pepe1991 wrote:JF5 wrote:thelead wrote:Could have had all 4 (Sabonis included)....
Lavine instead of Elf, Markkanen instead of Isaac. But we hold onto Vuc and Evan as if they are going to lead us to a championship one day
We've got to stop doing this to ourselves... The trade happened almost 3 years ago... LET IT GO...
Hard to do it when Magic in 2017 failed at tanking and took Isaac where, if they sucked bit more ,without moral wins at end of a year could take Tatum or Fox.
2018 is even worst, one usless win vs Dallas was difference between Bamba and Dončić.
But Pepe, in all honesty, and I do think your posts are almost always very well-grounded in fact, we probably wouldn’t have taken Fox and MAYBE would have taken Tatum anyway. Isaac was very seriously considered on the edge of top 4 prospects leading up to the draft. Tatum was a bit of a shock at 3. We all know that the consensus would have put us at Josh Jackson or Isaac even if we were drafting top 3 or 4.
This is the problem with the outlook on the board—any player that turns out to be good is assumed to have been within our realistic plans but for some huge mistake.
For example, Dipo looked VERY mediocre with us AND OKC. He only just started playing at a high level in Inidana and I’m sure a huge part of that was being in a place he feels at home.
Isaac was always going to be a project and he could still end up being amazing. What we have to look for from all of our guys is improvement each year and I think it’s safe to say that we are seeing that from AG and Isaac at least. Bamba we will see, but we let go of Dipo and Elfrid because they looked like the plateaued to be fair. They just happened to put it together now.
...don't care to fight about it with half of the board, but Ball would be my pick from LAL if LBJ decided he needed more complementary help.
