jezzerinho wrote:
Show me a poimt/combo guard outside of Hali (who is a phenom) in the last 5-7 years who did anything of significance to help a contending team within the 1st 2 years or so. It's just soooooo hard to run an NBA offense that CoJo will do it better than Year 1 Cade Cunningham.
Those picks will be needed to move salary and attract teams to deal with us. I'd hope we draft nobody in the 1st frankly.
I get what you're saying, but the idea is if there isn't a true longterm fix available they could draft someone and trade for or sign a fill in. I would hope they are thinking more than 1-2 years out. Also this team is still going to lean heavily on Paolo and Franz no matter what. I'm not sure anyone they get controls the offense-- Simons and Sexton certainly won't, but if they can bend the defense and stretch the floor while competently moving the ball it is a huge upgrade.
Best option is to just fix the position long term with someone who fits financially obviously (hard to find), they are going to bring somebody in. But a lot of the apparently available options will be expensive to sign and may or may not even be long term starters on a good team. They can definitely have a prospect on the bench behind them.
But I agree for those reasons I wouldn't be a huge fan of trading a lot of equity to go up and take someone, but they absolutely can take a guard that falls to them while also trading for somebody to play a bulk of the minutes. This team owns like 20 picks over the next 7 years they have flexibility to make trades and draft players, it's not one or the other.
