The Mavs gave up a 2027 1st round pick (barely protected) to swap Grant Williams for PJ Washington...I think they can go on a run this spring, and thought so before this trade actually. This feels like an insane amount of downside for marginal upside, regardless of how bad Grant has been.
Word. I'm not 100% sure that Washington is an upgrade over Bad Grant, nevermind with a first thrown in. It's shocking that they couldn't do better.
Why was Grant a terrible signing at the time? It was pretty much universally agreed that he was a good get at that salary
1. Yes, it was no surprise that Grant got signed at that number. Doesn't mean that he's that valuable of a player though.
2. His 3pt shooting, while still good, has regressed with more volume, and his defense has tanked.
Probably most of his defense tanking is how Dallas is using him, while the rest could very well be because that team is so bad defensively that it brings everyone's numbers down. But the couple of times that I've seen him play, he looks like his second season when he put all that weight on. Slow and unathletic.
I think that P.J. gives them more defensive flexibility in that he seems more capable of covering away from the basket than Grant right now, but it's a dropoff in shooting, which you can't have too much of with dual ball-dominant guards. This move is a head-scratcher for me.
