I don't get why we keep hearing about this Valentine/Sabonis pipe dream. Valentine will likely kill it in his pre-draft workouts because he's a high IQ player with an all-around offensive game. Projecting where he's going to go in this draft is going to be a huge risk. You'd have to at least trade into the 11-12 spot to limit that risk. What do we get out of the trade? Can we potentially dump Asik in the process? Ajinca? Multiple picks doesn't seem overly likely unless you are looking at 13/28 from Phoenix.

I'll play around with some scenarios if we want to target Valentine.

6 and Ajinca for 12 and Trey Burke
6 and Ajinca for 11 and Shabazz Napier
6 and Ajinca for 13/28

Buying low on 2 potential rookie PGs who haven't panned out. Burke at least showed improvement last year. We manage to get out from under Ajinca's contract which was made a little more palatable towards the end of last season.

Regardless, if Kris Dunn/Buddy Hield are there, I'm not quite sure why you gamble on going after Valentine. But that's my personal opinion.

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Posted by TigerinATL

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Posted on 5/2/16 at 10:42 am to ShamelessPel

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I don't get why we keep hearing about this Valentine/Sabonis pipe dream.

Because there's nothing else to talk about, we won't even know if they're going to fire the GM or not for another week or so.

Getting both together is a pipe dream, but getting Valentine and a big or Sabonis and a wing aren't. The point was you've got your 3 core players, so you'd be better off doing a 2 for 1 depth play rather than drafting a guard at 6 that will be under used because of how Gentry would probably use Batum.

This post was edited on 5/2/16 at 10:43 am

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