If Poetl is our only move, then it's certainly a disappointing trade deadline.
In saying that, we've needed a C for ~3 years since Serge/Gasol left, he's only 27 years old, the acquisition price was pretty reasonable, and he already knows the organization and is friends with Siakam. So it does make sense as an acquisition, but only if we're making some other moves.
Look at the history of the NBA - 51/76 champions were #1 seeds, and only two weren't top 3 seeds. i.e. the NBA is NOT a league where you can squeak into the playoffs, get into the play-in, etc, and hope to do some damage. You frankly have virtually a 0% chance of winning even as a middle of the pack #4-6 seed.
So with that context, the way I look at it is if we just add Poetl and then try to keep the band together, we will not win this year, and we will have virtually no reasonable path to become a contender in the next ~2-3 years. We'll tread water in mediocrity, and accomplish nothing as our core players age, we lose guys to free agency, etc.
The alternative is an aggressive retool. We're clearly not blowing it up entirely if we just added Poetl, but there is potential down the path of trading ~2 of OG, FVV, and Gary. For example, let's say we trade OG + FVV. The return on those two should be quite good, with multiple 1st round picks, and some young players coming back in the trades. We could go into next season with Siakam, Scottie, Poetl, Gary, Precious, Otto Porter Jr, some new young players from the OG/FVV trade, and more picks to use as trade chips. It's certainly not
guaranteed to lead to building a contender, but at least there's a chance if we go in that direction. If we just hold onto our guys, I really don't see any realistic chance of it happening. So we'll see what the rest of the day brings, but hoping to see us sell a couple of those guys so we can retool for next year.
Poeltl is 10 protected but only this yr or next yr. . Is he worth that.
If trading for this, it must mean they are signing FVV and Trent and keeping OG
That puts us into luxury tax territory with a group not realistically expected to contend. I would be surprised if that's what we did... gotta think there are other moves coming, and that it'll be more of a retool (i.e. Poetl in, 1 or more of FVV, Gary, and/or OG out).
