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Predict the Rudy Gobert trade

Handlogten's Heros said:
You can literally go read books about how tanking works (bottoming out or whatever you want to call it). That’s what the nba doesn’t want you to think though. Winning a title is hard… all routes will lead to failure… but drafting very high in the lotto is proven… how does one draft high… they either suck or get lucky or both.
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The Sixers not only tanked for high lottery picks, they also were happy to let players red shirt their first year. It happened with Noel, Embiid and Simmons. Sixers were extremely well set up to compete at the highest level, but they were unfortunate with Markelle Fultz, and they mishandled Jimmy Butler.
 
Jingled said:
One of the most interesting parts of this podcast was when Tony said "Johnnie Bryant can tell Donovan Mitchell no... that right there might be the number one most important thing this franchise needs right now, to tell you the truth. I'm being so real"

I can't imagine how stupid a person has to be to still deny that this franchise caters to Donovan and kisses his *** at every turn.
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Hearsay, rumors, lies… can’t believe you Rudy lovers fall for these grifters and their “sauces” with info.
 
Gobert for Hunter/Collins/16 sounds pretty intriguing to me. Would Detroit take Bogey/16 for Grant?
 
Jingled said:
One of the most interesting parts of this podcast was when Tony said "Johnnie Bryant can tell Donovan Mitchell no... that right there might be the number one most important thing this franchise needs right now, to tell you the truth. I'm being so real"

I can't imagine how stupid a person has to be to still deny that this franchise caters to Donovan and kisses his *** at every turn.
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More than that, WHY THE **** ARE WE TRYING TO BUILD AROUD THAT.
 
Ferguson_Mellochill said:
The Sixers not only tanked for high lottery picks, they also were happy to let players red shirt their first year. It happened with Noel, Embiid and Simmons. Sixers were extremely well set up to compete at the highest level, but they were unfortunate with Markelle Fultz, and they mishandled Jimmy Butler.
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They had a comedy of errors, the WORST luck, and we’re forced to bring in the ****ing Colangelos so the original architect never got to finish his product.

Still ended up with a former MVP, a current MVP candidate, a young stud… and will have a semi-legit chance to win it all if Harden is good. They were also a bad bounce away from making it to the East finals and maybe winning a title.

Here is what it took to mess up their tank…

Fultz busts his shoulder up and forgets how to shoot in the weirdest set of events ever.

They trade Mikal Bridges for a guy who almost dies when he has an allergic reaction to sesame seeds.

They give up a haul to get Tobias Harris so they can pay him a ton of money and decide it’s better than keeping Jimmy who could have been the answer to all their issues.

Flubbed up the Okafor pick. Nerlens is never good or healthy for them.

Their all nba forward guard has a mental block and refuses to shoot. Ends up sitting out and forcing a trade.

Also their GM gets caught up in a Twitter burner scandal and is openly mocked.

They stacked the deck enough that they still are a top 6-7 team because if you get a few things really right at the top of the draft it will carry you.
 
Elizah Huge said:
Everyone acts like we are guaranteed to get the #1 pick next year if we tanked. What if we got the 4th pick and they ended up being subpar? Then what? Another year of sucking and hoping we get a good player in the draft? How many years is that going to go on for?
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It's true that a team needs to have enough draft picks that they can afford to miss on half of them. That's why OKC is stockpiling picks. There's no way they have roster spots for all the picks they have, but it gives them the ability to maneuver in the draft, draft for upside and just walk away if the player doesn't pan out. For every Donovan Mitchell, there's a Dante Exum and Trey Burke. For every Rudy Gobert, there's an Enes Kanter and Derrick Favors.

The ideal "Process" isn't to be bad for 4 or 5 straight years. The ideal process is to do what Boston did, or what the Jazz could do this offseason, and that's flush out all of your existing players and load up on assets all at once. If the Jazz traded out both Mitchell and Gobert this offseason, they could have 3 lottery picks in this draft and possibly 2 more in the next draft. That's 5 lottery picks with the expectation that 2 will hit. Then you've got two All Star-caliber players on rookie-scale in the same age range to build with.

Ainge drafted Smart, Brown, Tatum, R. Williams, G. Williams and Pritchard. But he also drafted James Young, RJ Hunter, Romeo Langford, Guerschon Yabusele and Ante Zizic.
 
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