05-18-2023, 04:05 PM
Definitely enough "they're trading the pick" smoke to believe that's what's going to happen regardless of who's there.
What's strange to me is that this team seems to lack pretty basic things, tough defense in the front court and rebounding. Rookies get minutes by playing defense and rebounding and doing their best to knock down shots, why does everyone feel like a rookie doing those things wouldn't help this team in a HUGE way?
I understand that you can whiff with that pick but we also whiffed trading a pick for a vet last year in Wood. Just look at Christian Braun, that roster is 10 times deeper than ours but he's still getting playoff rotation minutes as a rookie. A player of his caliber can be had at 10 and would help us from day 1. The entire rhetoric feels like the front office thinks we're close than we actually are.
Maybe the Luka pressure is real but it really feels like we're going to just continue to mortgage everything and hope for the best and I'm worried about what this franchise will look like 5 years from now because of it. Luka could definitely pull a "Dirk saves all butts" sort of run over the next few years but it seems like poor front office decisions will not lead to saved butts with Luka.
What's strange to me is that this team seems to lack pretty basic things, tough defense in the front court and rebounding. Rookies get minutes by playing defense and rebounding and doing their best to knock down shots, why does everyone feel like a rookie doing those things wouldn't help this team in a HUGE way?
I understand that you can whiff with that pick but we also whiffed trading a pick for a vet last year in Wood. Just look at Christian Braun, that roster is 10 times deeper than ours but he's still getting playoff rotation minutes as a rookie. A player of his caliber can be had at 10 and would help us from day 1. The entire rhetoric feels like the front office thinks we're close than we actually are.
Maybe the Luka pressure is real but it really feels like we're going to just continue to mortgage everything and hope for the best and I'm worried about what this franchise will look like 5 years from now because of it. Luka could definitely pull a "Dirk saves all butts" sort of run over the next few years but it seems like poor front office decisions will not lead to saved butts with Luka.