Frank Lee wrote:Ghost of Kleine wrote:I'd honestly like us to not bring back Okogie, and waive Roddy to create 2 open spots left for:
Starting Small Forward-
Covington or Crowder.
Backup 4/5-
Daniel Theiss or Christian Wood ( via small trade).
How about we grab a couple more youngsters and forget about this delusional we are a contender mindset? I say play the crap out of Dunn and that Oso fella and find out quickly if they’re legit contributors. We don’t have enough minutes to go around to keep stacking in old wore out vets and once was maybes. If we didn’t hit on these Draft picks… It’s a rinse and repeat, Unless the big little three ball out.
Outside of Bud, Morris might be the most important pick up. And actually getting rid of Vogel could be the biggest improvement just from addition by subtraction.
Furthermore, it’s borderline trolling/and certainly comical some here are clamoring for a retry of notorious quitters DeSquandre and Chuck Chowder. Give that **** a rest.
Oh, I completely agree with you man! Young athletic players would be better for sure! But since my gut tells me (I promise it's not gas by the way) that Ishbia and Jones aren't yet ready to admit that reality, and are unlikely to pivot to a full-on youth development path yet either. My remaining hope would be for us to add a few of these more well known vet names on the minimum and hope that they can hopefully excel in their role and be used as potential low-cost 1 for-1 cheap trade piece in a deadline deal that either returns a cheap young talent as you're suggesting OR possibly a 2nd round pick in the loaded 25' draft or even a future 2nd (seeing as he pulled multiple 2nds for Milwaukee not too long ago).
But yeah man, I agree that we're not a contender by any means, absent of further bigger moves that we just can't do unless our front office chooses to finally (around the deadline) begrudgingly acquiesce to trade one of our big 3! I also agree that I don't see either team wanting Ayton, especially at his salary. However, I would be open to us trying to explore being a 3rd team facilitator (if possible) to have Ayton go elsewhere to a team desperately needing a center, and having cap space, then maybe some team gets Ayton, the other team gets Nurkic, and we get pieces/ fillers/ a pick or 2nds possibly. A few teams that might fit that scenario (needing a center) could be:
New York, Milwaukee, Miami, Chicago, Golden State, Flakers, Memphis?
My veiled interest in Crowder would honestly only be predicated on the premise of Crowder either being a solid mentor for Jalen Bridges and Ryan Dunn, and/or maybe building a modicum of trade value in our system and then flipping him in some trade deadline deal for a 2nd or two if lucky?
