paulpressey25 wrote:tydett wrote:Anyone saying we'd be better this season with Jrue and Grayson obviously did not watch Jrue or Grayson in these playoffs.
The point is this. We blew our wad on Dame. And frankly what we got was Harden (I like Steger’s comp there) versus Steph.
You can say “yes, I want Harden more than Grayson and Jrue” and that’s fine. But it belies the fact we also traded three full years of our draft, at a time when Giannis will be 34 years old. Those swaps and pick had tremendous value. Those assets could have been used in a different trade.
I don’t fault the Dame trade. Seemed like a great idea at the time. But it didn’t work.
An actual non-toxic, ultra-competitor version of Harden is basically the exact kind of co-star you want next to Giannis. And it certainly "worked"to the tune of us having statistically the best lineups in the league built around those two. Playing zero playoff minutes together and immediately declaring the pairing a failure is pretty wild.