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OGSactownballer wrote:

BoogieTime wrote:Maybe I’m a bit dejected from this last suns game, but I still think we should be going young this year.

Im hoping there is a market for these vets. Buddy/Barnes helped to win the nuggets game

Totally disagree with this sentiment and have all along.

Last year was an injury plagued, bad chemistry COVID fluke and a throwaway.

This is how we should have looked last year - healthy. It’s where everything left off two years ago. In an upward trajectory with a growing young core.

Winning is ultimately the priority. Having an attitude of being in a perennial rebuild is automatically self defeating. We need to start winning and building towards being a contender and you cannot do that by losing. Right now we are looking like there is a team wide chemistry and effort building to work together and win. We cannot just arbitrarily break that with a premature move. And we absolutely do not want to do ANYTHING that is not a now and later clear improvement.

City of Trees wrote:I'd just like to publicly acknowledge Monte McNair absolutely made the right call in letting Bogi walk.


That is all.

SmellingColors wrote:I thought this 4 game stretch would spark a losing streak - BOS, DEN, LAC, PHI - but they've managed to go 3-0 in this stretch so far with Philly tomorrow. I'm just going to take it one game at a time, but anywhere from 4-8 (and obviously down all the way to 14) seems doable a this point.

Can't believe I'm saying this, but we have a shot at getting into the playoffs outright...

codydaze wrote:

SmellingColors wrote:I thought this 4 game stretch would spark a losing streak - BOS, DEN, LAC, PHI - but they've managed to go 3-0 in this stretch so far with Philly tomorrow. I'm just going to take it one game at a time, but anywhere from 4-8 (and obviously down all the way to 14) seems doable a this point.

Can't believe I'm saying this, but we have a shot at getting into the playoffs outright...

That definitely could be possible. I know there's strength of schedule numbers available somewhere and I don't have those but I feel like we've had a pretty rough schedule to start the year. If we can hit an easier stretch and handle business the way we should, we can definitely start to make a push.

OGSactownballer wrote:They can dump the rest of the season and have a better than even chance at a good pick or the ability to trade up.

I posted a question about that on the T and T board. I expect the usual clowns but also would like a true opinion as I see Mobley as the third core guy with Fox and Hali and I think that they should do what they need (or move future pick/s and other assets) to do to secure at least the #2 pick to get him.

kalenclayton wrote:

OGSactownballer wrote:They can dump the rest of the season and have a better than even chance at a good pick or the ability to trade up.

I posted a question about that on the T and T board. I expect the usual clowns but also would like a true opinion as I see Mobley as the third core guy with Fox and Hali and I think that they should do what they need (or move future pick/s and other assets) to do to secure at least the #2 pick to get him.

So I love the idea of Mobley with Fox and Hali. I just can’t see a way to get to the 2nd pick without mortgaging too much. I can’t see a team in the lotto in a situation where they can value our players enough to move Mobley for. We don’t even have very many players with neutral-positive value after Fox and Hali. The only way I see it is if the Kings jump into the top 4. If the team could move from 2 to 4, then they could probably request a top-4 protected ‘22 pick and 4 for 2. That works, but I’m having a hard time identifying who wouldn’t be enamored with Mobley there. I know some team is going to have Mobley lower, but I just can figure out who.