Flight

It kills me that so many are so heavily Pro-Doncic but Anti-Trae.

Nah, I'm pretty sure we would just be taking Bamba at #7.

I disagree, I know plenty that like Doncic and Young both. From an ownership standpoint I'm pretty sure they'd wanna market Doncic over Trae for international appeal.

I'd be more than happy if we came out of this draft with Doncic and Bamba. That would be a dream scenario basically.

I'm pretty sure we got a lottery pick for Jeff Teague (in his late 20's) with Dennis still on the roster. It's definitely possible to trade a 24 year old Dennis, his off the court issues may make it more difficult but not impossible. I'm fine with us getting Trae.

Honestly I'd take that deal, you can do a ton with all those picks and Fultz could easily become something special.

You acting like Doncic can't fit in the same category lol

If that's true ownership should fire Schlenk, this is ridiculous. So they should fire him for doing his job? lol

I'm definitely down to get Trae, especially if we swing a deal that lands us more assets for the future

I just hope more posters get that understanding, because regardless who we get they at least deserve some time to prove themselves before we all go overboard with the critical opinions.

I’m just wondering why so many are so sure of themselves on a lot of these guys before anyone’s played at all. Draft night you really can’t judge anything.

I’m not saying he’d be darko in a sense that they got similar situations coming in from a basketball standpoint. Idk, I’m just no so sure he’s as safe a bet as people act like he is. Especially the way we talk about him in comparison to others. Something just doesn’t feel so safe to me.

If we choose Doncic and he’s a bust I’m gonna be really disappointed in y’all.

I guess this means we won’t be taking a shot at LeBron smh..

You giving up on Schlenk before any of them have even played a game yet? Lol

Does the fact that Doncic isn’t still in consideration for #1 not bother everyone on the Doncic hype train? They even got his coach. I’m not sure if I’m more sold on him than any of the other top prospects (excluding JJJ and maybe MPJ in comparison to the rest)

I like Doncic but I just hope we don’t get Darko’d in the long run because of all this hype..

As long as he's playing well I'm fine with it lol

I don't think I can really judge him having "fight" on defense from college, his role was too important on offense to even allow him to be THAT committed on D. I'm just saying his size won't be as significant of a problem as some make it out to be. It's more on effort than physical limitation. CP wasn't always a good one on one defender, he racked up a lot of steals in college but he wasn't super aggressive on D. His team overall was bad defensively. He had better instincts than Trae does on D but it goes to show that size isn't the end all be all with defense for PGs.

People had the same size complaints about Chris Paul and Trae is bigger than he was. Defensively he just has to want to get better, he'll have more energy because his offensive usage won't be as high. Turnover wise I think that was just a product of his insanely high usage, he had the ball more possessions than anyone. I think he'll be fine in the league as long as he has the right coaching.

I just don't know who I'd even want now. I'd be thrilled with any of the three of Doncic, Bamba or Trae. All for different reasons, I know Trae is probably the least lowest on most people's boards but he would make our team sooooo much more interesting to watch next year. It's a difficult choice really.

I'm torn

Completely agree with this. There are so many variables that are not controllable when building a team. Especially dealing with drafting players. You can do all the research you want but when they get into the league it's an entirely different ball game. There's no realistic guaranteed way to make your team a championship contender in one off-season. Takes a good amount of the right things just happening at the right time.

So what exactly are we looking to do?

I thought of this, but that'd make it weird that he would leave the suns off lol