I really hope we keep Wood, Tate and Jones. Would like to get rid of Gordon, Tucker, HOUSE. Everyone else keep unless the offer is good. I like every one of the young guys and don't want to get rid of them for late first rounders. You hope to get a Mason Jones type of steal late in the first round so it makes no sense to trade guys like that away if not for a All-Star type player.
Hypothetically, if the Warriors offered the Twolves first rounder ( top 3 protected in 2021, unprotected in 2022) for Wood, you don't take it?
Would Tilman go into the Luxury Tax this season for the first pick in the draft? That would be an entertaining scenario.
In the current climate of the NBA, Wood and Jones are completely off limits. No star good enough to dump them both would shake free, players like Beal don't even fit the criteria. We're talking a Jokic/Luka/Giannis star shaking free in order for those two to become available. The ideal situation would be to build around those two, and use our assets outside of them to add another star ala Beal/Mitchell caliber.
Then when you get those picks you draft players, then trade them for more picks. Don't keep anyone, have a G-League team, ruin Rockets reputation as a team to go to if you want to win. Let Silas a ticket stub in the game that says "future first". Or we can keep the players we think have potential, develop them, and try to acquire people in free agency and immediately become a playoff team. The teams that try to get a roster made up draft picks to make any noise usually stay that way for 10+ years. Phoenix has been a lottery team since the dawn of time and the only reason they are doing good is because a vet on max deal came in. There is nothing wrong with trying to get picks but you need to have a balanced team with free agency vets and drafted players. Maybe one team in 10 years who relies on picks will win the championship out of 1/3rd of the league at least per year trying to do so. Those are terrible odds.
