even get a 2nd for Killian Hayes
Who's the GM there? Horrible job so far outside of drafting
Who's the GM there? Horrible job so far outside of drafting
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A lot of pod guys really liked pj Washington and would constantly bring him up in the last month for possible tradesNo idea why Dallas wanted PJ
Great Trade for the Knicks, no 1st either phew
I think there is a pretty major disconnect between the idea of PJ Washington and the reality of PJ Washington.
The idea part is that he's a positionless, switchable defender who can stretch the floor from 3 or punish smaller defenders on the block. The reality is he's not particularly good at any of these things and overtly bad at the defensive part in particular, making him sort of a blah jack-of-all-trades who continually frustrated the Hornets.
Charlotte coach Steve Clifford’s comments after a recent loss to the Lakers may have been tagging Washington.
"You know how many guys there are in our league that can average 15 or 16 (points) and are no good? Their team never wins when they're out there, and because they score 15 or 16, they stick around for five or six years," Clifford said.
Washington, I'll remind you, is in his fifth season and averaged 15.7 points a game in 2022-23. His defense, in particular, has been invisible for most of the season; the biggest variable in this trade is whether the Mavs can coax him into being a more active, aware force on this end of the floor.
Needless to say, the Mavericks giving up their only real trade asset — their 2027 first-round pick — just to turn Grant Williams into Washington doesn't feel like a big win to me. I get that Washington has more offensive upside that might prove useful in a playoff game, but again, that's been more theoretical. We're talking about a 35.9 percent career 3-point shooter who doesn't rebound or draw fouls. Williams, meanwhile, shoots 37.8 percent from 3 for his career. I get that Washington has more juice on the ball and in the paint, but his True Shooting marks have been 54.2 and 54.5 the last two seasons.
Needless to say, this is an amazing trade for Charlotte. Grant Williams might have been overrated in Boston, but he's exactly the type of dirty-work guy the Bugs have lacked. To get a very lightly protected first-round pick from Dallas out of it makes this arguably the best trade by the Hornets in the Mitch Kupchak Era.
(Ironically it might also be the last one, but still).
beggars cant be choosyCrazy the Pistons couldnt even get a 2nd for Killian Hayes
Who's the GM there? Horrible job so far outside of drafting
OG news is a positive, they'll have him healthy and good to go come playoff time while adding more depth today to navigate the final stretch of the regular season.
It's not like their play has massively dropped off either since he went down.
The Knicks aren’t starting or closing with Bojan right?
Speedy recovery