There are too many decent players for not enough minutes. However, as we’ve pointed out a few times during the offseason so far, even with me liking the signing of Brunson and Hartenstein and the resigning of Mitch, the current team does not make sense.

Even if I don’t agree with the overall strategy, I at least liked the short term moves if he was to follow that strategy.Ģ. Doing that at least showed that he understood that if he wanted this team to be an okay team, it wasn’t going to get there unless he dumped the guys he signed last season while keeping Mitch. We all knew that this was how Leon Rose was going to play it, so knowing that this was the way he was going to play it, my hope (as I noted a bunch of times last season) was that he would clear cap space, sign Jalen Brunson and then extend Mitch Robinson once Brunson was signed and, well, he did just that.

However, as the song says, “I’m not mad about fourteen.” In other words, whatever, it is what it is. Obviously, you all know me, I don’t think they should be striving to just get into the playoffs when they don’t have a team that’s much better than perhaps fluking into the #5 seed and a first round exit (and heck, with this Mitchell trade, it’s even harder to break into the top six, with Cleveland set up quite nicely). Like the title says, I’m fairly accepting about the whole thing. There are so many interchanging thoughts about this non-deal, so let me try to parse mine together.ġ. I just thought that the trade should get its own post. So, as DRed predicted, while the site was being revamped by Mike, Donovan Mitchell was, indeed, traded…to the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Call me mellow yellow