Whats your preference trade the picks for Dame time or keep one or both and trade Dame? Maybe they could trade up and get that out of the gate super star for Dame Time?
My preference is to get lucky in the lottery and land a front court player who would make an immediate impact and be an all star player while Dame is still playing at an all nba or all star level or trade the picks for someone who is already an all star. When I say picks, I think if we're going all in on Dame the way that Cronin said we are about to, then we should do the small thing that it takes to get Chicago to let us lift the conditions on the pick we will owe them next season, so we can also trade up to three future firsts in order to build a win now team for Dame. That's my preference.
Agree about Dame, I'm glad it appears that he direction for the next few years anyway. I hope Grant isn't who Joe is targeting . You'd think with the picks and player current assets we'd be able to maybe get target a guy like Brown? I see Boston maybe breaking them up? I mean, its possible we have a new GM before draft night and a plan is already in place.
I think if we did drop the conditions on the pick we owe the Bulls, lets just say for the later of our two second rounders then our future firsts starting in 2025 are open. I could then see us trading our pick if it was 4-6, a future first or two and both Bledsoe and Hart for Brown. Then I think the Pelicans pick for Grant would make sense. Obviously we'd re-sign Ant and Nurk at that point. We could get a really good backup big for the TPMLE (Portis or Boucher) and maybe even another with our second rounder (Adji).
He's just raw. Those quick twitch muscles for bigs seem to fire a bit later and the kid is only 18. He looks kinda like dale davis today
Even top 3 is not set in stone. Only top 2 so far. People are dropping Paolo below 5 in some instances which seems wild to me
Am I the only one who was unaware of his brother? Are they gonna be the next set of NBA twins?
He’s built like DHoward.
They even run alike. Glad Iowa has big jersey numbers
I've been pretty cool on him from the start but his size is hard to dismiss. Need to see who else jumps up in the mocks. We're still two months from workouts where guys can have a big jump.
Thinking through everything rather than operating on instinct and muscle memory, perhaps?
Yeah, if we have a new GM that doesn't want to continue to build around Dame then Duren would be an ideal pick with the Pelicans pick. Especially if we got the first or second pick and got one of the more offensively polished Banchero or Smith with it. If that were the case you would trade Dame for Jaylen Brown and whatever picks and filler you could get out of the Celtics and let Nurk walk. At that point we could renounce our rights to Nurk, tell Ant to wait so we could just have his cap hold instead of his new salary that will be far greater than that hold and see if we can pry Miles Bridges away from Charlotte for a max deal. Ant, Brown, Bridges, Banchero or Smith and Duren. With Nas, Hart, Williams, Greg, Trendon, Didi, Winslow and a big with our second rounder coming off the bench would be pretty fun to watch and would be scary for everyone in the league.
I’m torn on Duren because his complete lack of offensive skills, other than dunks, putbacks and finishing around the basket. He is also a terrible passer. He’s like the anti-Nurk. Nurk sucks at finishing around the basket but that’s about all Duren can do.
I still think if the Pelicans pick is early enough to get him that we don't need a backup C with that pick we need to trade it for a legit immediate contributor... if we're building around Dame. If we are building around Dame and we can get Jerami Grant for that pick... Dame would be rightfully livid if we took Duren instead.
I think we have very, very different opinions on Jerami Grant. If we trade any (decent) lottery pick for Jerami Grant I’ll be livid.
If there was a way to get Grant and Siakam without giving up Ant, I wouldn't give a flying **** how Grant felt about it.
Why is it that you say that? He took the most money possible and yes was excited to be the first option but if he was talking to Dame about teaming up he knows he wouldn't be the first option anymore and the fact is if he believes in himself he'll have the confidence to come in here and try to earn touches that would otherwise go to Ant, Siakam and Nurk before him and I don't think as it stands that Nurk would get touches before him. The dude can both get to the hoop really well and finish by cutting without the ball and putting the ball on the floor as well and he can hit open spot up threes. He's also a really good defender. I don't think he'd have a problem at all if he was starting on a championship team and we paid him.
