The trade is definitely getting meme'd to death for LA fans haha.
Trying not to get too cocky while PLD is struggling. His numbers will get back to normal eventually.
I do think Iafallo and Kupari were kind of irrelevant to the Kings and Chevy wisely used that to his advantage. Basically sold Iafallo as a cap dump when he essentially replaced Copp role for us which has been quite valuable. Chevy probably weasled the 2nd out of them for being "forced to take" Iafallo
But the part about Vilardi for Dubois being crazy as Vailardi may be both better and cheaper? That part is working out as well as we could have imagined. Vilardi is slower but basically putting up Mark Stone type numbers.
Everything this team has needed (more two way forwards that help score and defend) arrived all at once it feels like. And they are helping get the most out of the guys who don't have the defensive talent.
Namestnikov Niederreiter then Vilardi Iafallo basically leveled up our overall team defense so much we went from being a terrible defensive team under Maurice and Lowry to a top defensive squad in the league with pretty average defensive personnel... 1/3 of the forward corps is a big plus defensively and the scoring hasn't dropped off much if at all.
Not saying anything anyone doesn't know, just excited for what is next. Maybe adding more two way talent is a good idea...