07-30-2023, 10:10 AM
(07-29-2023, 05:58 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: I think this is astute, and the team should be actively fighting like hell to make it reality.I’ve very much appreciated not having to argue the fit for him on the team. On discord I literally had to explain how him being one of the best offensive rebounders in the league was a good thing. The counter argument was that we needed rim protection in the fastbreak. So, I thank you!
I think Capela moves the needle in that direction, but that there are better, more needle moving uses of '27 in the near future.
Several probably would. I would not be among them.
I would still watch and hope the team played well, including Capela, whom I like for this team.
I sometimes think it isn’t a bad idea to hold our ground on what we are offering like you have argued. I just know, training camp is pretty crucial to getting guys on the same page quickly. I also used to love the great jumpstarts to the season watching Dirk for all those years. We haven’t really seen that since he’s left.
As I said in the news thread and I know you won’t agree based on your thoughts of value towards the young guys and the 27, but I think the unprotected 27 is about the value of Green, the trade down of 5 spots in the draft and Atl paying the 2 SRPs to OKC for taking on McGee. As I said, I think of the value of that pick as being in the 20-30 range and it sounds like your valuation of it is in the top 4. That sounds like the real difference we are having.
I know I have considered what I think is the unlikely possibility that it is top 4 as I’m sure you’ve considered my valuation (as well as the in between). I just think, if like you’ve said in another discussion (maybe it was dfs98, or maybe FGump?), that if we can do what we’ve done this offseason in the majority of the next 6 offseasons, we’ll be sitting pretty when the two picks convey. We certainly won’t have the derth of value we had this one!
Also, based on our discussion and my knowledge of your history, I wouldn’t expect you to be one of the people who flips the script in the way I was describing to mvossman. I know you would hate the trade from a value standpoint, but would give Cap the needed time to see if he does what we think he’d do.