#1 - Draft Chet Holmgren #17 - Draft Tari Eason/Trade #17 + EGo for Jalen Johnson *Trade Wood + Tate for Myles Turner + SRP OR #3 - Draft Jabari Smith Jr. #17 - Draft Mark Williams or trade down draft Walker Kessler *Trade EGo + Tate + 2024 FRP (unprotected) for Jalen Johnson + 2023 FRP (lottery Protected)
I want to raid the SEC 1st Team: First Bari Then Tari Last Kessler Then I want to target 2 key vet additions: PG - strong on-ball defender and hits open 3s C - long rim protector and hits open 3s Targets: PIPDREAMs PG - Dejounte Murray C - Jonathan Isaac REALISTICs PG - Marcus Smart C - Myles Turner PLAN Bs PG - Ricky Rubio C - Mo Bamba LATE ROOKs PG - Trevor Keels C - Austin Kessler
Put on your I survived Sex with Amber Heard Sweatshirt and Hoodie, kick back, and let come what may. But we'll be out 10 million before the night is over.
Chet and Dyson Daniels. I think Daniels can be really good, and allow us to go with a three guard lineup for parts of the game. I think he's defense will end up being pretty good. Here him with a defensive big like Chet, and I think this team has some good switch ability and the ability to defend and score at will.
This has been my dream for months! But my hot take is that Mark Williams will be drafted in the lotto - ahead of Duren (and he should be, because his game is better suited to the NBA).
Draft or trade up for jabari or Chet. If we don’t come out the draft with either I’ll be pretty disappointed in Stones aggressiveness. I already like Stone more than I ever did Morey Draft another 6’7+ wing with the Nets pick to compete with kJ for the starting job I think our forward situation is the most obvious problem on the team. I’m cool with letting our guards ride it out one more year but we’ve been chasing a real power forward it seems like a decade
If the Rockets land Paulo do you still think you’ll be disappointed? I honestly don’t think you can go wrong with either of the top 4 prospects.
I think we can pull off a series of moves to move up into the draft and target a pick in the 5-7 range. 1) 3 team deal - Cavs get #17 and tate, NYK gets #14 and MIL 23 pick, HOU gets #11 3) #11 and wood, for #5-7 whoever bites target Murray, Sharpe, griffin, mathurin, or Sochan, depending on who we draft first. I would love jabari/banchero with Griffin or chet and Sharpe. ivey with Sochan. another way of going about it... 1) 3 team deal - CHA gets wood, NYK gets #13 and tate, HOU gets #11 and Oubre 2) #11, #17, MIL '23 pick for #5-7 whoever bites. I understand a lot of this seems like an overpay, but it illustrates that they should be realistic opportunities there. and I'm also willing to overpay a bit to consolidate assets into fewer more valuable assets.
Haven't decided on particular players yet, but Stone moves EG or Wood +17 in a package for a 2nd top 10 pick. With the youth and inexperience on full display, the team lands another top 10 pick next year before landing a marquee FA and competing for the playoffs in 2024. 4 top ten picks, Sengun, JC, +vet FA or two will have us back on the map after a 3 year rebuild.
Banchero + any one of Sochan/Eason/Brown/Dieng/Liddell or PBJ (without convoluting things with trade scenarios)
It's not the talent, it's the skill set. Janari, Ivey, and Chet all play defense and Paulo doesn't. We have a mediocre offense and are dead last in defense. Quickest way to improve is on the defensive side.
I agree. I'm sure Banchero will be a very good player in the NBA--perhaps even an All-Star--but the way this team is constructed we need to address the defense deficiency first. Having two core players (Green and Banchero) with bad defense is not going to make it an easy rebuild...and this isn't including my favorite guy (Sengun) as a core player which would make three below average to average defenders.
I see your point, I was more referring to Paulo. I think adding Paulo wouldn’t be and disappointment. The only true building block in my opinion is Green. I would guess the front office would do the same as they did last year and draft “there” best player available rather then fit. So I think Paulo will definitely be in play, specially if they think he has the highest upside. So I lean more towards drafting the BPA overall and worry about fit afterwards. So any of the 4 top prospects would be great additions.
Two things - On Green, I think eventually he becomes a plus defender. He's so quick & rangy, it won't be too long before he figures it out. He's not there yet but I think we all expected this team to be terribly bad defensively with 4 rookies getting extended minutes. He and the team improved significantly over the course of the season. On Sengun, I can't see him surviving long term in the league as a 5 mainly because he can't defend the position, NBA "Big Men" feast on his lack of size. He's gonna have to play the 4 spot, at least defensively .... Ideally he improves his 3 ball and plays as a forward & you have a bigger, more athletic 5 defending the post / rim.
Fair point on Sengun but i think the huge 5 like a Shaq or Jokic are more the exception now. Most centers tend to be rim runners and pick/roll guys like Capela, Allen, Robinson, Carter, etc.
Those are fair points. I don't expect or hope that Green stays the way he is as a defender but I don't see him being any more than an average defender moving forward. That's not a dig on Jalen; just looking at how other players within his comparisons (the Lavines, the Beals, the Bookers, the Anthony Edwards, etc.) have fared after their respective rookie seasons. Even if Green becomes that average defender in the backcourt you still need defenders up front and both Jabari and Chet are already better defenders than Paolo. Sengun..just like @Landry's Tooth said...the NBA today don't have giants roaming in the paint like days of yore. My expectation isn't for Sengun to clamp down Embiid or KAT because that's kind of unrealistic. Sengun is a very smart player and, yes, his height could be a detriment but he's close in size to a Sabonis and he's what I would consider an average defender. If Sengun can just be "average" on defense that's huge for his career moving forward.
Ideal draft would be No.1 Pick traded for No.2 and 2 future FRPs. No. 2 Draft Chet (or Jabari if Chet is gone). Murray gets selected by another team prior to Paolo for comedic effect. Rockets use a future FRP(s) to trade up and get either Griffin, Mathurin, Sochan, Daniels, or Eason. A late FRP is traded for a future SRP or cash to another team to see the Tilman is cheap/Stone incompetent meltdown on this board. I'd much rather have Sengun give up size at the 5 than have to guard more mobile 4s.
