Pels *allegedly* thinking Zion extension/win now strategy

…..I hate this franchise

looks like i won't be paying attention to this team next year either....

Its the worst possible scenario, so ofcourse it's what Dumars is gonna do.

Fire JT, Hire Ham, extend Zion, then trade Poole and Herb and multiple firsts to upgrade this sorry arse roster.

On one hand, 30-35 per year is about what he's worth nowadays. But on the other hand, you can never trust him to stay healthy while maximizing his production/impact.

Looks like they are going to gamble on him and I don't really have any interests anymore especially knowing their next coaching selection will probably anchor the team just as much for the foreseeable future.

Either way, I'm not really surprised.

If this happens just send the team to Mexico or wherever the frick.

I mean Jesus Christ…

Zion upon hearing the news.

If dj can turn queen and his conditioning and post defense into something mediocre, we can make some noise with him on the bench.

We have 4 young guys who need to show immense growth in the next year.

Missi - can he be a true anchor defensively for 25+mpg?
Fears - can he be a 30mpg combo guard who shoots and facilitates well enough?
Matkovich - can he be a 3&D big man?
Queen - can his conditioning be good enough to warrant 20+ mpg as a backup 4 and 5 depending on the lineup?

Poole needs to be moved this off-season.
Murray needs to be moved in a year (for year 3 fears to start).

Jones and Murphy need to be moved to build up assets even though I hate to do it to keep zion.

Bey needs to be retained or traded, he's got value it appears right now. Is he a true 3 or a small ball 4?

I don’t have the energy. If this team is gonna extend Zion and keep him in the starting lineup, I might need to find a different team to keep up with instead. Maybe LSU MBB or LSU baseball, idk.

So they throw away a chance at a great player in the next draft for Queen, only to keep Queen on the bench. This is a small market team, no great player on a different team wants to play for. You build through the draft and develop. Now they wanna use draft capital again to move off Poole. I’d rather use draft capital to move off Zion if they giving up draft picks.

This team has no #1 NBA level player. They are doing everything to keep it that way.

2 games left and right now this team has only 2 players with atleast 100 threes made. 80 games played and Zion still has one 3 pointer made. Now I gotta read rumors of an extension….

These are the moves you get with an incompetent owner. It takes a potential catastrophe to get everyone to agree, but many of you will go back to sunshine pumping similar to the unprotected 1st fiasco.

Move this team.

$30 - $35 million is a pay cut and wouldn't be so bad with an increasing cap and some cheaper guys cheaper but growing role guys like Queen and Fears. But I dont think Zion bites on that so this could all just be posturing ("we tried in good faith to offer Zion an aggressive amount of value but he wants to play this out").