We’re playing better than expected (for me) and our role players are lighting it up. This is cool to see but I don’t want to lose sensibility from the long term planning. I’m of the camp that we should trade DFS, Royce, Din, Ben (difficult I know), etc to get draft capital and young players while their value is ultra high. Go into a rebuild with Cam, Mikal, Nic as the nucleus (not sold on CamJ). We can’t get too caught up in the hot shooting and assume we’ll be more than a first round out again. The only caveat is we don’t have our own pick this year, which I see as the opposing view to not trade these guys.
Food for thought, I’d keep an eye on Sacramento for Ben. They’ve always shown interest in him and he can play off Sabonis and Fox. They’re struggling a bit without Fox. Maybe we can pry a first round pick from then and salary fillers.
My fear is if they go on a winning streak and take out a few brand name teams, there might be a temptation to say “hey- we are just ‘X’ away from contending” and I don’t think that’s the case at all. There might be a really good foundation emerging here. Breaking that up for short term “gain” is a bad idea.