The Hornets have been healthy as hell all year long, but we still lack bigs. I just can’t bring myself to hoping this roster stays intact for a playoff “run”. We are just too damn small. I don’t even know what trade I’m necessary looking for but we gotta do something here Mitch (Kupchak). Devonte’ is still out with a groin issue so there is not necessarily a complete log jam at guard but when he returns there will be. At the 1 and 2 we have Lamelo, Devonte’, Rozier, and Monk; one of them has to go in the somewhat near future. We clearly don’t trust Richards or Carey and both Biz and Zeller(our only two players taller than 6’7”) are off the books next year too so we HAVE to fucking do something, preferably soon.
We play a Zone more than anyone in the NBA, having two little guys on the perimeter is probably not the best idea, especially when we suck at closing out on shooters as a team… This leads me to thinking Terry or Devonte’ need to be traded. Terry has 2 years left and Devonte’ contract is up after this year. If we can get a promising young big we probably need to trade Terry, for contract matching purposes. If we trade Devonte’ we would also have to include somebody else because he is on a MLE… Fuck this is kinda brutal, maybe I should layoff Mitch. I would rather Trade Graham or Rozier but lets see if a Monk trade makes sense… Probs couldn’t get shit for him either because his contract is up after this season.
Ok here’s my take we need to re-sign Devonte’ and Monk ASAP and trade Terry…. I Love terry but that’s about the only way I can see us add a meaningful big before the playoffs… I’ll lay off Mitch in the interim because this is clearly not an easy decision. Maybe we should/should’ve played our two young bigs(Richards and Carey Jr.) to see what we had?!? Nah that makes too much sense for chinless Borrego.
Hugo CLT 