John Hollinger

You need to be tanking.

You...

okay, you got rid of two bad contracts, but you had to give up Keon Ellis to do it, who was a guy you should have extended before the season in the first place.

That was a puzzling deal.

I think the only real thing they had on Sabonis was the Toronto trade.

And they rightly decided that Jakob Pertl's contract was so bad that they just could not do it.

So I'm not going to dunk on them for that one.

And the fact is, I mean, they're terrible enough right now.

They don't really need to shed talent because they're like 12 and 43 or whatever it is already.

Yeah, okay.

I mean, maybe you can argue they should have kept Schroeder, right?

Atlanta got Jack Landale for nothing.

I mean, it's a small trade, but that was amazing that they were able to get him for absolutely nothing.

Yeah, right?

And I mean, the Hawks had no size, especially with Przingis being so unreliable.

So that one made sense.

Golden State with the Przingis deal, I mean, I...

I guess I sort of get it.

I mean, I think the thing they really take away from that is there just wasn't any kind of market for Jonathan Kaminga at all.

So this has kind of been the year of teams overplaying their hands, and that was another example.