We went into the season excited to see how AB would play with Les Kim and Chadwick. They did well together, but the fit just did not sit well with us for the long term. We wanted to find people to go with AB long term and did we find a good running mate in Charles Alleman. It’s very fitting for us that we now had, as our two core guys, names of AB and Charles. Anyways. We tried to get our 1 back, still waiting to hear back from the Hawks on that trade. After not getting our one back at the deadline though, we moved ahead towards the playoffs. Got in, gave the pistons their toughest challenge they had
, and then bowed out. It was an interesting season that had way more fluidity and involvement from my end than I thought I was going to have, and I’m happy about it. This offseason, we felt the same way about Cuevas that we did about Kim. He just didn’t fit what we needed, overlapping with AB too much. So to the trade wire we went. It was initially shaky, but we wound up getting Anas (a target we tried to get last season) in a deal that we felt got a very interesting third core player for us. Having two dominant bigs to go with a guard is not something we have tried before from a team building experience, and look forward to the experience. The only other player type we would realistically like to get is a pass first PG, and I think this team will be good to go long term. We have a few good prospects outside of that, but this team is for sure built for the long term and not for the immediate, which is exciting for us to see. I expect to make the playoffs with AB and Alleman being dominant and having some vets who can still contribute (Wiseman and McAllister.) This te is a playoff contender as built for sure in our conference. However, we aren’t attached, per se, to anyone outside of the big 3 mentioned above - so we can also sell any of the others for younger players to build with too.
Starting 5 might be:
AB
Bryce James
Wiseman
McAlister
Alleman
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