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He knows that: 1) He will be in a contract year 2) He will have a greenlight to chuck 3) we will be bad He is going to absolute try to score score score to get that next deal

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Yeah, I’m concerned he’s going to be more worried about getting his rather than playing team basketball

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I'm not really that sure we should be ahead of Sacramento either. This franchise is a fricking dumpster fire.

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It’s pretty funny that both franchises suck because of ownership but each are at opposite ends of the spectrum. The kings owner is too involved and has his hands in everything including making the GM make awful trades or draft players that he likes. The Pels have an owner that could not give less of shite about the team and refuses to invest the requisite money required to be good

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Wow. I did not see that coming.

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Neither did she

I’m super high on Tyson but for him to already be getting hurt is very disappointing considering his injury history.

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This. We are just the most poorly constructed team in the league. We have MULTIPLE players that teams would love to have contribute to their team, but our group together is dirt.

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We’re also an expensive team. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a team so expensive that can’t shoot, rebound, or defend at even an average NBA level.

Mathurin is not good. All he does is score at OK efficiency. He doesn’t defend, he doesn’t pass, he rebounds only OK. He’s a completely empty calorie player.

Total Dumars move. This will lock us into 30 wins for the foreseeable future

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Would you trade Poole/Hawkins for MPJ, assuming it might take a 1st or 2 to get him, and you have to give him a large extension, likely 4/$200M? If you wanted a high volume efficient 3P shooter, there aren't many better than him in that role. I personally don't care for him, and wouldn't want to pay him that much. He's a low IQ player who isn't really a good defender or rebounder despite having the size and ability to be elite at both. I'd trade Zion straight up for him in a heartbeat.

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I’d trade Zion for him in a heartbeat but I’m not giving up picks for MPJ

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its not often teams don't give lottery picks their 4th year option. you have to really really suck after your first 2 years for that to not happen. I seriously doubt anyone was saying we shouldn't have picked up that option after his 2nd year in the league.

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While that’s true, Hawkins was the exception. He was drafted to do one thing, shoot. He didn’t even have potential for any other skills. After his first two years it was pretty clear that he doesn’t make 3s at a high enough % to justify him being on the floor. At that point you cut bait and sign a shooter for the minimum

Sounds like we’re trying to dump him. Grizzlies have an exception large enough to take him. Will probably cost a couple 2nds. That would give us ~15m under the tax but free agents are extremely limited at this point

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Replace Herb with another +38% SG taking 8+ 3's a game and boom.

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It so much more difficult than that because that player also needs to be your best perimeter defender because Fears, Trey, and Queen won’t be. Now you’re looking for a unicorn. OG would be perfect but he’s not available and there.

I would see if we can get Myles Turner for Poole’s expiring without sacrificing much draft capital. He’s a bad rebounder but provides shot blocking and shooting at the 5 which would probably allow you to start Herb.


Fears/herb/trey/queen/turner would be a fun lineup.

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still think you can get away with 4-6 3pt for Fears with a good clip and a real SG to take off the pressure.

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You cannot though. Fears has to become a high volume efficient shooter from 3 as a small guard. It would make roster construction even harder when it’s already going to be hard enough trying to build around Queen. If Queen and Fears are your core and they neither of them are volume 3 point shooters then you need your 3 other starters to not only be efficient, high volume shooters, they also need to be extremely good defenders to cover for Queen and Fears. Basically you need to surround them with 3 unicorns