by rise on Sat Jul 08, 2017 12:27 pm
Little late here, but we traded severely negative value (3 years of an expensive Plumlee who does fuck all, and 1 year of Marco Bellinelli who actively hurt us last year). Even if we're only getting a rebounding specialist who doesn't do a whole lot on offense, and just does enough to get by on defense, we've already got a starting center in Cody Zeller who has already proven himself to be a roughly average starting center. I've been saying to my friends that even if Howard never played a single game for us, we'd still win the deal for shaving off a year of Plumlee's contract, since we're capped out till Dwight's contract expires anyway.
My expectations for Dwight aren't high, and I expect Zeller to eventually start ahead of him later on this season, but I'm happy because no matter how bad Dwight can be, he's better than the crap we had at backup center last year.