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Are we appreciating the FO enough?

Too early to tell. The haul they got for Mitchell/Gobert was good, long way to prove out that it was the right decision to blow it up in the first place.
 
HermanG said:
So imagine we make the most passive plan ever and decided to just hold the roster as it is for 2 years with only major moves outside of draft being Lauri and Sexton R&E to frontloaded contracts. That would also result in two additional high picks as the team is not currently constructed to compete in the West.

In that scenario, 2 years from now we could have
- Lauri and Sexton tied up to team friendly contracts for the next 3-4 years
- Top prospect (own pick) from 2026 entering his rookie year
- Top prospect (own pick) from 2025 entering his sophomore year
- Two other prospects from 2025 using Cleveland and Minny picks entering year 2
- Walker and Lofton entering year 5
- Key, TH and Brice entering year 4
- Cody, Collier and Flip entering year 3
- Plenty of cap space with both JCs out at that point, Lauri and Sexton on those assumed friendly deals and so many rookie contracts in the books
- all the picks we currently own in 2027 and beyond, plus any we might add along the way, so plenty of assets. That means all our own picks and 5 picks from LAL, Minny and Cleveland combined (all 5 extra picks in 2027 and 2029, few of them lightly protected).

Even if we cannot deal JCs for positive return, they will be FA and out of the building at that point giving us 40M cap room for that offseason.

Obviously there will be changes in the roster and trades made during that time period, so that isnt actually what we will have, but its still pretty impressive. I feel like we are not giving the FO the flowers they deserve.
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I agree that we're really well set up, but I hope that the '25 pick will go to OKC and be ~18-20 and that we'll be a 6-10 seed this year. I want a real playoff series again.
 
hgb said:
I agree that we're really well set up, but I hope that the '25 pick will go to OKC and be ~18-20 and that we'll be a 6-10 seed this year. I want a real playoff series again.
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I’d be fine with that IF they get there by playing Keyonte/Collier, Williams, Hendricks, Lofton, Kessler/Filipowski big minutes in key roles and they get to that point based on the talent they already have on the roster.
 
Step-Back Lauri said:
No one was talking about real time commentary. If you can't understand what you read,maybe stay away from message boards.
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If they were completely transparent in their future plans, that would be a strategic disadvantage when dealing with other teams.
 
Coach Ellis said:
I’d be fine with that IF they get there by playing Keyonte/Collier, Williams, Hendricks, Lofton, Kessler/Filipowski big minutes in key roles and they get to that point based on the talent they already have on the roster.
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I hope the rookie/sophomores that deserve it get meaningful minutes, for sure, but the only way I think we get there is by playing guys like JC² et.al a fair amount too. They're good players, after all.
 
HermanG said:
You been one of the most vocal guys in repeating that we lack young talent, so color me confused here.
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We just added 3 more youngs guys so now we are currently looking at 7 young guys and we should make an effort to get most of them consistent minutes. Maybe we bring over Procida as well to fight for minutes.
 
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