We need to look into moving Giddey at the end of the season for a bucket getter, possibly a guy like Donovan Mitchell assuming he’d be willing to re-up with us. He’s only 20, but the last thing we need is to be paying a non-shooter $35,000,000+ a year.

It’s been said that he’s not a fit with Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, and that’s absolutely true. I believe Giddey will be a very good player, but is he the guy we want next to Shai? I’ve tried to be patient on it, but he looks like the same guy so far this year. If he’s running a pick and roll, the defense automatically goes under and he can’t make them pay for that. Unless Giddey has a size mismatch, he’s almost useless as a scorer. There’s a reason he was on the bench for the stretch we came against Cleveland the other night.

This is going to come off like I’m a hater, I’m not. I just don’t think he’s a fit, and I think it’d be foolish to not look into packaging him into a better player this off-season before offering a pricy rookie scale extension.

In the meantime, I think Isaiah Joe should replace him in the starting five, and let Giddey run the offense in the whole 12 minutes that Shai isn’t on the floor.