What would your reaction be if Brooklyn lands the #1 pick/Cooper Flagg?

Meh, Ime wouldn't play him anyway.

 

No regret for this one in terms of the swap

They keep Bridges and probably add other others and end up not one of the 5 or 6 worst team in the league. Without a reason to tank it's not too hard to build a mildly competitive roster. this was always a hedge on Phoenix imploding to create more draft/trade value long term, which I'm OK with.

However, I still think Stone failed to maximize value when he knew he had Brooklyn over a barrel.

 

I'm assuming SA and Dallas occupy those top 2 spots. As you said, the Nets would have tried to patch it together if they hadn't dealt Bridges.
No regrets on my end, considering the PHX picks are golden...most likely giving us Booker, and if not...something better.
Smart move on Stone's part...

 

No regret for the reasons you mentioned. My guess is they'd probably end up with about the same odds as the current Suns pick if they didn't trade away Bridges and other potential moves they would've made to "compete" before the inevitable

 

No regret. I rolled 10x on Tankathon today. Couple times the PHX ended #1

 

You said it in the end. Without the pick they would not have traded Bridges and could potentially make the playoffs.

In that case the Nets pick will be much worse than the Suns pick we have now. At least folks are having lots of fun tracking the pick right now.

If we’re playing the what-if game, what if Suns do not make the playoffs and end up with the #1 pick?

 

As long as Spurs do not land the #1 pick I'd be OK LOL

My hope is Rockets get #1 (1.5% chance, very high chance not going to happen)
Philly lands in top 4 so OKC does not get their pick
and Spurs do not move up

 

Life is full of regrets. I will add another one to the list.

 

My reaction would be perfectly reasonable. It would be that we need to fire Stone.

 

I'd have regret in any scenario where the Rockets don't get the top pick. It's just the facts of the game.

 

They never would have been a lottery team if Stone didn't make that deal, they'd have tried to win and probably went ~.500ish in a weak Eastern conference.

No regertz.

 

No regrets at all. The Nets were likely going to attempt to be competitive this year knowing they didn't have a damn reason to be terrible. Looking at 7 - 10 spots in the east, they likely could of made the play-in only to get bounced, but I definitely had no faith that we would of had much better odds with them not having anything to lose for.

 

If this bothers someone, respectfully I think they have some challenges with critical thinking.

It would have zero relationship to the counterfactual - what would've happened if we hadn't made the trade. Brooklyn is tanking because of the trade.

 

I didn't like the trade of the Nets picks for the Suns picks because there was no way that the Nets were passing up the haul they got for Bridges. They would have done that either way - the sunk cost fallacy in full display.

Having said that - I understand the logic behind why the Rockets did the deal, and believe it is also possible down the line that the Suns pick could be high lottery as well.

So - I will be upset - but it really falls into the "whatever" bin because we are just dealing in percentages anyway, and it is possible the Nets end up at #4-5 and get a player that would be #8 in most drafts.

I will say that having a 20% chance at Flagg or Harper would be really nice.

 

Butterfly effect for me. If we hadn’t made the trade, they would’ve almost certainly ended up with a different record.

I was reflecting on Stone’s pick maneuvering — and so far it has been incredibly fortunate. 2 of the 4 picks given to OKC in the Chris Paul trade will end up not conveying (the Jalen Green draft and this year’s swap). The other two were a late lotto pick in a weak draft and next year’s first — which should likely end up in the 20s.

We ended up getting a protected first from the Wizards back in the Westbrook trade, which was one of the two we used to get Sengun from OKC— and it looks like it won’t actually convey (and neither will the other). So the net impact of what seemed like a disastrous Paul trade was effectively a late lotto and a late first for Sengun.

Compare that to the picks in the Harden trade that have already yielded Reed Sheppard, Tari Eason, with another pick swap and the Suns assets still to come.

Right now, it looks like the swap of 2025 picks from Brooklyn to Phoenix will be about a 5 or so pick difference. Not bad to pick up two more picks with lotto potential that should have value to a team that will have to turn seller in the next couple years.

Edited to add — I didn’t love the deal at the time because I didn’t see this Phoenix implosion as high probability. I thought this year’s pick swap would be out of the money or marginal at best. It certainly looks better with hindsight.

 

Wouldn’t regret, because it’s a futile exercise. The Nets obviously would have made different moves absent their trade with us. Even had they still made the Bridges trade, they likely would have used those assets to improve, and wouldn’t have traded DFS, Dennis S., etc. I think they easily could have made the play-in at a minimum this season with a few buyer moves.

 

Go Rockets!!!
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No regerts, not even a letter.

 

LMMFAO!!