re: Darius garland or Trae young

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He's averaged 27 & 10 over the past 5 seasons. At some point, we have to ask what are we doing here wondering if guys like BI/Garland/Murray are better...they're not, and it's not close.


Now if you want to argue culture and locker room reasons, I get that. But best player, it's Trae.

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I'm not disagreeing that Trae is the best of that group, but there's lot more to the game than just box score numbers. If you look at on/off percentile for the last five seasons Trae is in the 92nd percentile in terms of offensive impact, he's in the 28th percentile in terms of defensive impact.

BI 76th and 49th
Garland 78th and 69th
Murray 49th and 53rd

Not saying those numbers are the end all be all, but they tell part of the story, even if a small part. Some of it is preference. For the things Trae does solve with the roster he opens up even more questions in other areas.

But none of this is even about that, it's about paying Trae in two years. I can't sit here and say I would be overcome with joy to do that.