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The middle ground is where I’m at: trade down rather than reach (if you’re confident in your intel). Getting Kon at 8 and picking up multiple 1sts > picking Kon at 5.

I’m also into the idea of allowing one transfer that doesn’t force you to sit out a year, but just one.

You don’t think mid majors have NIL money? Most of these schools have Scrooge McDuck money, even if they’re not Harvard. Three years ago BYU was a total afterthought as a program. NIL has been good to them.

I hated this draft from what little research I did. My only take was Fred Vanvleet looked like he was gonna be good and I was confused why no one was talking about him.

Taking on PG’s contract (and us throwing in sweeteners) is to get the 3rd pick outright, not a trade up from 5. Eating PG’s dead money to move up two spots to maybe draft the same guy you might get at 5 is utter brain-dead bull ****.

So is the hope/idea that Kon and/or Kas is an RBI?

Portis was my guy after Turner was off the board. I think I get a gold star. I didn’t care about Booker though.

Maybe the biggest red flag is that he would be lucky to be Tony Snell.

Should probably rehab value unless a team gets crazy by draft day.

Another way of looking at this is that they correctly identified 12 of the top 14 in a historically flat draft.

It’s worth noting that there is a good chance we enter a recession in the next year or two which would change this outlook. The basketball gods also demand real effort and sacrifice to grant their gifts.

You left out “I don’t know and I don’t care to guess because I have already given up but would love to be wrong.”

Don’t know where best to tuck this, but I’m pretty into the idea of selling high on Kessler, dodging the extension, then drafting Wolf and Beringer later in the draft.

Queen processes faster or slower, by your estimation? He doesn’t impress me. Like, at all. How he moves almost angers me.

I can’t remember who said it on this board, but they mentioned how cringy Dybantsa behaves and I can’t see him as anything else now.

There’s a reason why almost nobody plays like this anymore, and the only ones that do have post-players that are MVP calibre. It’s bad basketball unless captained by an elite talent. I’ll believe that Yang is that guy when I see it. I anticipate that there will be several other players left on...

His efficiency metrics would suggest otherwise.

Queen reminds me too much of Big Al (if Big Al was a better passer, maybe it’s just how he “moves”) and I just cannot get into that. I’m forever scarred by that bum.

Simplifying further, order of priority: 1. Offensive engines (players that generate open shots with the ball in their hands and/or elite gravity) 2. infrastructure pieces (+ secondary playmakers, defensive pieces, and/or shooters) 3. pure scorers (empty-ish calories)

The question for me is if there is enough evidence to believe that they will be those guys. I think letting hopes (moreso than good evidence) lead our decision making is a trap. If the evidence isn’t strong enough then I think building infrastructure for a star by trading down (and up) is worth...