Why the hell are we tanking now??
Sure we all like Ochai fine, who wouldn't with that kind of beauty, but looking at Hardy's rotations he was playing THT, JC, Sexton, Dunn, and Key more than him during certain stretches of the season. Ochai typically was like the 5th guard in minutes played behind all the ballhandlers. I think the summer league kinda doomed him. He was fouling out and turning the ball over against kids and non NBA players. I still like Ochai in a Royce O'Neal type of way but you can add guys like him thru FA and late in the draft.I mean, Hardy liked Ochai just fine. He was giving him minutes and would have gladly given him more if he would shoot straight.
Or we give OKC the 11th pick or something.I don’t like punting on another season like this but at the end of the day it is the right move.
We were able to grab picks 29 and 32 currently in the draft plus opened up minutes for Hendricks and maybe Brice.
If we can be up making the play-in with the young guys playing that would be awesome and if we end up keeping a top-10 pick that would also be great.
We also created even more cap space this off-season with these trades.
I don't think Lauri or Collins are good lookingOnly good looking guys remaining on the roster are Lauri, Collins, Clarkson, and Samanic. Things are getting dangerous.
Curious, too, how THT shakes out now.
Let's not kid ourselves. Without further trades this team would be lucky to win 10+ games. Three rookies in the rotation and the bench (our biggest strength before) will struggle to get a 80 ORTG.If we can be up making the play-in with the young guys playing that would be awesome and if we end up keeping a top-10 pick that would also be great.
I don’t like punting on another season like this but at the end of the day it is the right move.
I mean damn near the entire board is telling me how good Simone and KO are. Which one is it?I don't get how these two trades are punting on the season. There are plenty of guys on the bench that can step into these roles. They may not be as good, but it won't be some massive step down. and who knows, maybe some of these guys (Hendricks, Brice, THT, Knox, Porter, the new Italian stallion, anyone we grab from the G-league) will step up. Or we could just tighten the rotation and give some of our current guys more minutes (sexton, Dunn, Kessler).