Because they’re completely boxed in. They don’t have their own picks. They got completely destroyed in the playoffs while healthy. What can they do to change it?
step 1 - Suns hired a new coach
new cba on the horizon, chilly deadline.
Won’t make a difference. The roster is massively flawed.
look, they got suckered by the Blazers. It's not the Suns fault. Cronin & Billups padded the hell out of Drew Eubanks stats, and Phoenix honestly thought they were signing a double double backup Center. Instead they got a worse version of the Spurs G-League Eubanks, and the typical "what happened to Nassir?" setup.
Plus they got playoff Nurk.
Spurs would say no. Pretty sure Topic will be there, and pretty sure they want to pair him with Wemby. I doubt they'd risk missing out on him.
That feels unlikely to me, but perhaps I'm just down on Ant's value. I think Ivey+5 for Ant would be a freaking steal (especially given the salary savings).
What’s your salary match, Fournier? league year doesn’t start until 7/1, Pistons would have to pick up his TO before draft night.
I could be convinced that someone in the lottery is going to be really good. But I don’t really see it—and I’ve watched a lot of tape on these guys.
There is no gun to our head to trade Ant now.
I like this trade less than you do.
The claim that a 5 pick in this draft "clearly adds nothing to assist in our future team build" seems a bit presumptive.
Nearly every mock has guys like Sheppard/Dilli/Topic around 5. These are guys we most likely would not touch regardless of where we ended in the lotto.
Buzelis expected to go at five in most mocks I’ve seen.
Then (unless this is the worst draft in history) that should happen without hesitation. I'm not sure we can, though.
Highly doubt we can get Ant for #5.
Are you saying Ant is worth more than #5? I don't think so. Fans on this board are on two extremes;
I'm not very high on Buzelis.
You can make this point without the lecture about general forum opinions.
