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We are very much in the thick of the playoff hunt, and that's with missing our best player the entire season, the 2nd best player for long stretches, the 3rd best player recently, and the 4th best player for stretches.

We have talent to compete, we don't have enough to push us over the hump to being a championship contender yet though

Trust me, I'm optimistic and a sunshine pumper, however the truth is we let a talented basketball player go for nothing.

When those mistakes occur frequently, they can become the downfall of building teams.

We should be a playoff team when fully healthy, but the truth is we're better with Lonzo than we are with Satoransky and temple.

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Posted by Soggymoss

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Posted on 1/2/22 at 10:14 am to htran90

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we let a talented basketball player go for nothing.

Temple pretty much single handily led the comeback against the Cavs by hitting 5 clutch 3's in a row. Something Lonzo has never done, Lonzo is a classic good in the first 40 minutes of a game but shrinks when the spotlight is on and you need him to step up.

I don't think we let him go for nothing, we got a return, may not have been a great return, but that's what happens when another team wants to overpay a RFA and you don't want to pay that guy that much.

Personally, add Lonzo and take away Temple and Sato, and we are still sitting at the same record we currently have at best, while having less developmental minutes for Herb, less minutes for Hart to handle the ball and work on that aspect of his game, no trade exception, and no 10 million dollar expiring salary to send out in a trade, and probably no Devonte.

At worst it's a neutral trade to me, maybe could've gotten Chicago to give up a protected 1st like they did for Demar, but that's about it.

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Posted by England_Pelican

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Posted on 1/2/22 at 10:18 am to htran90

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we're better with Lonzo than we are with Satoransky and temple.

…and we’ve gained flexibility and cap space. Sato is expiring. Frankly I like Temple a lot. Automatic on the corner 3 and plays good D. Great vet presence and locker room guy.

Now… do we trust the front office to use that cap space well. If they do, then I still say we win that trade. If they don’t then we may as well have kept him.

Hopefully it’s part of a bigger strategy. We’ll see

I like Zo but not 20 mil Zo.

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