Yeah. I'm not quite ready to throw in the towel completely with Dalton. I feel like his confidence is shot but he can get that back. I agree that he's shown he can produce in the league so I'm okay with some patience there. If the right deal comes along then sure, trade him. But I'm fine with us trying to develop him some more.
It would be a better problem to have if he actually played good. I mean Kyle Filipkowski just won summer league MVP here (he's 21 and a second round pick) - this is the level that DK put up a load of turd in
Yeah, it's bad because his play is validating the knocks on him from the draft. Streaky shooter with pretty bad defensive awareness and limited ceiling due to age and lacking bball IQ. Teams hold onto their priors for years even if a guy plays well in the league. Dalton is struggling the exact way a lot of teams expected him to struggle.
This is a tough one. That'd be another waste of a recent draft pick. Keep him. Hope he builds back his value by the trade deadline. But as it stands now, I'm trying to see a place where he could get consistent time on the roster during the season to build his value back? IDK.
welcome to most of the nba. we've been spoiled for a while because we kept finding late first/early second rounders that stuck in the league, but most of them do not.
I still believe in him. I wanted to trade him because we have other needs and he had, apparently, some trade value. Now, if he has no trade value, let's develop him. He definitely brings something we don't have. And he can be really important this year in games where 1 or more of our big 3 misses a game. The rest of the roster is not great in scoring after Rui and Ayton. He can also play larger minutes in certain games, against bad teams or teams less physical. He's a unique shooter and can ball. He definitely has a place in the league. But it's up to him to really show improvement in the preseason so he earns those opportunities
That really sucks about Dalton. I think we should have been more patient with him. Confidence is a real thing, these people are human beings, not robots. He had very good success early on in the season, at times looking like our next franchise player. Then when he got cold, he quickly fell out of the rotation, and we traded him. I think that might have messed the guy up. Now he needs a fresh start, and we are going to have to sell low.
Having been around sport for so long, the overwhelming majority of people don’t make the big leagues with absolutely no confidence. He can rebuild here, he just needs the playing time and a few hot games and the hype will be back.
I think he's most likely gone by the trade deadline but who really knows. Probably depends a bit on LaRavia's fit - I think he and Vando will get higher priority minutes over Dalton. But it's a good problem to have, really. I would like to see if he can develop here.
