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If no one is untouchable, why are we even doing this? The goal is not to acquire assets, it is to win games. We traded Donny and Rudy when they both had lots of tread left on the tires. Continuing to do that is ridiculous.
 
bigmike said:
Yes on Lauri, Yes on Keyonte.

"Untouchable" may have been a stretch but there's no desire to trade a guy who's 7' and shoots ~50/40/85. Perfect off-ball scoring threat in today's game. Lots of organizational belief in KG's raw ability. They want to let him play through early-career bumps in the road.
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gomretat said:
If no one is untouchable, why are we even doing this? The goal is not to acquire assets, it is to win games. We traded Donny and Rudy when they both had lots of tread left on the tires. Continuing to do that is ridiculous.
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There's an emphasis so much on the means to the ends that we end up viewing the means as the ultimate ends.
 
We have two paths forward at this time. We have 12 months to really decide imo. Either make a trade with some of the assets to put a fringe AS type player next to Lauri that makes the fit work as well and hope the kids grow fast. Move Lauri and embark on the longer process with even more assets to hopefully ensure it is successful.

I really see that as the two paths even if we extend Lauri this summer (which we should do either way). We could extend Lauri but if we don't put an AS around him I think we end up moving him a year or two later. Its just hard to embark on a 3-4 year patient process with an all star that is 26. I understand the approach as you are hoping the right thing shakes loose... imagine a Tyrese Haliburton type player becomes available... or you are hoping a rookie becomes a huge fast success.
 
bigmike said:
Let's just say there is one untouchable player on the roster, and 1-2 others they would prefer to keep. Everyone else - and I mean everyone (including those 1-2) - is available for the right price. The goal remains to build our war chest of draft capital/cap space and be extremely aggressive in the trade market throughout 2024-2025.

FO is higher on this draft than most (including us collectively). Maybe that's real, maybe that's just for the perceived value of a top 5 pick from a return standpoint.

Gonna get worse before it gets much, much better.
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So sellers and not buyers this and next season is what I hear you saying. Seriously??? Like we don’t have enough in the “untouchable” War Chest already. I’m outing Ainge as the real life Christian Barbow in his quest to collect and horde his precious 30 Coins.
 
Release the Kraken said:
So sellers and not buyers this and next season is what I hear you saying. Seriously??? Like we don’t have enough in the “untouchable” War Chest already. I’m outing Ainge as the real life Christian Barbow in his quest to collect and horde his precious 30 Coins.
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When you really look at it closely we don't have that much in the so called war chest right now. The next couple Minny picks have a high likelihood of being late 1st rd pick. The potential of the cavs picks are starting to look a little better but I still think they are likely mid 1st rd picks at best. It is impossible to have a good feel for that laker pick right now but I doubt it is viewed all that highly in a trade right now. Then of course our own pick can't even be traded with the thunder having protection on it. Then you look at our young prospects and there isn't a ton of trade value there either with them all being unproven and Hardy not all that focused on developing them.
 
bigmike said:
Yes on Lauri, Yes on Keyonte.

"Untouchable" may have been a stretch but there's no desire to trade a guy who's 7' and shoots ~50/40/85. Perfect off-ball scoring threat in today's game. Lots of organizational belief in KG's raw ability. They want to let him play through early-career bumps in the road.
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Except he hasn’t been 50/40/85 this year and hasn’t been as good this year. This team construction is completely broken. The only players right now I don’t want to see traded is the rookies and sophomores everyone else should go for the right price.
 
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