Rebuild Thread

[Handlogten's Heros]

Seriously blow this **** up.... at this point it is inevitable that Rudy is getting traded. Get future facing assets for him. Trade Quin if he has a year left on his deal.

If you blow it up now the benefits are:

- You can trade Conley and Bogey while getting no on court immediate help... so say the Lakers give you two unprotected firsts in 26 & 28 for Bogey and Mike and we take Westbrook (who takes a buyout or we waive him.... could even waive and stretch him to get us out of the tax now since future cap won't matter as much). Royce still has trade value and a movable deal so you find a home for him too.

- You get a mega premium on Donovan.... you could trade him in a year but the return would be like 20% less or so.

- The year of tanking allows you to play the young players like Butler and whoever we draft to get a good look at them.

- You get to throw your hat into the lotto for 2023... since you already traded the 2024 pick it will be tempting to delay the rebuild 2 years if you don't move Donovan. Now that asset has no value and you have wasted two years. Blowing it up now means we get a high pick in 23 and 24 (the okc pick is top 10 protected).

- You can also do the OKC reclamation project thing where you take on a badish salary and the player plays well and you flip him for more.

Teams don't do it but they should... the teams that win big in this league get top tier talent... top tier talent comes primarily through the draft unless you are LA/GS/Miami.... but even those teams don't get where they want without drafting guys.

Don't half *** it... whole *** this **** and do it right.

 

[Ineptimusprime]

Seriously blow this **** up.... at this point it is inevitable that Rudy is getting traded. Get future facing assets for him. Trade Quin if he has a year left on his deal.

If you blow it up now the benefits are:

- You can trade Conley and Bogey while getting no on court immediate help... so say the Lakers give you two unprotected firsts in 26 & 28 for Bogey and Mike and we take Westbrook (who takes a buyout or we waive him.... could even waive and stretch him to get us out of the tax now since future cap won't matter as much). Royce still has trade value and a movable deal so you find a home for him too.

- You get a mega premium on Donovan.... you could trade him in a year but the return would be like 20% less or so.

- The year of tanking allows you to play the young players like Butler and whoever we draft to get a good look at them.

- You get to throw your hat into the lotto for 2023... since you already traded the 2024 pick it will be tempting to delay the rebuild 2 years if you don't move Donovan. Now that asset has no value and you have wasted two years. Blowing it up now means we get a high pick in 23 and 24 (the okc pick is top 10 protected).

- You can also do the OKC reclamation project thing where you take on a badish salary and the player plays well and you flip him for more.

Teams don't do it but they should... the teams that win big in this league get top tier talent... top tier talent comes primarily through the draft unless you are LA/GS/Miami.... but even those teams don't get where they want without drafting guys.

Don't half *** it... whole *** this **** and do it right.

Westbrook ending his career as our tank commander is poetic.

But just reading it in print I can tell the FO will have no stomach for it at all. We’d need a top 3-5 pick in this year’s draft (as well as numerous picks in subsequent years) before I think the FO would even blink about moving Don this offseason.

Everyone else is probably on the chopping block. This summer, at best, is going to be a weird half-assed attempt to retool around Don.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Westbrook ending his career as our tank commander is poetic.

He'd never play here... he'd give back like $5M and we'd give him a buyout. You could stretch the remaining amount of his deal and you are out of the tax. You could also save money on the Rudy/Donovan deals too, but we'd have more cap space than we could use for a couple years so it might make sense to not let finances drive the value of other trades and take out value you could get back.