Duffman100 wrote:Scase wrote:Brinbe wrote:As I said in another post in this thread, I don't think there's anything wrong with having some skepticism about this FO. Their talent ID has been really questionable and I don't know who/what to attribute that to exactly because they're so opaque about everything they do.
They did the work to give themselves flexibility this offseason to radically reshape large portions of this team, but selling off is always the easy part. The follow-through is what matters. Can they successfully do it? Well, that's where everyone will feel differently I suppose. But if you don't think so that's fine, but none of us can really do anything about it either way. So repeating it a billion times from now until whenever is also a bit tiresome.
My point was more about how much longer do we keep giving them, to fail at the same thing over and over? We dont have a whole lot in the way of assets we can trade to bolster the bench, and they have shown that the knack for finding hidden talent has been missing for many years.
We have the assets to bolster the bench through draft picks? If you consider Quickley, Dick, Barrett, Barnes, Poeltl as a starting 5.
Trent (maybe trade him or resign him)
Brown (maybe trade him or keep his option)
Kelly O
Ochai Agbaji
2024 17th pick
2024 31st pick
Either a top 6 pick this year or a pick in 2025.
Two 1sts in 2026
5 1sts of the next 3 years.
I think we have enough assets to start building a bench (where we didn't have the assets to do that post championship).
Yep, exactly. And there are still other possibilities as well, including not picking up Brown's option and letting Trent go to leave them with enough cap space to pursue a quality FA like Malik Monk or Grayson Allen. Especially if they also manage to off-load Boucher's contract somewhere. Or doing the same and using that cap space to take back a contract a team needs to off-load because of the new tax apron rules.
There's a lot of work to do, for sure, but the FO has given themselves more flexibility than any off-season in recent memory. They've made some mistakes recently, of course, but they've also never been in a situation like the one they'll have this summer, so we can't know how they'll deal with it.
It'll be very interesting to see how the team looks in October. We should all save the wailing and gnashing of teeth about the roster and bench until then at least.