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retrobro90 wrote:Already liked the pick because I believed in Cason as someone with a high floor but I can't stop thinking about sliding him into Dort's spot with the starters. If Dort could be an average finisher and make legit passes attacking closeouts he'd be phenomenal and I think Cason has the ability to do that in time. Probably never have Dort's strength and low center of gravity for switching onto bigger guys but he can still be a big time disruptor in his own way.

Kizz Fastfists wrote:

Zagor wrote:

Kizz Fastfists wrote:Presti has never understood building a complete team. He gets a few great pieces and then fails to put the rest of the team in place. He didn't need to do much this off-season. He made the trade up he needed to make to get Lively, which is the defensive anchor the team needs, and let Chet play PF because he isn't a center. Then he could've moved Dort, with picks, for another solid big, like John Collins, and then you have Chet as your 6th man in his rookie season. They had enough 1-3 with SGA, Giddy, Jalen Williams, Mann, Joe, Wiggins, etc.

Presti has a team overloaded at 1-3 with nothing you can depend on as quality play at 4/5 unless you are going to play extremely undersized which is fine if you just want to be a fringe playoff team that is "exciting and scrappy", but it is absolute garbage if your goal is winning a championship.

On the contrary, Chet is center. Real center.
Whatever success this team will have, it will be with him playing center position.

Starting lineup is undersized, yes. But if Dieng improves by his third season, situation is drastically different.
Roster building is in middle phase. There is still a lot of time to add bigger bodies.

Just like Dirk was a real center? Dirk was bigger and stronger as a rookie than Chet will likely ever be and he was pushed around in the paint by centers most of his career. Dirk is the player we all hope Chet becomes. A legendary power forward, but in no way will he become an above average center.

OKC2008 wrote:

Kizz Fastfists wrote:

Zagor wrote:On the contrary, Chet is center. Real center.
Whatever success this team will have, it will be with him playing center position.

Starting lineup is undersized, yes. But if Dieng improves by his third season, situation is drastically different.
Roster building is in middle phase. There is still a lot of time to add bigger bodies.

Just like Dirk was a real center? Dirk was bigger and stronger as a rookie than Chet will likely ever be and he was pushed around in the paint by centers most of his career. Dirk is the player we all hope Chet becomes. A legendary power forward, but in no way will he become an above average center.

Basically you wanted:

Giddey- SGA- JDub - Colins - Lively

This lineup would have been by far the starting lineup with the worst spacing in NBA history

Big nick wrote:I am suprised people wanted to draft lively I think he will be a flop. A guy that doesn't bring much to the game except block shots in this game to me doesn't have much value. I mean he has no shot doesn't handle the ball well. I guess each to his own.

retrobro90 wrote:I really like Cason as previously mentioned but I just realized and find it funny how all of the "kentucky guards are always better in the nba" sentiment completely overlooks how bad and unimpressive TyTy Washington was last year for Houston

Devilanche wrote:

retrobro90 wrote:I really like Cason as previously mentioned but I just realized and find it funny how all of the "kentucky guards are always better in the nba" sentiment completely overlooks how bad and unimpressive TyTy Washington was last year for Houston

OKC decides to give Tyty a chance to correct this perception.

Dadouv47 wrote:

Devilanche wrote:

retrobro90 wrote:I really like Cason as previously mentioned but I just realized and find it funny how all of the "kentucky guards are always better in the nba" sentiment completely overlooks how bad and unimpressive TyTy Washington was last year for Houston

OKC decides to give Tyty a chance to correct this perception.

would be such a Presti thing to keep Tyty and trade Garuba.

Devilanche wrote:

Dadouv47 wrote:

Devilanche wrote:OKC decides to give Tyty a chance to correct this perception.

would be such a Presti thing to keep Tyty and trade Garuba.

I think Tyty wins over Mann in training camp
And Garuba over JRE as well
But I think in the end only 1 of the 4 will survive.

Wiggins should be here still cause his floor is a lot higher and he can contribute a lot more than the 4.

Dadouv47 wrote:

Devilanche wrote:

Dadouv47 wrote:
would be such a Presti thing to keep Tyty and trade Garuba.

I think Tyty wins over Mann in training camp
And Garuba over JRE as well
But I think in the end only 1 of the 4 will survive.

Wiggins should be here still cause his floor is a lot higher and he can contribute a lot more than the 4.

yeah I think so too. I'm really worried Presti keeps JRE though. He decided to guaranteed his contract, he liked him a lot when he was drafted and looks like he's beloved/important in the locker room which is something Presti values a lot. That being said, it's very hard to guess what Presti is gonna do... it's gonna be pretty close between several players. It was pretty easy last offseason to guess that Maledon/Jerome/Krejci were done but this time it's gonna be tricky.

I love Wiggins more than our coach but I would still explore his trade value. I just don't know how much playing time he can get with Micic, Cason and Kenrich coming back (I would rather trade Kenrich to be honest but it's even less likely to happen)