Which direction do you want the team to go the rest of the season?

[Elizah Huge]

I agree with everything except I really like Beasley. He is a pure shooter and he works hard defensively. His ability to stretch the floor off the bench is a great thing. That being said, I would guess he is not the trading block.

You think he works hard defensively?

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Amen. Even when the numbers dont show it he is the one who makes everything work. I love Sexton's energy but I really dont think he is ready to run it. Not sure I will ever think that. Even when his assist numbers are up, the ball still sticks a lot when he is on the floor.

Sexton is never going to be ready to run it. Hardy is a genius for using him the way he is.

We are more or less seeing Sexton's ceiling currently. Hopefully he can stay healthy and continue to play with a high level of attacking speed, because once his athleticism is gone he is going to be a bad NBA player.

 

[sip]

We are way ahead of where any of us thought we’d be. We already have an All-Star and borderline All-NBA player. We also have one of the best rookies from the draft who also looks like a building block for the future.

I would look at trading Beasley/KO/Vando. Those three could be traded for players and picks. I think we wouldn’t really miss a beat without them and we could potentially be even better with more playing time for the young guys. That is the best case scenario in my opinion.

Plus on top of everything we are going to get a lottery pick from Minnesota.

Being ahead of schedule is not always a good thing when building for the future. It may force us to miss out on the most important acquisition phase and completely cap our upside. Also there is no guarantee that Minny pick is in the lottery at this point.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Grady DIck, Jarace Walker, Cason Wallace, Jett Howard, Cam Whitmore, Ausuar Thompson, Keyonte George, Anthony Black, GG Jackson.

These guys could all be available in that 8-14 range and if you are making the playoffs you are going to miss out on them. They could be the difference between you being a real contender 3-4 years down the line and not being a real contender.

 

[sip]

ok bud.

Yes, I will die on the KO has been very good this year and helps us win games hill. Please take your stupid small sample size BS you are pulling and shove it up your ***.

KO was great for the first couple weeks of the year. After that it was a steady decline.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Being ahead of schedule is not always a good thing when building for the future. It may force us to miss out on the most important acquisition phase and completely cap our upside. Also there is no guarantee that Minny pick is in the lottery at this point.

Being ahead of schedule with Mitchell is one of the biggest reasons are team stalled out so quickly. If we had a year or two of missing the playoffs with MItchell, we'd probably be much better set up.

 

[Elizah Huge]

Being ahead of schedule is not always a good thing when building for the future. It may force us to miss out on the most important acquisition phase and completely cap our upside. Also there is no guarantee that Minny pick is in the lottery at this point.

What do you mean by most important acquisition phase?

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

KO was great for the first couple weeks of the year. After that it was a steady decline.

Noted, the 4/5 averaging 12/5/3 on 41% 3pt shooting actually sucks and hurts the team.

 

[Elizah Huge]

Being ahead of schedule with Mitchell is one of the biggest reasons are team stalled out so quickly. If we had a year or two of missing the playoffs with MItchell, we'd probably be much better set up.

This is just weird thinking. How we’re we going to be bad with both Gobert and Mitchell?

That team also didn’t have the most future 1sts in the league (14) either.

 

[Elizah Huge]

Noted, the 4/5 averaging 12/5/3 on 41% 3pt shooting actually sucks and hurts the team.

When he was starting over Kessler and playing terrible defense it hurt the team. Groundbreaking stuff I know.

 

[Korisfani]

I'm not 100% sure how valuable, "playoff experience" is? I personally still think getting a better contributor from the draft is more important. The reason I voted for don't care is that I'm just not sure our potential for wins/losses has that much of a range.

Yeah, I would pick getting a starting5 player over one playoff series, obviously. But as you said the difference is the potential of, let's say, picks 20 vs. 11.

A team needs playoff experience in some way. I doubt a team with a core with zero experience would make it to the Finals straight away their first time.

Some of that experience you can buy on the market with the currency you have (the picks). But the scenario right now is Markkanen and Kessler playing huge roles on that competing team and possibly some of the players yet to be drafted there as well. During at least the last 15 years the only team to make the Finals their first time is the Suns with Booker/Ayton/Bridges.

Markkanen has big-game experience with the national team, but it's not quite the same - the difference with the FIBA game is already quite big.

 

[Tremendous Upside]

Didnt even bother reading after that statement. Jesus Christ.

I like Conley, he's obviously a great dude. And when he's played well, his ability to control the tempo and move the ball has been important. But there's no getting around the fact that his perimeter D is nonexistent at this point. He plays a position where you have to be really quick to stay with guys, and Mike just doesn't have it anymore at 35. Plus he's small, which is a bigger disadvantage than ever these days, with teams using bone crushing screens at the point of attack on almost every possession to create mismatches.

We only have subpar defenders in our regular guard rotation, which is the main reason our overall D has been among the worst in the league lately. If we had a great defender to pair up with Conley, the situation would be different... but we don't.