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I am just not sold on Capella, but the asking price is pretty low if it was just 10 to 15.  I am just worried he may dip another level soon.

I was a fan of Collins with the liklihood Lively or a FA center could be attained.  Although, some good points that if you have Luka, Kyrie and Collins that is your big salary guys.    Pretty tough when your top three players are not better than average defenders and are paid big money.  So I get that as well.

The argument would be that somebody like Paul Reed could potentially do the same Capela does for less money. He outplayed him H2H recently.

He literally plays behind the league MVP. Last season he played over 24 minutes just six times. Sixers were 6-0 in those games.

His stats in those six games were

27.6 MPG
15.0 PPG
11.2 RPG
1.0 APG
1.8 SPG
1.8 BPG
plus 19.33 +/-

He´s a young player. Volatility is expected. Obviously the tendency is you get minutes on good days and benched on bad days, but getting guys before it´s obvious to everybody is how you build successful rosters.

So yes maybe the easy answer is "it´s just five draft spots", but maybe the complex answer is, you keep the pick, take Black, Hendricks or Dick to become your long-term starting SF and then use Reggie Bullock to do a S&T for Paul Reed to avoid a RFA drama.

Of course this is all about talent evaluation and what you believe in. Capela/Bullock for 30M+ is the safe two year window option. Hendricks/Reed could fail or could lead to Luka playing with his version of Shawn Marion and Tyson Chandler just for ten years instead of two AND gain you $20M in cap flexibility for the next five years.
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Also that JVG situation. Jesus Christ.

His brother came back from the broadcast booth after a break of just 2.5 years and it was a complete bust.

Now here are some of his players that were on the floor the last time JVG coached an NBA team: Tracy McGrady, Yao Ming, Dikembe Mutombo, Juwan Howard and they played against the Seattle Super Sonics.