ImaBeatDatAzz wrote:Wish we could look to do fvv for naz reid and russel
Van Vleet and Boucher for Reid and Russell makes sense to me if we can't get a quality first for Van Vleet and are keeping Siakam and therefore not properly tanking for Wemby or Scoot. Reid signs for a Boucher-like number to compete with Precious and Koloko and backup Siakam (more likely Precious is the backup 4) which is a surer path to playing time than being with Minnesota. Minnesota gets a decent fit next to Towns or Gobert at the 4 and pays Van Vleet for D and leadership next to Edwards. They can still always trade Towns for a wing if they need to if the team still doesn't fit together as well as last year's team and Gobert-Towns just doesn't take. We could ask for Minott or Moore too if we have the leverage to do so.
Russell probably stays and we run Russell-Trent-Barnes-Siakam-Precious with a bench of a 2022 1st round guard, whatever draft pick and young player we got for OG (let's say Trey Murphy, Graham and a quality 1st rounder or 2 meh ones), Reid, Koloko, Otto is around to be a veteran. Treadmill team, but with an extra pick and Boucher for Reid makes us younger as does giving Russell his deal instead of Van Vleet and hoping he hits his peak in his late 20s, which makes sense really considering he's always lacked strength but not skill. Also works with OG staying as long as Trent comes off the bench. A bench of say Black/Wallace-Graham-Trent-Murphy-Porter-Reid-Koloko looks like a really fun bench mob.
