re: So which prospects in the top 10 can shoot or rim protect?

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What centers would even be available? Porzingis Capela Vucevik Turner Are any of those really needle movers? Would a deal of Ingram straight up for Ayton be worth considering? Not sure how Ingram fits with KD and it enables the Suns with a giant hole but they’d get off Ayton and his contract. Porzingis I guess fits but he’s fragile as shite too. Turner but would Indiana want to trade him?

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No, they wouldn’t

That’s why you don’t give up a top 10 pick for a marginal improvement that will create cap issues in a season or two.

I feel like every year we have a contingency of posters advocating the old Demps model of trading any top ten pick for non-all star players as if that will turn an oft-injured non contender into one.

It won’t.

This team needs to draft well and make smart moves in FA to move out guys that don’t fit and bring in role players that do.

CJ/BI/Zion are your core at least through the next season and the goal should be drafting a future starter or guy you can develop or sell and put a team around the core that compliments them as opposed to what we have now, which is a bunch of guys that are at odds with what our best players are best at.

Using a top 10 pick to get off bad contracts would be absolutely fricking criminal, and Griff should be fired before allowed to go through with it.