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Golden State is either making moves so they aren't pathetic or they are making moves so they actually have a roster with an outside **** of contending with Lauri

Can't tell
 
SoberasHotRod said:
I would much prefer them taking on Lauri without adding rotation players to their roster. Makes me less excited about their picks.
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One thing that I also came to think about is that we saw that Lauri as your best player can lead you to being a .500 team. So the "once Steph gets old they are toast" argument kinda underestimates Lauri. Danny had to shoot the wheels two seasons in a row to secure a top 10 pick. So should we somehow expect that GSW with zero incentive to tank would gift us better picks?
 
So here is a new hot take theory.

The Rental:
We trade Lauri to GSW for their draft future and few young prospect (you name them). Then 3 years from now when we have drafted three top 5 prospects and GSW is out of gas and fumes, we give them their draft picks back to get Lauri back home.

GSW gets to contend for 3 years and we get the star that loves to live and play of the Jazz back once we are ready to compete. We lose 3 years of having the guy, but gain a few young prospect and any picks we are able to cash in before we refund the rest. We can also at that point probably throw them a few young guys as we are gonna have too many anyways.
 
HermanG said:
One thing that I also came to think about is that we saw that Lauri as your best player can lead you to being a .500 team. So the "once Steph gets old they are toast" argument kinda underestimates Lauri. Danny had to shoot the wheels two seasons in a row to secure a top 10 pick. So should we somehow expect that GSW with zero incentive to tank would gift us better picks?
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I'm guessing GSW wouldn't be trading for Lauri if they didn't think they could sign him as a free agent next year, but it isn't guaranteed. Best case scenario is that Lauri decides to leave next summer, which would be pretty great for us.
 
HermanG said:
One thing that I also came to think about is that we saw that Lauri as your best player can lead you to being a .500 team. So the "once Steph gets old they are toast" argument kinda underestimates Lauri. Danny had to shoot the wheels two seasons in a row to secure a top 10 pick. So should we somehow expect that GSW with zero incentive to tank would gift us better picks?
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Well Lauri could be gone in a year and Steph is old

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