Trading Dion this early means its clearly a fail on Mike Brown, especially if you're in the group of support for Chris Grant. A season in a half and you're already wanting to trade the 4th overall pick in the draft. Talk about knee-jerk reaction. That begs to ask the question why the fuck did we draft him?
When you have a very young team like we do, and things go bad, they REALLY go bad. Tempers flare, guys get moody, guys that might have been approachable, become unapproachable, and it just becomes a trickle down effect. I get it, things can go off the rails fast.
If we want to go on past history alone with Dion Waiters, just look at his stint with Syracuse. He went there and wanted to start, Boeheim said no. He pouted, he clashed against Boeheim, and thought about transferring. Boeheim put him in his place, but did it in a way that he could still get through to Dion. He's proven alone that Dion can be approachable. It worked, Dion finally embraced his role, and helped make Syracuse a top ranked team in the country.
That doesn't sound like a problem child incapable of getting through to. Maybe a problem child, but one that you put under the right guidance can be managed and salvaged.
Kyrie is a mess, Dion is a mess. But both of them haven't been given the chance to be put with a guy capable of making it work.