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Message: [QUOTE="Melancer46, post: 5603356, member: 1674"] I think pretty much everyone should be interested in acquiring him, especially if you believe the media that nobody is really offering anything of value for him in these trade talks lol. Having said that, I'd add as other potential issues to consider (and maybe to a degree it's actually a good thing): Giannis' defensive effort this season has been nowhere near his norm and at times has been embarrassingly bad. Entirely possible that he's just exhausting himself on offense and doesn't have the energy to play consistent defense given the level of creation Milwaukee is asking him to do, but also possible he's just sort of entering that phase of his career where he's starting to coast more on defense to save his body. He's also basically indicated that the creation burden he's taken on this season is his preference; Milwaukee won the title by getting him to buy in to playing more as a screener/play finisher rather than the initial creator and I think for some teams that could potentially be interested in him, that's probably how they'd want to play him. But maybe he's just not interested in that anymore, who knows really. On the flipside, I feel like people like to make a couple arguments against him all the time: (1) that he's hard to build a team around because you need every other player on the team to be a shooter and (2) that he won't age well because his game is reliant on freakish athleticism. I tend to disagree with both of those arguments. Sure, it's probably best if everyone around him can shoot, but that's basically how everyone tries to build their teams these days anyways. We won the title with Jrue being basically incapable of making a jumpshot the entire postseason and PJ Tucker just standing in a corner doing nothing/attracting zero defensive attention all game. As long as you have SOME shooting, Giannis will make it work because he basically forces you to have at least 1 or 2 help defenders collapsing on his drives or it'll generally be an easy 2 points for him. And to the latter, I just don't think that's an accurate depiction of his game. It's not like he's prime Blake Griffin where he was just jumping 40 inches off the ground and dunking everything. Giannis mostly gets to the rim because he has good footwork, good strength, and barely has to jump to dunk the ball; none of those things are likely to disappear anytime soon. I also tend to think it works in the opposite way too. The better athletes age better because they can lose some athleticism and still be a good athlete, whereas the guys that are skilled enough to overcome being a poor athlete lose some athleticism and become unplayable because they just can't keep up on defense anymore. If Giannis begins to suffer multiple catastrophic injuries that suddenly make him a legitimately poor athlete, then yeah, he's probably toast, but that goes for basically all NBA players and *knock on wood*, he hasn't had any of those injuries yet. [/QUOTE]

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