Second rounders?

[UKRAINEFAN]

So we could have had Furphy and Bona. Or many other combinations of good players...

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

A team can have three two way players and I don't think the guys we have already there are really super players.

 

[B-Roy]

That sucks. All gonna be 45+ picks.

 

[LayneStaley]

I woulda took both the players we just drafted over several players currently sitting at the end of our bench.

 

[Irish Trader]

Are we securing draft picks to up the price of the franchise at the expense of improving the team. There is always a nugget in the second round. Dam take a chance at a low cost salary.

 

[LayneStaley]

That sucks. All gonna be 45+ picks.

Exciting times, we are gonna be loaded with picks in 5 years.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Kolek! All right! Now get his Marquette teammate with the pick we just got from OKC

I guess I'm a Knicks fan now

 

[PDXFonz]

Are we securing draft picks to up the price of the franchise at the expense of improving the team. There is always a nugget in the second round. Dam take a chance at a low cost salary.

This is the same logic that makes stockpiling 2nd round picks so exciting.

 

[Graduate32]

That sucks. All gonna be 45+ picks.

They won't be great, but it's simply small asset collection. They'll all likely be traded before 2027 comes around anyway.

 

[LayneStaley]

Are we securing draft picks to up the price of the franchise at the expense of improving the team. There is always a nugget in the second round. Dam take a chance at a low cost salary.

Jody needs to sell and Chauncey needs to be fired. Keep Cronin for now, I bet he’s being told to make some of these moves.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

So we started with 4 picks and we'll probably end up with just Clingan? This makes me afraid that Cronin is really going to hang on to all our vets (apart from Brogdon, obvs.)

 

[B-Roy]

Exciting times, we are gonna be loaded with picks in 5 years.

We're still -2 second round draft picks overall in the next 5 years. We have 7 outgoing and now 5 incoming.

 

[MickZagger]

There’s contributors taken in the 2nd round every year. Especially at 34.

The coaching staff is like why in the fuck did you waste our time working out 44 players only to just kick the can down the road

 

[Irish Trader]

This is the same logic that makes stockpiling 2nd round picks so exciting.

We need a nugget now not four and five years down the road

 

[Rastapopoulos]

It's not like we have a ton of roster spots to fill for these marginal second round players.

We do have a ton of roster spots. They're currently being kept warm by players with names like Banton and Murray.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Who or what did we get for 40?

 

[andalusian]

The coaching staff is like why in the fuck did you waste our time working out 44 players only to just kick the can down the road

There is value in understanding when not to make selections too... I am certain that all the time "wasted" to evaluate all these people helped in the decision to skip them...

 

[Rastapopoulos]

We need a nugget now not four and five years down the road

Spoken like a fellow oldie. Don't try to sell me green bananas!

 

[B-Roy]

We're still -2 second round draft picks overall in the next 5 years. We have 7 outgoing and now 5 incoming.

Actually I'm wrong. We're even. In 2027 Charlotte gets swap rights with our second round pick. We then traded that pick top 55 protected for Banton. So I guess it's possible we lose that pick if we're a top 5 team then, but unlikely.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

There is value in understanding when not to make selections too... I am certain that all the time "wasted" to evaluate all these people helped in the decision to skip them...

They didn't evaluate Shead or McCullar

 

[Tince]

We do have a ton of roster spots. They're currently being kept warm by players with names like Banton and Murray.

We have a ton of roster spots?

Most these second rounders won't even have as good of careers as marginal players like Banton and Murray. Hard for me to get too worked up about this either way. Nothing burger.

 

[Chris Craig]

Who or what did we get for 40?

We traded it for 52 and a future pick I think

 

[MarinerDNA]

We traded 34 and 40 for future picks in the high 40's - 50's in drafts that will likely have weaker 2nd round talent (this year was exceptional).

Awful. Deflating. Pointless.

 

[Mediocre Man]

We traded it for 52 and a future pick I think

Thank you

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Who's left? Shead, McCullar, Freeman, Ingram, Newton, Bridges...

 

[Irish Trader]

There is value in understanding when not to make selections too... I am certain that all the time "wasted" to evaluate all these people helped in the decision to skip them...

Based on great players we passed on in the past in late and second round not sure their evaluation process is all that great. Dam take a swing at a position of need or to replace a traded vet.

 

[andalusian]

They didn't evaluate Shead or McCullar

Didn't have them in for workouts maybe. I am certain they evaluated them.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

We traded 34 and 40 for future picks in the high 40's - 50's in drafts that will likely have weaker 2nd round talent (this year was exceptional).

Awful. Deflating. Pointless.

I agree that this was probably a very good year because of all the 5th year Covid guys. That's not going to happen again (well, ignoring Bird Flu...)

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Didn't have them in for workouts maybe. I am certain they evaluated them.

I evaluated Dalano Banton and I conclude that there are plenty of players in this second round I'd cut him for

 

[B-Roy]

Didn't have them in for workouts maybe. I am certain they evaluated them.

McCullar was/is injured.