Top 4 pick or Bust!

Have the balls to gamble on the Nets being bad but not a top 4 pick on your own draft.

 

They’re currently tied with 2 other teams for the 5th worst record.

with different rosters every game and multiple games with most of the minutes bu guys I didn’t know existed 5 months ago.

Point being... it’s hard being that bad.

i don’t see it.

 

Even if we traded Wall/Oladipo/Boogie, our team is too hardworking to really get a top 4 pick plus Wood is really talented.

I think the plan is to roll with Oladipo/Wall this year and see how far it takes us.

I actually think this year is a good test run of our new team first ball movement philosophy. Oladipo/Wall may be less talented than Harden/Westbrook but they are also lower usage guys and better defenders.

Yes, we'd all like to have a superstar but I'd rather have Oladipo for $25MM than some other combination of scrubs. There is a minimum to the cap, so we have to pay somebody. I'd trade him for a good pick but he's worth more than a low first from a contender.

 

You can tank intentionally. You just have to be smart about it.

 

that’s true but Gordon won’t stay healthy. If we trade Tucker and Oladipo for picks that really just leaves Wall and Wood, which gives us a chance to tank.

 

Then we just have to be reallllllllly bad. Like buy john wall a trip to the bahamas. Give cousins a dirt bike and dare him to ride it through some greasy path. Let oladipo go to miami as soon as possible. Christian woods needs to get on the james Harden diet.

 

they almost went 2-0 with only one known quality nba player.

this is a bit of a stretch.

I would t be surprised if they were a bottom 4 team. I would t be surprised if the sneak into the nba playoffs.

hard to see how anyone can logically say anything else.

 

seriously. It wouldn’t have been the route I would have chosen, but Stone decided to trade Harden for picks. That means we are gambling on a full rebuild. We effectively already gave up on this season.

 

I think the league will do us a solid for letting Harden go to the Nets and then not backing out with the kidney thing. Westbrook to the East also helped the league. The balls behind the curtain will bounce our way. If we are in the lottery. Not first over all but 2 or 3. We will see.

 

Did you see Harden play like vintage Bird/Magic in his Nets debut? Might not ever be a player that talented again in the modern era.

 

We became a championship caliber team without ever tanking under Les. I see no reason to start now tbh. I’d love for someone to post an article explaining why tanking is productive. For every “Process” Sixers, there are plenty of Hawks, Kings, Hornets, Bulls, Knicks, Grizzlies and Twolves who are just bad forever with nothing to show for it.

 

the thing is, Oladipo Basically 29 and Wall is 30. They both have a legacy of injuries and we aren’t contending anytime soon. So I don’t see how they fit a rebuild. I agree that we don’t want to trade assets to move guys but I don’t see how staying competitive makes more sense than trying to get a top 4 pick

 

Yeah I wouldn't trade them if it costs us picks, but we are definitely bad enough to tank. We have the 5th worst record in nba right now.

 

Time to find that Correa/Bregman type pick.

 

I think your sleeping on this team fam, what u see now is now the end product.. after the trade deadline we gone know what we really working with, and it's not in the Rockets nature to Tank.. I believe were gonna be a team that compete and is gonna be a tuff out, all them low picks don't always pan out, we hold the keys to Brooklyn future so why Tank, we need the players we have now to get better every game and not waist there talent.

 

I’m seeing a lot “spirit of the game” type energy and it’s really not productive to making a championship contender.