Malaki is Michael redd reincarnated he needs to be kept above all else with sochan
Playing on the Spurs last season didn’t bump up his perceived value in my opinion. To me, he has more value to us than what we would receive back. So I think he’s undervalued. Keldon and Vassel might be overvalued. Hard to say. If Vassel was already under a new contract I think he might have a better path to a potential trade.
But I imagine they will let Victor play with all of these guys, and then to some degree see who plays best with Victor and then go from there.
Personally, I don't think they're trading Branham nor do I think they'll need to include him to get a deal done unless we're moving into the top 5 or so and even then I think they can construct compe ive packages without him in there. All that being said, if they love someone enough that high then I'm not opposed to doing it. I just don't see the need or want to on our part.
Edited to add: I also don't see it as an either or between Devin and Branham. They can easily play Devin at the 3 and Branham at the 2 and move Keldon. There are many ways to construct this team.
It would be hard to argue with that (the two needing to be kept part, anyway).
It’s not about if they can play together, they can. It’s about whether they should. Their shooting tendencies are nearly the same, that there’s too much of an overlap. Don’t you feel like it was too much of a coincidence that when one of them was injured, the other one wasn’t? And then when the other one became available, the other one all of a sudden wasn’t? Tbh that was all by design to see how well Malaki would fit in Devin’s role. Both are dynamic scorers and the best partner on the wing for each is a specialist who won’t take away their shots and would play defense so that they’re not worn out on offense. If Devin is playing with Malaki and Devin is focused on scoring, do you think Malaki will pick up the slack on defense? When it’s the other way around, Devin could probably pick up the slack but that’s not utilizing his strengths at all.
They barely played together this past season and that wasn’t a coincidence.
Keldon is the one they should look to trade now while his value is at its peak. He would have the most value and he won't get to 20+ points a game again.
Exactly. Way too much reading into and attempting to reverse engineer something that hasn't even happened yet.
Sure, when the team is ready to contend or at least attempt to, it'll almost certainly not be with their top three wings consisting of these two and Johnson in large part due to their sub par defense, but for now they're fine and they have enough quan y and quality of draft capital to acquire a late lottery pick without sacrificing any.
I completely agree with that comparison.
Conversely, If Devin is playing alongside Keldon and Devin is focused on scoring Keldon isn't going to pick up the slack on defense? I see Devin as potentially a very good 2-way player, and I see Malaki as a potential higher end offensive scorer. I see Malaki as more the Devin Booker to Vassell's Mikal Bridges.
As for them being 'injured' when the other was playing, I think that had more to do with ping pong balls than anything else.
I find "their shooting tendencies are nearly the same" to be confusing. They use different parts of the court and don't really overlap there much at all. Maybe between the FT line and top of the key; otherwise they operate differently.
That said I don't think they'll necessarily see a ton of time on the court together. Maybe they'll try it out.
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