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.
Cam is our future he’s only 22!!!
*ahem* Not saying you’re wrong, but I believe you’re leaving Joe Tsai out of the equation, and IIRC he’s made it pretty clear that he doesn’t want to do a full rebuild, and instead wants to field a competitive team, one which also does some future-building.
Personally I love this year’s team, echoes of “Brooklyn Grit.” TBH I’m totally UNCONCERNED about titles at this point, instead just loving how we play fast, spread it around, play hard, and have a star in the making in Cam T.
Seasons like this are rather magical IMO.
Meanwhile, we’ve played one of the hardest schedules to open the season and are somehow only 4-5. That is absolutely amazing, no?
Team has to get bigger. Simmons and Claxton will help.
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.
Spencer and Royce are on an expiring so I see those 2 being moved but DFS might stick around for another season unless a Contender offers the house for him. Ben won’t have any value until next season when he’s an expiring and I think the core right now should be Cam and Nic.