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The next Stan Kasten

I have confidence Quin could get peak performance from BI and it would make a significant net gain compared to what we’ve been working with. BI last five years hawks by comparison

Hawks just watched the Falcons draft and decided to draft a PG in the lottery.

I want Jones, Murphy, and/or BI. Since BI is the most available, I’d be more than happy to get him. I wanted him before he signed his latest contract because I knew he was it. He fits positionally better than DJM. We need wing depth, and we don’t need DJM and Trae back court. Kill two birds with one stone. Contract wise, you can’t compare the two. Yeah Murray’s is on a better deal for relatively similar stats, but 6’1” pgs aren’t as in demand as big wings are right now. Gimme.

So the NBA is a restricted free agent now.

Updated my big board a little now that we know we get one pick in the lottery. Fine tune it once we find out what pick we will get. Zaccharie Risacher, SG/SF Alexandre Sarr, PF/C Donovan Clingan, C Cody Williams, SF/PF Kyle Filipowski, PF/C Matas Buzelis, SF Ron Holland, SF Zach Edey, C Kel’el Ware, C Yves Missi, C Dalton Knecht, SG/SF Reed Sheppard, PG Johnny Furphy, SF Stephon Castle, PG Tristan da Silva, SF/PF Tyler Smith, PF Ryan Dunn, PF (More than the 14 lotto picks, but leaving a little wiggle room in case we trade down in this draft)

JJ reading that headline

Zig while others zag, my brother.

But what about his podcast?!

This effin thread, man.

I’d want a whole lot more if we’re trading him within our division.

We also often don’t trade players at the best time. Either we trade when their value is low, or when other teams know our back is against the wall and have to accept whatever crap we can just so we don’t walk away empty handed. They could have gotten a lot more from JC if they traded him the for year he was on the block instead of the third year when he just finished the worst year of his career thanks to the finger injury. Jazz bought low and it paid off for them.

I can’t be mad at this pick, but we really don’t need a guard from this draft.

At least we won’t also be paying 60 million for our backcourt too!

*Cue Supes’ combine sprint numbers I mean, I get it. It’s not the preferred pace of play, but at the same time, we need options. We can’t count on OO to do it all. 1) We can’t keep giving it up to other teams’ oafs. 2) Pace slows down in the playoffs and reliable scoring options are required. Edey can provide that. He can be a good option even if he’s not the best option.

I agree. The biggest problem with Hunter and his value here is there is no one capable of backing him up or replacing him if he’s hurt or traded. Unless they move JJ to more SF, but then we have the same issue at PF. I wouldn’t mind if we moved him, but we need to go after more than one player to replace him. BI is a good start, but we would need a capable back up. Honestly, BI starting and Hunter backing him up off the bench may actually be the best scenario. Both are injury prone and both are capable of starting when the other misses time.

And he also had a 24 pt/25 rb game against us. When Andre freaking Drummond can do that to you, you need help. It’s situational. We need size bc we don’t have it now. No one drafted this year is going to be starting for us. I'm not saying Edey is the best option, but to dismiss him so hard is a little over the top IMO. I would take an OO/Edey/Bruno rotation over a OO/CC/Bruno rotation any day. I’ll be happy if we walk away with Clingan (top choice), Sarr, Filip, Edey, or Ware. All of these guys could contribute year one on a limited basis. Maybe even Missi, but moreso if we trade down for him bc he will take a year or two before he can contribute.

Hopefully he goes to NO, a WC team with better assets than PHX. ORL would never give up the ransom that would make it worth trading him there for us to play against all the time.

Another thing Bulls liked to do was bring in Drummond to dump the ball into the paint, which we had no answer for. Edey and OO are both situational players. Edey to go against the big oafs who camp in the paint, and OO for the stretch bigs. It’s not an either/or thing where we only want 7’ centers, it’s about having options. And right now between OO, CC, and Bruno, we have no options against big boys. OO = primary and stretch 5 Edey = Big big 5 Bruno = 3rd string 5 CC = dead weight

Great. That helps.

They’d have to land pretty squarely in the lottery and outside the play ins to feel comfortable with rolling the dice to tank. Is 2025 the last year for it to be a 1rp before it converts to 2rps? If so, then yeah, they’d probably be more open to gamble.

I believe Ressler will go over the luxury tax line, but only in the last 12-18 months before he plans to sells the team. He’ll want to pump up the value of the team, but sell before he’s on the hook to pay repeater tax charges. In a completely unrelated note, how’s that development of his brother’s coming along?

It seems like they were tanking forever and it is JUST NOW starting to pay off. By the time they may be able to actually achieve anything, they’re going to have to let players go bc they can’t pay everyone to stay in OKC. I'd like to actually see them win something before admitting what they’ve done is the right way. They’re still living life high on hype/hope/potential fumes.

Hell, even if you are lucky enough to draft a player like that it doesn’t guaranteed you anything. Shaq never won anything in Orlando.

What’s the point? How would it be any better or different when we still have the same FO and ownership that created this current situation? We would just end up with a younger, cheaper and worse version of what we have now.