12-02-2025, 03:34 PM
(12-02-2025, 12:54 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: This team is in dire, desperate need of exactly one thing: a player who can consistently and reliably create scoring advantages against good, set defenses in half court situations. The overwhelming majority of players who fit that description in the current NBA are guards.
If the guard they find is a pick and roll handler, the rest of the roster has a chance to gel with little other reshuffling. All the better.
If the guard they find can fit on a career timeline similar to Flagg’s, that’s the dream.
In a world where AD stays, would you consider Gafford/Pick for Mathurin. Indy could certainly draft a center and pay Mathurin next summer, but that would start to get expensive. Might they instead take the locked in cost for Gafford and draft the BPA with their early lottery pick?
Maybe the Laker's 29 is too much. Maybe you send that unprotected and take back a protected pick from Indy (2027?). Bottom line, Mathurin is the kind of player you are describing and there is some thought he might be available. Could be now or could be S&T in the summer, but we'd have to cut some serious salary between now and then.