Snakebites wrote:bstein14 wrote:Snakebites wrote:I’ve made my peace with the extension.
5 year max extension this season essentially locks him up with us for a total of 6 more years until the 29-30 season in which he'll be 28 years old and likely in his prime. I feel like the most likely scenario that plays out, is he slowly gets better improves efficiency and his overall skillset and likely by age 26/27/28 range he becomes an all-star level player but I doubt he's ever top 10 type guy. The biggest thing for me is that he needs to go beyond the stats, become more efficient and do more of the little things to help the team win.
Its tough to hand out that type of money after the season we had essentially locking all future hope to one guys massive contract.
The bottom line is we did a bad job drafting.
We had a good starting point for the rebuild- no bad contracts and control of all of our picks. We could easily be in Orlando’s position right now if we’d made better choices. They didn’t even hit on all of their picks. But they did a far more competent job than we did.
Either Wagner or Banchero would be our best player.
Obviously we couldn't have drafted Banchero and I personally don't think Franz is any more of a #1 guy than Cade is. We just got the #1 pick in the draft where it turned out there were a lot of comparable players in the top 8-ish and fell in the drafts with true franchise players at the very top (Wemby, Paolo, Chet, etc) and a big drop off below that.
That's the frustrating part, I feel like we've drafted fairly well overall, with the one glaring flaw being the obvious #7 pick that shall not be named.
There wasn't anyone that we were going back and forth on in these last 3 drafts (Green, Mobley, Mathurin, Sharpe, Hendricks, Walker, Cam, etc) that you'd say would have made our outlook much higher, if at all. None of those are #1 franchise players and that's the thing we still lack.