pacers33granger wrote:Scoot McGroot wrote:pacers33granger wrote:
We'd have to wait until 2022 at least for any 2nds from Milwaukee since they burned so many on the Mirotic trade.
Yeah, we've already got their 2021 2nd for the deal that got us Pacers legend's Wade Baldwin and Nik Stauskas at the deadline.
Realistically, they're probably looking at either giving up their 30th overall 1st rounder this year for someone to take on Snell completely, and maybe trade down into the 2nd from there for someone to take on Illy, if that's all they can muster. I think they'd prefer Snell.
Yeah the Snell contract has really gummed up their books. I get the idea behind it generally, but he just has not lived up to it at all. I'm skeptical 30 will be enough, but I've been wrong numerous times before. Obviously I don't see us having any interest in him.
Personally I'd want two 2nds to take on Ilyasova. I'm not sold that we would have any real use for him and could get a comparable player cheaper in free agency. I can only imagine how bad defensively a frontcourt bench of Doug/Ily/Domas would be.
Yeah. If Illy amended his deal to forgo his player option on that last season, I could see a team eating both Illy/Snell to get the 30. It's that 2nd year that just kills it, methinks.
As for Illy, he's definitely not a great player overall. I just like bench players to either be in the process of developing into starters (like a Holiday or Dom, or maybe even potentially an Alize or Sumner) or to simply have something that they're good at. Doug is a shooter, Illy shoots the 3 around 34-36% at decently high clip and rebounds. It's something.