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I think he can be very good offensively, but chances of being starter level is slim with his defense. You pretty much have to be all star level to do that. He likely falls closer to the Monk/Sexton scale of things and that might not be worth a full MLE nowadays.

How could I forget the off-season acquisition of Taylor Hendricks.

Pretty horrid FA period if all we did was trade a pick and Sexton for Nurkic. The best move was buying out JC.

That's fine, especially because I don't think a positive offer exists for Lauri. But we really need to get rid of Collins to protect the tank and have enough minutes for the players we want to develop. If AA is serious about "won't happen this year", we are risking a lot for little to no gain...

Waiting until deadline has not been good for us in the past. Whoever we enter the season with we should work under the assumption that there won't be a trade for them later on. In general, I think we've learned a hard lesson about trying increase/maintain trade value on a tanking team. Those...

We're not trying to win anything right now. There's plenty of playing time for Key and WCJ. Cut bait with Key if you don't believe in him or if there's a decent offer for him, but if you want to develop both there's no reason you can't. Have no idea why people are so obsessed with how players...

Monk -> DET via TPE Derozan -> MIA Lauri -> SAC Rozier -> UTA SAC picks -> UTA

If the Kings get Kuminga they must trade Derozan. Collins/Derozan/Rozier 3 way is still alive. I’m also calling the Kings to see if they still have interest in Lauri. I want their picks.

I wonder if the Pistons would have taken Sexton for free. They’ve opened up a $22M trade exception. Too late to think about that now, when you can get a guy like Nurkic you have to jump on it quickly.

Kings trying to get Kuminga. Who the hell thinks Kuminga is the missing piece next to Lavine and Derozan. The Jazz must engage with the dumb teams of the NBA.

They play in the west

Somebody is going to rob NOP once they realize they’re not a playoff team and have made a big mistake. Maybe that’s when we take advantage.

It just gets hard to be very bad once you have a lot of rotation players. Some of our young players are turning into legit players instead of tank commanders. We’re adding some young guys, and while I’d expect Ace to be super negative and play a lot of minutes WCJ and TH are probably going to be...

It's really just the contract. If those guys were FA's, they'd probably sign for like $10M a year like Jerome. Getting almost double the true market value isn't palpable atm. If a small, non defending guard is going to exceed the MLE in the future he's probably an all star level player.

So the big disclaimer here is that DARKO is not a season projection. It's an APM projection if they played a game today. What this is saying is that if the players play at the listed level and the listed minutes over the course of a season, they will win about 25 games. DARKO is not made for...

That's just the reality of small guards who don't defend. Would be a shame if our FO had an affinity for them......................

My (very bad, don't hold it against me!) DARKO projection with made up minute totals has this current roster at 25.45 wins. Collier and Keyonte expected to drive the tank once again, but big improvements from then could turn this into a 30+ win team. s/o Nurkic the +/- analytics god

The obvious team who could fit the "young player and two firsts" asking price is IND. Mathurin or Jarace + two firsts. The other team could be CHO. I don't know who their young player would be, but they have plenty of ammo to trade for Kessler.

Lakers were one of the best Collins destinations, it's unlikely now as they can't take much more salary back. Vincent+Kleber for Collins puts them too close to the apron which they are hardcapped at. Best chance now is probably Miami? Maybe MIA does Rozier and Love (actual good vet to have...

Ayton goes to the Lakers, and Shams does some of the best shilling I have ever seen lmao. View: https://x.com/ShamsCharania/status/1940524848100659676