Lol revisionist history abound in here.
The Hamilton trade was larceny. I don't know how you can argue otherwise. Sure Barzal was on the board, but he wasn't even picked with any of the picks we traded, who knows if we would have taken him (lol, unlikely given our history of picking out talent like that). Hamilton is the cornerstone of our defense moving forward. I also think his "defensive deficiencies" are entirely overblown- they're a result of the guy playing top competition with gio under a microscope, while simultaneously not having any of the faith of the coaching staff (who seem to bury him whenever possible)
Gio makes some dumb mistakes too- no one climbs all over him for them. It's the reality of playing high speed against the best players in the world.
Brodie makes far worse decisions, and I think has proven to be harder to cover for. Hamonic has been passing the eye test with flying colours lately and that pair still seems to suck. I personally would make the hamonic trade over again too.
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