Brandon Knight likely out for rest of the season

[Phrazbit]

At the moment pretty much everyone in that trade deadline carousel is suffering.

The Bucks have been dreadful since losing Knight, the Heat have fallen out of the playoff standings and currently sit 10th and the Suns have struggled and hardly been able to see Knight play.

The Bucks situation is the one ray of light I can see for the moment with the Knight trade. Their point differential with him on the court was not good, but now with him removed entirely it appears as though he may have been propping up a really bad starting lineup. They were 30-23 with him and have gone 8-17 without him.

 

[Joe Mama]

At the moment pretty much everyone in that trade deadline carousel is suffering.

The Bucks have been dreadful since losing Knight, the Heat have fallen out of the playoff standings and currently sit 10th and the Suns have struggled and hardly been able to see Knight play.

The Bucks situation is the one ray of light I can see for the moment with the Knight trade. Their point differential with him on the court was not good, but now with him removed entirely it appears as though he may have been propping up a really bad starting lineup. They were 30-23 with him and have gone 8-17 without him.

I'm not sure how much better or worse our record would be if Brandon Knight and Alex Len had been healthy, but injuries and a much more difficult record schedule have played a large part in the Phoenix Suns difficult past few months. Same goes for Miami obviously. They lost arguably their best player and the guy we all thought was going to fit so well with Goran Dragic just a day after the trade deadline. Also, and I understand why they did it, but iced I still say trading IT was the thing that hurt us the most, at least for this season. The Lakers draft pick could be more painful depending on where it falls and what happens with Brandon Knight.

Joe

 

[slinslin]

Of course the Thomas trade hurt the most. Thomas was the Suns best scoring option. It is not like Thomas was the #1 scoring option because he was hogging so much, it is because he had to be, nobody on this team has the ability to carry the offense like Thomas had unless he was off.

If the Lakers pick is top 5 this year I don't care much even if we dump Knight for next to nothing. The 2016 draft is supposed to be one of the worst since the highschool class is weak this year. That probably means that unless you have a top 3 pick in 2016 you are not going to get a great talent and I would expect the Lakers to make some moves to be more in the #9-13 range next year.

 

[slinslin]

And although I said good things about Knight after the trade, I guess I tried to rationalize the trade based on his good play this season, I am not really convinced about Knight as a player.
I think Bledsoe could be an absolutely brilliant 3rd option for any team and Knight maybe too but I would be ready to call off the experiment on either if we can somehow trade up for Russell, maybe Mudiay too but I find it hard to evaluate him based on Chinese basketball.
Reallistically Bledsoe migth be around the 8-12th best PG in the league right now, Brandon Knight also maybe in that middle tier range but both are in the league long enough that it is more likely that young PGs will push them down rather than them climbing up the ladder.

Really I am ready to dump anyone on this team. Len is the most untouchable but not sold either and even though I was a big believer in Goodwin and still think he can be very good eventually there are still just so many flaws in his game besides shooting that he is probably another 2-3 years away.

 

[Phrazbit]

I'm not sure how much better or worse our record would be if Brandon Knight and Alex Len had been healthy, but injuries and a much more difficult record schedule have played a large part in the Phoenix Suns difficult past few months. Same goes for Miami obviously. They lost arguably their best player and the guy we all thought was going to fit so well with Goran Dragic just a day after the trade deadline. Also, and I understand why they did it, but iced I still say trading IT was the thing that hurt us the most, at least for this season. The Lakers draft pick could be more painful depending on where it falls and what happens with Brandon Knight.

Joe

Even without Bosh, you look at their roster on paper and you'd think they'd easily be a top 8 team in the East. I think some of those guys are a bit overrated and I think Spo is a terrible coach.