Damn, you might have chosen the two biggest upside guys in the draft in Sharpe and Sochan but also the two guys taken in the lotto who might be the most unlikely to start for a playoff team next season. If we're building a contender around Dame as soon as possible and you can turn Sochan or Eason into Grant... I think you do it. People are sleeping on Grant because he proved he's not a first option but he's never been a second option and has proven that he can be a great third option. Grant is better than Larry or RoCo on both ends of the court. Just look at the dude's numbers, especially when he was playing a role closer to what he'd be playing here.
I am with you on shopping our future firsts and if something materializes trading a future second or the Memphis second and/or sending cash to the Bulls to guarantee that pick. I think that's a must. Hell you could make a deal that wouldn't complete until the new league year begins and include our 2029 first as well... but isn't this idea (that I think is spectacular) completely contradictory to the logic you're using in the rest of your post?
Were you trying to be facetious with the last part? If you weren’t, I don’t get what you’re trying to say. If you were, it’s fine I didn’t get it anyways so no reason for me to look at you sideways lol.
I haven’t really changed my mind on the Jeremi Grant situation. If you can unprotect next year’s first with just the MEM second and give up a top-10 protected pick another year to DET for Grant, fine. I expect us to not be in this position for awhile, so I don’t mind giving up a future first, even lightly protected. But I’m not giving up 4 cheap years of Sochan or Eason for possibly one year of Grant.
I honestly laugh at everyone who says “have you talked to Grant? How do you know what’s going on in his head?” lol. What you do speaks more to me than what you say. He took the same amount to go to a worse team and be the man, his stats got worse, why is “he’s on a bad team” suddenly justify his efficiency? We can always agree to disagree on the matter—but Grant is worth more like a non-lotto pick + Louzada + Bledsoe’s contract to me, not a lotto pick.
____/Little/Sharpe
Grant/Eason/Watford? Yes please. But
____/Little/Sharpe
Grant/Watford? I’m good chief.
I don’t need the lotto picks to necessarily start right away. If Bledsoe’s contract and the TPE plus future assets can land a PF, I don’t have a problem starting Little.
I’d be alright with Grant for the NOP pick if someone who’s talked to him and knows what’s going on in his head can tell me he’s willing to stay on for more than just a year and not go off to the next rebuilding city though. That’d really ease my mind lol.
