nate33 wrote:In general, I think SevernHoos had it right. Be patient. No trades until draft day. See who falls to us. If Kanter isn't available, try and trade up or trade down. If that doesn't pan out, go ahead and take Biyombo.
But if we draft Biyombo, we should try and move Seraphin. Ideally, we trade Seraphin for a pick high enough to grab Leonard or Singleton, or maybe Marcus Morris (if he projects as a SF).
Probably Biyombo stays another year in Spain unless the CBA is worked out early, so I could see just working on Seraphin next year as a showcase type operation. I'm in on a stash pick, but Ernie's probably thinking he's getting fired without productivity out of this draft.
As to the Beasley thing - I mean, there's a lot of points against it from multiple angles, bit I don't understand how those who want him are overlooking the point that he's got just one more year on his contract. One stinking year. What's the end game here?
For trade ups - the value is going to be real hard to 'canoiter.
I love the "lets throw in the 18th and 34th picks in conjunction with our crappy 6th and get a difference maker" plans, but our trade partners would need to be exceptionally befuddled. Blatche doesn't strike me as being particularly viable bait unless maybe a contract is coming back to us, but I don't know what would work. The CBA situation works counter to BOYD opportunities due to the uncertainty of the cap (we might not have any space) and the teams above us don't look likely dumpers. McGee is WAAAAAAY too much to give up, Booker and Seraphin not enough even if packaged with picks. Crawford is a possibility, but he's a pig-in-a-poke as far as perceptions of value and it seems like featuring him in the glorious unveiling of our new star-spangled-spankiness precludes the likelihood of a "dear john" letter so early in the courting. Maybe moving up possible, but I'm seeing slim odds in finding something.
Trade backs look more workable, though you can't be all in there, needing to at least appear to be willing to just go ahead and use the 6th pick, which I think we are.
Well.....as to ideas, I can't say I'd endorse it exactly as Wes had an outright turrible rookie year, but I wonder if we could get Wes Johnson AND the 20th from Minnesota for the 6th and then use the 18th and 20th to trade up into the late lottery? It's probably a bad idea, but if Wes was undercut by a lack of point-play amidst the general Minnesotan morass more than anything and we stumbled into "the inexplicably talented slipper" in the late lottery, it
could be interesting. However, Wes is about to be 24 or whatever, so that diminishes things with him.
