re: AD wins his ring after his trade, Jrue wins his ring after his trade and...

He continues to improve year over year and is under 25, a top tier defender, which you admit, so it’s not same ole Lonzo.

He doesn’t drive regularly, that’s true, but he doesn’t need to to earn his paycheck as a secondary creator and shooting guard that is the only under 25 player averaging 5 boards, 5 assists, over 10ppg, better than 40% from three on high volume, over .55%efg, and a top tier DPBM. No one else under 25 is doing that. He’s in a class by himself as basically the ultimate role player and glue wing.

Our defense is also not Stan’s, and Lonzo was a good defender in a bad scheme with bad philosophies last year, but he consistently ranked our best on the team in DBPM and other advanced stats…even when Jrue was here. So to say he wouldn’t work under Willie is silly.

Again, people(maybe you, maybe not) can’t sit there and pump up Buddy Hield(who doesn’t drive either, terrible defender), Evan Fournier(doesn’t drive, terrible defender), Tim Hardaway( can’t shoot this year and doesn’t drive, good but not elite defender), or whatever other 20 millionish player the Pels are looking to trade for to fill that hole, and then claim Lonzo isn’t worth it. When he’s better than all those guys and every person ive heard named as targets in the last few days sans maybe Powell, who isn’t actually a realistic get.