re: Siakam to Pacers, Kira to Raps, Pels send 2nd

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well if our dumbass GM wouldn't have given a 1st round pick away just to sign a FA, then we would have had the 15th pick too, which just so happened to be Mark Williams.

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In the past 5 years, how many GM's would you say have done a better job than Griff with drafting? Throw in trades if you want too.

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During the IST press conference with Zion and BI, Zion implied Naji and Jose were his best friends on the team. If that's the case, I'd rather just keep Naji than disrupt the locker room midseason especially because Zion is kinda fragile mentally.

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What are the cliques on the team?

Who are BI guys and who are Zion's?

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Jaxson Hayes: 8th overall pick/not resigned or extended Nickell Alexander Walker: 17th overall pick/trade filler Kira Lewis, Jr.: 13th overall pick/cost 2nd round pick to trade Devonte Graham: cost 15th overall pick to get/cost four 2nd round picks to trade

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Don’t forget signing Derrick Favors, JJ Reddick, trading for Eric Bledsoe and Steven Adams, shipping out Bledsoe and Adams the very next season, getting nothing for Lonzo, signing darius miller to a two year deal for $15,000,000, signing Nicolo Melli and hiring Stan Van gundy.

Pretty much everything this front office did between the Zion pick and the 2021 draft was a terrible move.

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In the past 5 years, how many GM's would you say have done a better job than Griff with drafting? Throw in trades if you want too.

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What does that have to do with his dumbass S&T that wasn’t necessary to include a 1st to sign Graham. Charlotte must have laughed their asses off once Griff agreed to give them a first.
The same idiot gave Lonzo away for nothing basically, and Chicago had no way of signing him without the S&T so they were desperate, unlike us with Charlotte.
That was terrible and a waste of two 1st round picks.

And finding Herb and Naji and Jose is pure luck, not drafting.

Hayes, NAW, Kira, Trey, Dyson, Hawkins.
No one is going to complain about that.
But don’t act like just b/c we’ve drafted well the last three drafts now he’s a great GM. He’s still a lying idiot that thinks he’s smarter than people that actually know basketball and has wasted a ton of our assets.

The thing I like about Griffin is that he admits his mistakes and tries to fix them. Raptors held onto OG and Siakam too long, they would’ve gotten better pieces if they were traded last year.

We also needed a defensive guard too. Remember cp3 went perfect against us in the playoffs game.

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I don't like playing what if when it comes to the NBA draft, but A LOT of people liked Tyrese Maxey, and many wanted us to get back in late in the draft to get Bane.

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I liked Maxey a lot, but it was a missed opportunity by Griff to not get Haliburton when he started sliding down the draft. He should have been trying to trade up a couple spots. The Suns reached on their pick and would have made a great spot. But Griff apparently wasn’t high on Haliburton. Still pisses me off to this day, was super high on him.

Really dint know what they saw in Kira other than he was fast.

Pels have started going after older players in the draft, which has worked out incredibly every time over the last couple of years.

I’m not sure I’ll be around in 3030, so IDGAF one way or the other…

IMO, if you need a superstar, you swing for the fences on a young guy with potential. If you already have face of the franchise players, you draft older guys that can fit a role around those players. Jaxson Hayes was a swing for the fences guy based on his potential, while Trey was an established guy that fit a role that we needed.