Sonny wrote:
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The thing is, everybody gravitates to what's shiny and new. When we pay FVV (as we should), he will invariably have a lull in his development sometime, at which point people here will put him on the trading block looking for what else is shiny-and-new at the time. He will then bounce back, and people will say "phew" I'm glad we didn't trade him. Precisely like the cycle JV has just gone through, for example (and one that Powell is going through too, hopefully).
After the 2017 trade deadline, Serge came to this team to save us from a chronic PF hole we've had for years. Without his defence, length and spacing, we wouldn't have passed the Bucks last year. Since then, he's put up pretty much the same numbers as when we signed him (albeit with an off night here and there like everyone else), did what was asked of him, and filled in at C (while JV was struggling and Yak wasn't today's Yak)
Like, I love FVV, don't get me wrong, but less then 3mths ago people were throwing Casey under bus for playing him in the 4th. Now the kid's balling. Less then 3mths ago people couldn't wait to get rid of JV. Now he's a defensive machine, shooting 3's and closing games. Will either hit a "Powell" slump soon? Will Serge? Who knows. All I know is if Masai was reactionary and "trigger-happy" to what's shiny-and-new, we wouldn't have built anything. We'd be a hodgepodge of "flavour of the day" players, with no chemistry and no development. So I'd say let's leave the trade chatter for after the playoffs. For now, my vote is to keep them both, unless playoff performance tells us otherwise.
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