Bucks REFUSED to trade Bobby Portis for Jonathan Kuminga

Bucks REFUSED to trade Bobby Portis for Jonathan Kuminga

So, it’s coming out now that the Buckaroos were offered Jonathan Kaminga in a signin trade. Basically, it would have been the Warriors would have been willing to make it happen and salary-wise, the Bucks could have made it happen by giving up Bobby Portoris and the Bucks declined to do this. and John Horst. It just seems like somebody in that organization is tanking it within from within. Not even just by itself. Bobby Poris for Kaminga. I would do it. I would go get Kaminga. But it’s just it’s not just that by itself. You can’t just look at it in a vacuum. You have to look at it and consider reportedly the Bucks were trying to trade Bobby Poris for Grant Williams a couple uh trade deadlines ago, which I was open to. I was fine with at the time. I thought we need a defense and this that and the other. I was fine with that. I wasn’t necessarily like pushing for it. That was before I had this channel, but like I was open to that idea. But regardless, getting Grant Williams on the contract he had versus getting Kaminga, you were willing to trade Bobby Portoris for Grant Williams who I believe was four years 90 million, but you wouldn’t do it for Jonathan Kaminga. So before you even say whether you would do it for Bobby or Jonathan Kaminga, you have to consider that they were trying to trade Bobby Poris for much lesser players not that long ago. And then you add another layer to it of the Bucks just waved and stretched Damen Lillard to where we’re going to lose out on whatever Damen Lillard would have been back for the playoffs. And then you’re losing out on the last year of Damen Lillard’s contract next season. And then you’re also having to pay 20 million a year for the next five years so that they could go sign Miles Turner and offer him more than any other team was willing to offer him. Maybe the Pacers seem mad about it. Maybe if he came back to the Pacers with that offer sheet, they would have matched. I don’t think that contract is ridiculous. But when you see that the Bucks gave him more than the Pacers originally offered him and you lose Dame and you’re spending 20 million a year for five years on giving up Dame, it’s like, all right, we just put a lot into that center position for Miles Turner to make up for that. Maybe we should allocate some resources to the forward spot where we have all of Kyle Kosma, one of the worst human beings that’s ever been in the NBA, and Tori and Prince. Rather than do that, get younger as a team that has no first round draft picks for basically the next decade. They have a pick swap, but and they have one more draft pick, but overall not a lot of picks left. They’ve also given rid of most of their second round picks. rather than get a younger asset that’s kind of you could buy low on who he’s a guy that is a flawed player is not the best at, you know, reading the floor and making quick decisions, but you’re able to get him from a team that overly needs that stuff because the Warriors are the most uh I guess IQ based team in the NBA where it’s a lot of reading screens, reading uh cutters and stuff like that. A lot of motion and not a lot of just go come off screens and play. You could have put him in a situation with Milwaukee where the biggest criticism is we don’t run much of an offense. It kind of is come off a dribble handoff and go get a bucket of your own. You could have got a young guy who that’s where he thrives. That when you see Kaminga thrives, it’s usually when like Curry’s out and it’s like uh we have nobody that can score Kaminga. Just take the ball and score. With the books, you could do that. We’re desperate for guys that could do that. And so Bobby Porters for Kaminga straight up. I think Kaminga has more value. I would want Kaminga. But when you take it on the extra level of, okay, Giannis is getting older, like you want to maybe even start to think about moving towards playing him at the center. You have Miles Turner on a big deal, who we just gave up a lot for at the center position. You have Jericho Sims as well bringing back. You have Tyler Smith who could be something in the future. You would think, you know what, right now might be the time to move off Bobby Portoris. He’s 30. He’s one of our older guys. He’s very flawed. You know, he did play better this postseason than he had ever had in the past. give him credit for that, but generally he doesn’t show up well in the playoffs. You know, he’s a guy that is very flawed. You would think you got to be very open to moving on from, especially seeing as they’ve got got rid of the whole old core, but out of all the guys that were a part of the championship core. I won’t say all the guys because it’s not that many that were that huge, but Bobby Poris is the one that you’re just unwilling to move off of all of a sudden. It just makes no sense to me when you could consider it would make it easier to be able to cut Koozma or move off of him somehow. When you consider the fact that we’re good in the center position, we don’t have a lot of depth at the forward position. When you consider the fact that the Bucks have been trying to go younger and that they want to be able to get younger because they’re not going to have draft picks moving forward. When you take everything into totality, them moot not making this, not pulling the strings on this, not making this happen. A lot of the stuff that they’re doing, it just seems like they’re just trying to take themselves because it’s like Bobby Portoris has been in trade rumors for the last couple years for lesser players than Kaminga. And I’m not even the biggest Kaminga guy in the world, but I just think that with the Bucks, he fits way better than with the Warriors. And even with his production on the Warriors, when you consider potential and youth and the need positional need, it just seems like a no-brainer that that’s a move that you should be making as the Bucks. So, for me, this feels ridiculous. This seems unjustifiable. Um I I have almost no words for this. Um I don’t know if the Bucks are planning on playing like Mile Like, think about this again. Miles Turner and Bobby Portoris are now two of the biggest assets for the Bucks outside of Giannis. And so what are we planning on doing? Having significant minutes with Giannis at the three, Bobby at the four, and Miles Turner at the five in 2025. Are we kidding me? I was I’m happy with the resigning of Bobby Portoris, but treating him as some untouchable guy makes no sense because you can’t even play him with this team much more than 20 minutes a game unless you’re going to do that, which like I said, have Giannis at the three, Miles Turner at the five, which is just a recipe for getting ran off the floor. A recipe for having a very old school offense that is not going to be very highowered. It this is just absurd to me on every level. Um, let me relax. Not absurd on every level, but this is a bit wild because if you look at just in a nutshell, value for value, I think Kaminga is a good amount more valuable than uh Bobby Portoris. When you consider that we’re good on the big man spot without Bobby Portoris, when you consider that we have no forwards, you consider that we’ve tried to trade Bobby Portoris in the past for lesser players when Bobby’s contract was, I think, a little bit um more valuable than it is now. Uh I mean, actually, scratch that last point. his contract is still valuable, the resigning, but this just makes no sense to me. I don’t agree with it. And and I guess I will backtrack a little on sabotage. There’s some good signings that the Bucks have made this off season, but it’s a lot of stuff that just has me scratching my head still. So, overall, it’s been a mixed bag this off season. Amir Coffee, Cole Anthony, some nice underrated signings, but some also some headscratching stuff like the trade of Pat Conetan. Um, and this right here is definitely uh definitely a headscratcher, you know, content just because we threw a pick to get very little space. It didn’t seem like you would have to do that, but they did. Let me know what you all think, though. Drop a comment. Hit that like and subscribe if you’d like

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