re: Who wants a #HOTTAKE?

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We absolutely needed to make Cousins happy this season

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What would make him happier?
Sign Jrue to a retarded contract, minimums everywhere else, win 44 games and make the playoffs but have absolutely no flexibitlity to do anything in the offseason but resign Cousins and minimums,

or,

Let Jrue walk, have a game plan to surround AD/Cousins with a certain kind of player, try to sign guys like Rondo, Simmons, Tucker, Hardaway, SwaggyP, etc., maybe make the playoffs, maybe not, but still move towards improving all year, and then have room to sign some decent FA's next offseason.

Right now, we pretty much committed to the current team for the foreseable future. There's very littel we can do to get better outside of getting hurt guys back and hoping minimum contract guys work out great.
I think Cousins and AD for that matter, would have appreciated an approach that centered around them and looked to improve over the next 2-3 years with a clear goal in tact, and the flexibility and assets to attain them.

The team is AD and Cousins, and then role players. You can't pay a role player $26M a year.