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Because we're not looking at our future 15th and 41th picks as "lets look how we're getting MVPs and FMVPs out those picks" ?

I say thanks for his letting clear he wanted out (thinking he didn't is wild) being done politely behind closed doors, allowing peace for a proper trade scenario where we could take a proper return is something I'll keep thankfull for. He could just be "yeah, go ahead, try convince me to stay...

Keeping Lauri is as much a foregone conclusion as some think ? Is the front office willingfull to roll the dice to the last year of his contract If they're unable to get an extension this offseason ? Edit: Can be ready for big game hunting also be ready to avoid another Hayward situation and...

I don't think we'll be good (much less great) defensively next season, as I see we'll be tanking next year, either through extending Lauri (thus having at least another safe year to do so) or trading him (thus sending us for two more years of real hard tanking where we'd be actually gunning for...

We started the year playing Collins as a PF, and THT as the starting PG (and Clarkson as a starter, no rotational minutes for our better defender in Hendricks, few and no guaranteed ones for Simone and Ochai that were the best after). All much more tanking moves than playing Collins as a center...

If they move they could be the Las Vegas Jazz, not the Utah Jazz, how hard that might be to comprehend I don't know. I guess the lasvegasjazz domain might be available, so there's possibility to open some online board where you'd discuss that with people that actually could be up to entertain...

If it was to blow it up earlier it should've been the offseason after that Clippers series loss where they decided It was a good idea to run It back the very same team, not to look into any trades either way (either use assets to bring more talent in or blowing It up right there). That season...

Hit on draft picks and trades I'd say, as we won't be landing really much better free agents than Bogdanovic (teams not going cheap on young star anymore as it was with Boozer). I'd expect/hope next year to be of a proper tanking from start to finish, going way developmental on Keyonte...

The league average is also composed both by the attempts of the most putrid defenses, like ours, and the best ones. It's not as much luck when If anything we're the ones pushing the axis.

I do believe we can drop all the way to the Nets (8th losing record) based on how close we are in the record, and that they don't own their pick, as It's fully unprotected to Houston, so they just suck, but ain't losing on purpose. Hawks and Rockets are near enough for us to get, Hawks is...

What I'm curious about team construction. Keeping Clarkson and Collins (not expecting to raise their values losing more than not till the end of the season) and renegotiating and extending Markkanen at whatever his max would be, what's left of cap space ?

Tanking also happens the way It does because less than a third of the league is actually capable of buying top level talent at free agency (while avoiding losing talent in Free Agency is tied to being viable enough of a contender, especially for those that ain't buyers). So there's the draft...

And unlike Siakam and OG (the two main moves i recall within the season), they had longterm deals. If we look back to the offseason. Dame could be one, but we'd be opening our war chest to par his timeline with Sexton, Clarkson, George (not that any of them are deserving of holding out of Dame...

Just a remind kids, no one is obliged to provide evidence against themselves

Playing Lauri at the 3 doesn't bother me, playing Collins at the perimeter might be worse than at the rim (on defense)