The thing is you trade Lauri and it's like what's next? When do we actually get that HOF potential player? Feels like it's easier to just trade for one and keep Lauri.
Agree... you could be awesome quickly like OKC and Memphis. You could also toil in mediocrity like Detroit or never be good like Charlotte.
Traded for Wiseman. Traded for Bagley.
I know... I'm saying trading for them was dumb in my other post. Their drafting hasn't been bad... the other stuff has been.
I'd do it if it was 2028 and 2030 and we got a swap in 27 or 29 or both. Jaquez may be off limits for the Heat right now. He also might be the rare guy on a rookie deal that helps you win a little more than you want. Its a weird balance if you go into the tank, but if there wasn't a huge dropoff I suppose you netted some picks and a player under team control longer.
They did draft Killian Hayes over Tyrese Haliburton and a lot of other useful rotation/starter tyoes
Yeah but that was understandable because Hayes was highly thought of... 4 more teams or so passed on Tyrese after them so I have a hard time assigning a ton of blame. For the most part they made the right picks.
I just don't think Lauri can get you more than two premium picks unless it's one of these teams like OKC who has more picks than they know what to do with.
Depends on what you mean by premium picks. I think Indiana should give like 3 picks plus Walker... They should be unprotected in that scenario... Indiana may be pretty good so even though they are unprotected it may not be "premium".
Cade was a terrible pick. I know they didn't really have a choice – for one reason or another he had become "the guy" in a really bad draft, and this is how it goes in the NBA... you take "the guy" or heads will roll somewhere. But taking someone at #1 means that the kid is instantly anointed franchise savior, and Cade never had that in him. It was all a pipe dream. Yet the Pistons immediately gave him the ball and the keys to the team, told him to go to work... and he's been ******** the bed ever since. But because he was the #1 pick, they can't do much about it yet. Too embarrassing.
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100 games... He may be more of a #2 than a #1 but I don't think he's a bust. Many young players struggle to be winning players early. The players around him aren't bad but no one can shoot and they are mostly young guys. If they want to give up on him I'd gladly take him off their hands.Cade was a terrible pick. I know they didn't really have a choice – for one reason or another he had become "the guy" in a really bad draft, and this is how it goes in the NBA... you take "the guy" or heads will roll somewhere. But taking someone at #1 means that the kid is instantly anointed franchise savior, and Cade never had that in him. It was all a pipe dream. Yet the Pistons immediately gave him the ball and the keys to the team, told him to go to work... and he's been ******** the bed ever since. But because he was the #1 pick, they can't do much about it yet. Too embarrassing.
Cade is such a losing player that he makes Zach LaVine look like Durant. IMO he's one of the worst busts of the last 15 years, considering where he was drafted. Not really his fault – in a good draft he wouldn't have gone in the Top 10.
Cade Cunningham Just Might Not Be a No. 1 Option
Various advanced stats place the third-year Pistons guard in discouraging company. What does that mean for Cunningham’s future—and what about his team’s?
Traded for Bogey. . .
Which is what no one here wants to do
Not really true. I may have been the original blowout up and tank guy. I think with Lauri’s market we should see what’s out there but no need to force a deal for tanking purposes. This draft just isn’t great.
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