Official Brandon Ingram Thread

[Tha Cynic]

The last healthy 2 years Kawhi had for the Spurs:

2x 1st team all-NBA
2x 1st team all-defense
2nd in MVP voting
3rd in MVP voting
1x DPOY

The chasm between the upside of Kawhi and Ingram was/is massive.

Kawhi was a top 3 impact player. We’ll be lucky if Ingram is top 25 imo. Even if he’s healthy his upside is low level all-star. He’s basically a better fitting (with Barnes) Siakam-level player.

All that said, as a #1 option he’s way better than anyone else we have.

The chasm between trading your top scorer and top 2 player, a recent top 10 pick and a 1st vs trading an expected late 1st+2 salary fillers...is also massive.

As a team that needs to look for buy low opportunities, it's well worth the risk.

This is it in a nutshell. We’re not the lakers. No one is offering us Doncic. If you can get an all star caliber player for a frp plus expirings and he can deliver 55-60 games a year and healthy for the playoffs you have to make that deal

Our expectations are also all over the place. Not sure why we’re even talking about Leonard when we didn’t spend like we’re acquiring a Leonard.

The team is now in the accumulating talent phase when they had Lowry and Derozan. I would look at Ingram like acquiring a Derozan or Ibaka.

Hopefully we can get some exciting games back this season

[tsherkin]

The team is now in the accumulating talent phase when they had Lowry and Derozan. I would look at Ingram like acquiring a Derozan or Ibaka.

That sounds about right. Ingram is a little better than DeRozan, but considerably less available, so that's the trade-off. But we're absolutely in the "build a decent team and hope to find some good deals to help you get better and position for a major talent acquisition" phase. And we thought for a long time that we were capped out with that team, too, until we weren't. But even if we never get better than the pre-Kawhi team, that's fine: we were really good, and fun to watch until the deeper rounds of the playoffs (or any time against a really good D).

Hopefully we can get some exciting games back this season

We 100% will if we are any kind of healthy.