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This board has made me despise all center prospects because we can never talk about them reasonably. It's either "he's a bum" or "he's God's gift to basketball" lol. Every time lol.

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Very good point. I wonder how the battery would have worked if the Braves were still in the "Freddie Freeman and no one else" years.

I just hope we're all bracing ourselves to run it back with one signing like the ghost of PJ Tucker or something lol. The odds of that happening are way too high.

Yeah the only way this makes any sense is if you get a star in return. JJ is great, but he is not close to being "the" guy.

We do this with almost every year a "special" big man prospect pops up. People get obsessed and derail most other discussions with "Player X is the truth".

You do the opposite of this though. It's been a month and you won't acknowledge that there is anything remotely limiting to Edys game, either. I am with campster. This discussion needs to die. It flows over into damn near every thread on this board. Pick it up after Summer League.

Supes has a mancrush like never before on Edy, so I don't know if you will get an unbiased take about this

"We absolutely think Trae and DJ pair well together. The rest of our roster might need some retooling to maximize the pairing to its full extent, but that is work we are certainly willing to do and look forward to continuing our efforts to build a championship roster this offseason" How damn hard is that?

Landry has done nothing to dispel that and in my eyes, his post deadline comments only hurt our standing even further. He seems way too honest for his own good.

And there was the instagram/twitter/whatever DMs where he was NOT happy. I'm not saying any of it was real. All I said was it didn't help anything and Landry did absolutely nothing to tone down that narrative. Y'all got me over here wondering if Im the only one that remembered that happened lol

It doesn't really matter for what we're talking about? I'm not sure what your point is lol. All the reports of "DJ WANTS OUT" around the deadline also screwed up the compensation. That's the point.

Not sure if serious or not? I'm not arguing against the actual reality of that statement, but there was definitely "DJ wants out" floating all through the media at the deadline.

Yup. Plus the "DJ is a malcontent" stuff. I'm not trying to blame it all on Landry by any means, but everyone above Quin has been doing a pretty poor job all around for a while now. The nuance of being a GM is part of the job. You can't be bad at the nuance and then expect zero blame when you don't get the job done. They've gotta be better.

When you word it as "Jedi mind tricks" I'd have to say no lol. But I do think it falls somewhere much closer to the middle than you are saying. A good GM gets good deals. There are "how the hell did you get that for him?" deals every season. I'll give an example of what I mean from a previous sales job. The boss man loved to say "This is a sales job. Not a customer service job. If you only make deals with people that do all the work for you, you aren't doing your job". Does Landry need to Jedi mind trick the Lakers to be a good GM? No. But if he goes every offseason just saying "Argh, nobody wants to give me anything close to reasonable", well, hes not doing his job. He needs to find and negotiate good deals. That is his job.