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Official Utah/Minnesota/Philadelphia Pick Watch

sip said:
Yeah we were. The lakers really wanted Dlo and they had nothing to offer Minny for him to make salaries match. Ainge somehow completely blew a negotiation where he had most of the leverage.
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Jazz got the best asset in the trade. Minnesota was the team with the power. Lakers did not really want DLo. It was just a convenient option for them.
 
Looking at the standings and Minnesota could pretty easily get to the 22nd pick. That would be extremely disappointing. I'm hoping they do the thing they've done all year once they look like they are putting it together and lose a bunch of inexplicable games.

Their remaining schedule is @Pheonix, LAL, POR, @Brooklyn, @SAS, NOR
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Hes not good enough to pay (the money required to) be a backup behind two all star caliber bigs. He's good and he will find a team that needs him more.

Also ****ing hilarious you are a big Reid dick rider but can't seem to find any positive about Filipowski. Very similar prospects but Flip is more talented.
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Never seen someone so triggered by how someone has evaluated a random draft dude… weird.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
Looking at the standings and Minnesota could pretty easily get to the 22nd pick. That would be extremely disappointing. I'm hoping they do the thing they've done all year once they look like they are putting it together and lose a bunch of inexplicable games.

Their remaining schedule is @Pheonix, LAL, POR, @Brooklyn, @SAS, NOR
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That team is still bipolar… they will lose one game they shouldn’t. I think Phoenix and the Lakers have a shot at beating them (there is some very big conspiracy worthy stuff going on in LA with FT disparity). I’d say they are like 70/30 to be a 6 seed vs play in.
 
Conley is better than Dlo… Conley had a shot to break down as well… but what is being ignored is that they could be basically in the same place… maybe a game or two different… and we might be 3-4 games better because Conley > Dlo but Conley >>>>> THT

It is still weird to me that Lakers wanted Dlo over Conley with where they are on their timeline.
 
Jazz had the least amount of power in the trade. Why? Because we wanted to get off a large salary in 2023/2024 and we had the most assets.

The Lakers gave up the most valuable piece and are asset poor. All they got in the trade were rotation players on expiring contracts. I would certainly argue they should have had to give up more, but they had nothing to give.

Utah was in the biggest position of desperation. From the reports they had other trades for Beasley/Vanderbilt but no one wanted to take on Conley because of his contract for next year. And that's the biggest sticker, no one was going to take Conley for free. Utah clearly wanted to free up playing time to see what Sexton had as a starter and free up space for free agency.

Minnesota was the team who got the least valuable (not talking about player quality, but what the market value was) pieces, so they had the most power. Like HH was saying, DLo was playing very well on an individual level, so they could believably play the hand of being OK with sticking with Russell. The Lakers had nothing to squeeze so they had to turn to Utah (where having so many assets is a negative) to squeeze as a price of being a conduit to complete the trade.
 
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