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Originally Posted by dirk digler
Suns trading Eric Bledsoe to the Bucks for Greg Monroe and a 1st rd pick
I haven’t been impressed with the Bucks this year so far I thought they would be better.
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Man...that's not great.
Giannis on his own is enough to keep Milwaukee outside of the bottom 10 in all likelihood and Monroe has very little value to a team looking to play uptempo and build around it's young scorers. Can Monroe evey play alongside Chandler? If he does, you're stunting Chriss. And it's not like they really have a long-term plan for Monroe either. Hell, they actually have a 35 yr old Chandler under contract for LONGER than they get Monroe.
I guess they're just hoping to pump/dump Monroe as well but you're maybe looking at a last 1st; more likely early 2nd. They really could not have botched the Eric Bledsoe/Isaiah Thomas/Goran Dragic thing any worse than they did. They managed to turn 3 very good young PGs on favorable contracts into a 1st in '17 (probably in the 10-12 range from the Heat), a 1st in '18 (probably the same from the Bucks) a 1st in 2021 (Heat; who cares?) and whatever they get from a Monroe deal.
That's remarkable in a league where picks outside of the top 5 are generally complete crap shoots and anything outside of the top 15 will get traded away just to clear a bad salary off the books.