12-02-2025, 12:34 PM
We have been luckier than most with drafting talent and that luck may last longer if we can do a good job to land another building block or 2 next to Cooper. AD should get us picks not sure what else we can trade besides guys that other teams may not want. Id say if Lively plays well it would be hard to trade him but I cannot condone offering him a large contract given his inability to remain healthy. Still we have Gafford and Cisse plus we lucked into situation with an AD at PF whose real best position is still at the 5. Is it wise to build around Lively? Not now not after all his getting hurt. Id say it is going to boil down to how much we can secure him for as well. We could screw around and lose him in FA. I would rather trade him for what we can get if the guy is likely to bolt in free agency. With AD scheduled to get traded and Gafford also being injured we need to tank to add in more balls in the lottery and adding on picks from trades makes a lot more sense. I would not do an all out tank I would not want to piss off Cooper doing something so vile. Stealth tanking however is permitted if we can even do that.
The most important thing to focus on this season is developing the rookies. We got lucky and have as many as 3 that could be keepers and Kelly would make 4 but he can get stashed up in Frisco a season. The cat is out of the bag on Nembhard and Cisse and his blocking shots is certainly putting him on lists around the league so he may have already earned a position as Powells replacement. That takes a lot of the risk out of the realm of possibilities that surround trading Lively. I have not seen how deep this next draft is for big's that you can build around but we can't consider tanking will secure anything so steath tank and stay in shot of the play offs and if AD gets back to super star status maybe we can get a nice player back as well and still be a good team. Lively needs to be upping his value as well but that is not happening on restricted minutes and with him being unavailable.
The most important thing to focus on this season is developing the rookies. We got lucky and have as many as 3 that could be keepers and Kelly would make 4 but he can get stashed up in Frisco a season. The cat is out of the bag on Nembhard and Cisse and his blocking shots is certainly putting him on lists around the league so he may have already earned a position as Powells replacement. That takes a lot of the risk out of the realm of possibilities that surround trading Lively. I have not seen how deep this next draft is for big's that you can build around but we can't consider tanking will secure anything so steath tank and stay in shot of the play offs and if AD gets back to super star status maybe we can get a nice player back as well and still be a good team. Lively needs to be upping his value as well but that is not happening on restricted minutes and with him being unavailable.