Camden wrote:Not that this move is earth-shattering, but considering we didn't drop GRIII all year even when we needed a PG badly... It doesn't make sense nor does it give me a feel that Flip has a plan to stick with. I add this to the Brewer, Payne, Young, Williams trades as head-scratchers.
I can see/know why you see the Payne and Thad trades as head scratchers. On the other hand, I can't understand the discontent of the Brewer and Williams trades. For both of those I see Flip's hands were tied after being asked to be moved by the players, and I personally liked both of those trades for our team. Freed cap space for our team in the future by removing Brewer, and I believe Neal fits much better here than Williams. I just hope we can resign him for 2 years going forward.
This move does nothing to get me excited, nor does it bother me. I never saw enough of GR3 in the pros to be able to decide if he could play. Flip obviously saw enough of him in practice over 3/4 of this year to decide he just doesn't have it. I trust that. Now we'll see if Hamilton can be a serviceable body. It seems he can shoot out to the 3 point, though the sample size is much too small to decide if he is effective at that.
If it was my choice, I would have cut Robbie and held onto GR3 for at least another year. Unfortunately, my choice doesn't matter.