Last season we were 1 game out of the 3 seed around the trade deadline.

This season we were the 4 seed with about 3 weeks to go in the season.

The opportunity clearly presented itself these past 2 seasons, we did nothing to capitalize on it. We actually went the other way and made moves to avoid the tax and giving up multiple draft picks to do so.

There's a very logical argument that if we made a move to get better and thus go into the tax before last season's deadline, that we would have been a top 6 seed in each of these last 2 seasons.

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Posted by Mickey Goldmill

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Posted on 4/24/24 at 10:40 am to shel311

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Last season we were 1 game out of the 3 seed around the trade deadline.

This season we were the 4 seed with about 3 weeks to go in the season.

The opportunity clearly presented itself these past 2 seasons, we did nothing to capitalize on it. We actually went the other way and made moves to avoid the tax and giving up multiple draft picks to do so.

There's a very logical argument that if we made a move to get better and thus go into the tax before last season's deadline, that we would have been a top 6 seed in each of these last 2 seasons.

At the trade deadline last year, Brandon Ingram had already missed most of the season, we just finished a 10 game losing streak, and Zion was hurt about a month before that (never to return).

With the repeat tax rules in place now, you don't jump into the tax until you feel you have a shot at a title (unless you are a big market franchise that pays it every single year).

In no way was that last year around the trade deadline.

This post was edited on 4/24/24 at 10:42 am

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