forget all the vet pg trades bring me acuff on a silver platter i love reed but i am ready to move him for acuff i am willing to give up as much as reed and the nets 27 pick for acuff (and even work with the clips/nets on a s&t of tari if they want) reasons reed is going into his 3rd year if he becomes great we have to pay him in 2 years we can only lux tax so many times b4 we have to get under because the repeater tax is prohibitive if reed becomes mid we lose trade value and we are capped out likely still in the tax with less trade flexibility if reed fails we lose our possible window of contention i still think reed is going to be great still fully believe in him but acuff acuff is a better prospect and he would have 4 seasons on rookie scale one year tutoring with fred then hand him the keys acuff has that ability to dance with the ball that reed does not have he can get anywhere on the court and hang out there if he wants with the live dribble one thing i love about stone, he values LOW TURNOVER% players stone understands what i understand high turnover playmakers make winning a championship odds very very very very very low that's why fred is great its what makes fred great acuff is already that he already understands the game at a very high level bball iq off the charts acuff has cp3 level bball iq you can hear him talk it you can see it in his decision making acuff is bigger than fred but he has that same lower cog and he wants to defend not worried about his defense fred is the perfect mentor for him i don't see anybody in the 27 draft that would be better than acquiring this engine and i think he may be gettable at 6 or possibly 5 for me in my humble opinion this is the swing i want not jb or giannis or some other monster trade landlocking both our future assets and our cap flexibility gimme 4 years of acuff on a rookie deal there is simply no way he does not perform offensively unless he is injured and you cannot predict injuries (that is why I am in favor of moving bari in the right deal because we need salary cap and trade flexibility until we can truly compete with the thunder/spurs/knicks/whoever) if we cannot acquire acuff then i want ben stirtz on a lesser deal maybe bari and our lower 27 pick for stirtz and an expiring contract (or just the cap space back) would be great if it was just bari for stirtz and we get cap space back to work with in free agency stirtz is a dawg a horse plays massive minutes same qualities acuff has but older great shooter great playmaker pnr savant like acuff low to% supposedly weak defensively i don't care he is a dawg he will d up he will learn the defensive end i do not want to trade for giannis or jb and get sucked into long term big money on guys that either have holes in their game or they are getting older and they have sucked down our assets pile and cap flexibility none of those proposed trades make any sense alpi? you want to move him when you just seen how to beat wemby? ridiculous alpi is an improved 3 point shot away from giving wemby hell all over the court forget moving alpi make it work around him and amen with shooting, defense, and another playmaker like acuff or stirtz and keep the rest of our asset pile and cap flexibility
I’ve been beating the Acuff drum for months. He’s a guaranteed All Star. as I said in the other thread, okc has all the young talent in the world. What are they doing? Trying to move up into the high lotto to nab another young star. Because good organizations know u have to keep taking swings on young talent in the draft. They don’t sit out drafts, especially not back to back drafts. wtf are we doing? We are not in a position to sit out back to back drafts. This is simply not defensible. Clown show!
