Unless you need a defensive stopper to round your team off for a playoffs run, I think Cissoko is a much more rounded, skilled and accomplished player at this point.
I quite agree with that. Not easy to make the right choice. Hope DA and his team keep doing some magic.
Is Cam really that much better than what we’re looking at ror pick #9 to spend extra assets?
He’s in play for me at 28 but not any sooner. I used to be altogether opposed but his measurables are indeed top-notch and I realized he could maybe be a draft and stash which I really value.
Basically yes. I think that it what it they want in minimum if we dont send lauri or walker in the process. Its just that that 28 pick is not very valuable. And Utah have what 13 first round picks in next 5 years? And i like the kid (Scoot) already.
I would not quite go that far... but I think that is something we should consider with our treasure trove of firsts. If you can do #9 and like 3 unprotected firsts they can route those firsts to a team in a win now deal during FA... or at least convince Dame that is the plan. They can also split the baby.
Imo that’s too expensive to move I’m guessing two spots. We can still get a good building block with 16
Holy shnizzballs Batman!!! I’m not trading 6-7 picks for the rights to draft a rookie that may or may not be really good draft picks at any spot is a crapshoot. Just think how this trade would set us back if he turns out to not be a superstar. Not only do you limit your ability to get better you now can’t buy a star unless a star free agent chooses Utah. When has that ever happened?
6-7 is excessive, but I like the thought of making the superstar trade before the guy is a superstar as there is a little more upside to offset the risk. I think 9+3 picks is the line I wouldn't cross probably... and you'd have to feel pretty good about Scoot or Miller... I do.
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Anyway "experts" say that Scoot would be close 1 pick in another draft and he would also be in the rookie deal in few years. So Utah would have plenty of caproom to make more moves. Also you just dont collect picks, you try to make a winning team. It just depends what you think about Scoot. I think that he has a good potential to be very good player, maybe even all-star in the future. It just that you seldom have chance to get up in draft to get such a potential player. And it is possible to change the deal a bit, because now its very favorable to Portland i think (they get Embiid). If Portland sends on that 3 team deal Nurtic and A.Simons to Philadelphia, then maybe its enough to send 9, 16, 28 2023 draft picks and lakers first and something like 2 firsts to Philadelphia and philadelphia sends embiid to Portland and portland Scoot for Utah. I know it still is somewhere 5 firsts for Scoot, but one is just late first rounder (28?). I think that would be a good deal to Portland and for Utah. Not sure what philadelphia would think about it though (they have to give up Embiid) and start over.
First of all... as I have said already, I have not watched enough of these players to have this strong of opinion on any of them, but IF Danny feels strongly about any of them, I think we should seriously consider packaging some of our picks to move up to get him(whoever it is - Scoot, Miller, Whitmore, Amen?). Right now we are in the beginning of our rebuild, but relatively soon we will start having trouble rostering all those draft picks and we will start losing some of them for nothing or close to nothing. This happened with some of the recent picks Ainge had in Boston because they had too many 1st rounders they were unable to package and consolidate into one or two bigger/better pieces.
