@Los216 You might want to watch this Suns/Warriors game.
Obviously, he's not going to keep this up, but E Payton started the 1st qtr
7-7, 2-2 3P and 1 assist. Meaning he scored or assisted on 18 of the Suns first 20 points. Steph also started out 0-5 from the field and didnt hit his first shot until Payton checked out(I'm not watching the game so I don't know how correlated that is though)
I'm not bringing this up to lament the Cavs not getting Payton at the deadline. Using the 2nd and salaries for Hood and Hill was the right move in my book. And I'm not sure if Payton can play off the ball or off LeBron nearly as well as George Hill can.
But holy hell....How inept is Orlando at trading . I know that you cant keep every young player and sometimes you can have too many young players on a bad team and need to weed some out to focus on the key guys but they traded.....
Tobias Harris for vet journeymen
Oladipo and D Sabonis for Ibaka who they promptly shipped out less than a year later for chucker Terrence Ross and a late first in 2017 which they then traded to Philly for a 2020 1st(top20 protected)
E Payton for a freaking 2nd round pick
So they basically gave up Tobias Harris, Oladipo, Sabonis, and Payton for a 2020 1st round pick(top20 pick)
Not saying they should have kept those guys but damn, that is a poor set of trades
