doclinkin wrote:Oh and:payitforward wrote:Come on Doc... no one trades 1 higher pick for 1 lower pick!
Not my argument. Mine is okay trade back in this draft, but instead of a haul of many lower picks in this draft, pick up one plus future picks in a future draft. Trade fewer picks for lighter protection. And pick swaps. Because those lower picks now are guaranteed to be lower, duh, but future picks have a chance to be higher up in the cluster of sweetest grapes. Play the long game instead of gimmegimme right now! Spread out your chances to drafts that may have greater talent. Then yeah, hope to live long enough to see it all pan out
Oh and this is the search tool I've used for finding picks by draft position if anyone wants to grind through it.
https://basketball.realgm.com/nba/draft/search
Seems to me if you could get the 5th and 15th pick in every draft, you'd be doing great. Many of the best the flukes and anomalies seem to cluster there.
Yep, once it became clear we were starting officially tanking this season, my view was 1000%, if we could trade out, I'd rather do that than draft at slot in this class. I'd rather have magic bullets in '25 and '27 or whatever, than a top 6 pick in this one. Of course the risk is that in a league like this, you end up getting a pick in the teens or whatever, but I'm sure there's a way of playing it that makes more sense than simply trading down. Find a dumb team that's delusional about where they're at right now, and thinks with just two picks this year in the lottery they can contend, or win 45-50 or whatever, and target them. It also helps because it stretches out and avoids wasting rookie contract years on lost seasons. Bad enough the '24 picks are likely to be used on complimentary at best players, even worse that half their rookie deals will probably be wrapped before we have any chance of even being good.