Yeah, so much so that it has me rethinking the deal.
I’m looking at it this way… between normal injuries, and his fair share of complete space cadet games, Ayton probably only showed up for 50 games total for the team. 2/3s of those were solid and 1/3rd of them were tantalizingly awesome. But bottom line is he gave effort 50 games of the season.
Nurkic will probably only play 50 games this season, but play hard in all of them so they’re a wash.
Allen is an upgrade over… everyone else on the bench.
Little has a little upside, but wouldn’t expect much.
AND almost as important as any of the above, you will have buy in from EVERY PLAYER on the team. That part addition by subtraction.
But none of that actually matters if health totally details this team. But that would have been the case with or without Ayton.