I’ll try Kid
First, Barrett, Bullock, Dotson, and Trier all are in line for minutes ahead of him at shooting guard. He can only play shooting guard. He’s been a great vet help and stabilizer through the team’s tumult so far. If he wants to be a player and not a Herb Williams, he could take a buyout giving us back what he’d get signing for the remainder for the minimum elsewhere.
Second, this is a far more likely and easier thing to do than trading him for an asset to get a team to absorb the back half of his 8 million dollar contract.
Third, you don’t hear any rumors of teams interested in Wayne Ellington on the deal he’s signed for as you do for Smith, Portis, and Morris.
Those are the main arguments for why waive Wayne.
What did carrying five shooting guards do to the rest of our roster?
First, we have one real center in Mitch, two fake centers in Bobby and Taj, and Randle who really needs to just be our power forward. We play all our bigs every game while three or four guards never see the floor. That’s the main argument for finding serviceable front court help.
Chriss is a young big with good tools who puts up promising numbers in short minutes and is worthy of a look based on his rebound and block rate, positive assist to TO ratio, shooting percentage, decent size, bounciness and good hands. Teach him what you can and if it takes, keep him at a low money deal, and if it don’t, let him walk with no regrets.