Camden wrote:The Rage Monster wrote:alexftbl8181 wrote:The Rage Monster wrote:WildWolf2813 wrote:Do not trade Pek under any circumstances until the Love situation is resolved. Why deal Pek only to watch Love leave anyway? It would be the Wolves-y thing to do, compound Love's inevitable exit by trading Pek only to watch Love and Rubio leave.
A major underrated part of this is that this summer the team can open up negotiations with Rubio. Who's to say the agent would even entertain the offers? It's not as if they ever really wanted Ricky to be here.
I agree, I think Love will end up leaving and have said we should get as much as we can for him now. We probably won't get someone as talented as Love though so the idea of trading Pek would be a last attempt at keep Love. Either Love or Pek needs to be traded this summer, they just don't bring enough to the table defensively to ever get above an 8th seed. If we don't trade Pek I see us as about a .500 team ending just outside the playoffs, if that happens Love walks and at best we end up getting minimal value in a sign and trade. However, if we trade Pek and add an impact player at SG or SF I could see a scenario with us making the playoffs and Love sticking around.
The starters with Pek-Love-Rubio almost always dominates the other teams starters, a lot of times by double digits, Defense or not
And how well do those starters do in the 4th quarter of close games? It doesn't mean anything to dominate a teams in the first quarter of a regular season games when the other team isn't giving 100%
For the most part it's been the bench's fault for not keeping the lead the same length or even losing the lead entirely.
Our bench is terrible and it is probably responsible for a handful of our loses, but the starters usually come back when the game gets too close or it's tied. So in a tied game in the 4th we are routinely unable win, this tells me more about that core than jumping out to a lead in the 1st quarter.
