I think Siakim would be miles from "lateral."Wormwood wrote: ↑Sat May 28, 2022 5:03 pmBrad Beal doesn't really fill a need: he's already in the mold of Booker.
Siakam is a lateral move, probably doesn't move the needle enough to put us back in the finals
Embiid... yes oh God yes if he's gettable, but I don't think he is. But of all the people mentioned,
Jaylen Brown doesn't fill a need, same as Beal
LaVine doesn't fill a need and he's not a superstar
Damian Lilliard doesn't fill a big need (CP3 still very good, he just needs a better back up. Rubio?). Plus, swapping CP3 for Dame still leaves us with a disgruntled Ayton.
Don't throw things at me, but LeBron would make a certain amount of sense basketball wise. (I'm not going to go into what people think of him personally or politically... not here). But, a scoring PF who distributes the ball and rebounds (plays good defense when motivated, which was seldom last year). Gets to the FT line a lot. He does address a lot of weaknesses on the court, and would take load off of CP3 as a playmaker / distributor.
Gut feeling says Flex is right, and a superstar is going to force their way here, and it's most likely to be KD.
A PF that can create for teammates as well as many PGs, gets to the line more than ANYONE on our current team, while also having championship experience and used to being the #1 target on the scouting report. I mean, 33 year old KD @ 48M/year the next 4 years or 27 year old Siakim @ 34M/yr for 2 years? He's no KD, but he might be better for our current team than KD in 2 years. Depends how KD holds up.