We turned down #3/Sharpe for Zion?

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Natebishop3 said:
It's like when we used to shop for cars. (now we just get gouged)

You have to actually be willing to walk out the door if you don't get what you want. Threatening isn't enough. You have to make them believe that you are willing to walk away. Right now it seems like Joe has to earn the respect of the rest of the GMs because they don't think he has the balls to walk away.
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Question, then: he did walk away with this draft saying no to (rumored) trades. Is this enough to garner said respect?
 
Strenuus said:
Question, then: he did walk away with this draft saying no to (rumored) trades. Is this enough to garner said respect?
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I think it's a step in the right direction. But I have a feeling the rest of the league is watching very closely to see how Joe handles this summer.
 
Freshtown said:
Happy that Joe said no to this. A more panicked GM would have acquiesced under pressure to “get something done.”
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That was my biggest fear heading into the draft. Mortgaging the future has worked absolutely but with this crop of talent to make deals with, none of them made sense or an impact in the short term enough to mortgage long term.
 
I am not a big fan of Cronin. Other than the Grant trade last summer, I thought his off-season was really questionable. The contracts of Ant, Nurkic, and Payton were all mostly yuck. Not egregiously so, but I do believe the contract numbers of Ant & Nurkic have been biting Cronin in the butt during trade talks

But, in his short sample size of transactions, I think people are going overboard in gauging him as incompetent, even though I do think it's possible he's in a bit over his head. Bad time to be learning on the job
 
wizenheimer said:
I am not a big fan of Cronin. Other than the Grant trade last summer, I thought his off-season was really questionable. The contracts of Ant, Nurkic, and Payton were all mostly yuck. Not egregiously so, but I do believe the contract numbers of Ant & Nurkic have been biting Cronin in the butt during trade talks

But, in his short sample size of transactions, I think people are going overboard in gauging him as incompetent, even though I do think it's possible he's in a bit over his head. Bad time to be learning on the job
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Then again, if we didn't sign Simons/Nurk to those deals, we wouldn't have any contracts to match incoming salary :lol:
 
B-Roy said:
This was apparently the deal we walked away from. Marang echoed it, and so did this account:

https://twitter.com/GriffinPresser

I know it's some BS account but it seems pretty dialed in on the takes:

Knew they would take Hawkins:







IDK what the salary filler would have been. Presumably Ant, maybe Nurk/Little.

But regardless. Part of me feels like #3/Sharpe for Zion is the risky swing we never made in the Dame era. But hard to fault it. If Zion didn't average 28 games a year I'd definitely do it.

Also this:



I wonder if we tried haggling for Trey. I'd do the deal for Zion/Trey. Maybe Cronin tried, who knows.

LOL, this dude definitely knows stuff:

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Well hopefully Shaedon and Scoot become stars and Zion doesn't suddenly get healthy and lead NO to a trophy. But, yeah as is that's too much.
 
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