re: Official Free Agency and Trade Thread: Latest Pels sign Charles Cooke to 2 way

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It is not an ideal situation, but our options are very limited

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yeah. i mean, i get it from the Pels perspective. they need to keep Cousins. they dont have time to waste. years of poor management and bad luck have led them this spot where they have to make moves for less than ideal players.

i just seriously doubt this deal would work out well.... which, to be fair, is probably the way things would go w/o the trade anyway.

for me, again, it comes back to the idea of changing things up. Reggie Jackson is a pure high PnR point guard who needs the ball in his hands to be effective. Pels need a guy that can create, but the two best players arent going to be maximized in an offense that runs high PnR after high PnR. would be disappointing to me for them to run something like that w/ Davis+Cousins

ETA- id be a lot more into it if they hadnt just signed Holiday for 5/$126 to then become a 3 and D guard

The sample size was very small, but one of the few things Jackson did well last year was the Handoff where he was in the 94th percentile and that will be a growing part of the offense. If you can give him some things to do that he's good at within the flow of the offense, maybe he'll be less likely to go all hero ball and break the offense.

One thing I think we can agree on is that if they do manage to win the perceived value of the players on the roster will go up around the league. AD doing what he did a few years ago on a top 4 team is the MVP instead of a player putting up stats on a bad team, that's just how it works. So if the team did manage to have a good season and Jackson was healthy and productive, he might even become a positive trade asset. Fisher talked about Jackson being a better trade piece than Jrue when the time comes for John Wall demands a trade to the Pels and if Jackson does return to form and I agree. They might be able to build a Wall trade package around Jackson, young player and future picks.

Wonder if we could slide Asik in that deal for nothing but a 2nd Rounder?

I think the question to answer there is why does Teletovic only play 16 MPG? Teletovic played the most minutes with Monroe, so I'm guessing a stretch 4 is something they see as a lower usage bench role and they'd have a need to pay twice as much for Ryno.

Lakers Waive David Nwaba

Dell needs to get on that shite. Really good defensive player

Lakers will prob re-sign Nwaba once he clears waivers

I don't think he is going to clear waivers:

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A team which claims David Nwaba would inherit a $1.3M non-guaranteed minimum salary, and RFA with Early Bird rights when it’s over.

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