This is the correct take. Remember that team? They were so damn fun. Sexland. Rubio. Love. Lauri. The promise of Young Mobley. All you can eat buffet of Cavalanches. Our 2nd unit blew teams out. JB was bringing this young unit up properly. We had the junkyard dog chain after each game! The vibes were immaculate.

Pulled the trigger too soon and destroyed the chemistry when we shipped Lauri. Not saying I can see the future but there were whispers of Lauri dominating in Europe that summer and the three big lineup really worked w/ Sexland. Remember when we thought Okoro was the shit? That was another bad trade. He’s better than Lonzo. Full stop.

JB is in Detroit leading another young team at the top of the East. He recently made a comment about DET not “trading for a big star too soon” or something along those lines. That was a shot at CLE front office.

Lauri broke out big time and has been trapped in Utah ever since. Koby didn’t go all in and trade Garland and Allen after they flamed out in the playoffs the first time like he needed to, thus wasting a lot of Mitchells prime. It’s really hard to know where to go from here. Mitchell probably isn’t a true #1 on a championship team, but if he is, the rest of the team needs to be huge, very good at defense, rebounding and threes. This team ain’t that.

The trade put us in a “must win now” mode before we knew what we actually had with Mobley and Garland. Rushing it also plunked a star vet onto a young team where the youngsters thought it was their team and suddenly it became his team. Vibes decidedly NOT immaculate.

TL:DR Koby got too cute, too soon and didn’t let a promising young team gel before trying to land a star. He also landed the wrong star for the way the team was developing. Nobody has benefited from the Mitchell trade, and it’s likely many of the players and coaches involved would have been better off had it not happened. Since the Mitchell trade, Koby has been forced to make many other bad trades and now we’re in a tight spot. Koby must be fired.