Trade Breakdown

Bucks: Dennis Schroeder

Raptors: Pat Connaughton, AJ Green, 2024 POR SRP, 2027 MIL SRP

This move is pretty risky for Milwaukee, but I think it would be perfect for them. Back-court defense is one of the worst parts of the Bucks team and Schroeder is an immediate and somewhat cheap fix for that. Of course, both of these SRPs have the potential to be high SRPs, but the Bucks are desperate to win now. But, at the moment I have a hard time even putting them above the 76ers or Heat, let alone the Celtics. Connaughton has not been getting much minutes this year with Milwaukee. He could be a sniper off the bench for another team, but he's not what the Bucks need right now. Schroeder, for the Bucks should also be a good backup PG when Damian Lillard is off the court. This season, he has been averaging 6.9 APG, which is very solid even though he's had to play a lot of minutes to get to there. Having Giannis to pass to will only help that. This is still quite a risk by the Bucks, but this move can be the move that gets them through the Eastern Conference in the playoffs. Right now, any guard can cook them. This should hopefully change that. Even if it doesn't change that too much, at the very least it gives them some guard depth. In my opinion, this should be a no-brainer for Toronto once they get another young guard in the return for Pascal Siakam. Schroeder simply does not fit the timeline of Toronto's rebuild and will just be taking minutes that other players will need to develop properly. The potential of the two SRPs are great, making this very hard to decline for the Raptors.

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