Jamaaliver wrote:jayu70 wrote:Trae has until the day before the regular season starts before he signs his extension, so the draft and offseason moves will/should occur before Trae has to sign.
What the front office does will drive the Trae decsion.
Gotta be honest, if all we do is stand pat and draft more teenagers at #14 and #23...I can't imagine any reason Trae would want to sign an extension here.
It wouldn't be a wrong approach, but just one not in keeping with a multi time All Star entering his prime.
I had not paid attention to this situation in this way until you mentioned it and I completely agree on this.
We need to add size, weight and experience.
The way to improve would be by trading some players together with our picks to get big bodies who can offer post presence and intimidation. Also developing Gueye, Risacher, JJ and OO.
I wonder what would it take to get Kessler out of Utah. Do they want players and picks. We could offer CC in a S&T, our picks and some other player who could be attractive to them. Niang would be like a perfect guy for Utah's system, although I would not mind to keep him around, but that would mean having too many PFs with everyone lacking deeply in some parts of the game (Gueye, Niang, JJ).
We desperately need a C who can block shots, defend big guys, get defensive rebounds...