Trade deadline

[EricaLubarsky]

Originally Posted by saclare

Nice buy-low for the Lakers, not sure I care for Rui's fit here.

Yeah I was disappointed that we missed the trade considering how little he was worth. We could have probably done like Green and a couple of 2nds and kept the FRPs in 2025/2027

But he's not that great. At 6'8" he's a downright terrible rebounder at the 3/4. His defense is poor. His three-point shooting is merely average (34%) which could be understandable if he was forced to take a bunch of defended threes, but he's shooting 28% when he gets a pass and is wide-open, which is the type of three-point shooting we'd want from him with Luka on the team.

He can do other stuff, but for a forward, we need rebounding, defense, and shooting. He doesn't really do any of that well. We don't need more guys that can't defend, rebound, or even finish when Luka finds them open.