At what point do you trade the pick?
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Agreed. I don't think you trade this years pick even if it's the worst case scenario...which I think is the 10th pick in the draft. Keeping in mind that outside of the consensus #1 pick in the draft anyone, and I mean anyone can rise or drop in the draft after the combines and private work outs.
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Fun to think about. I think we start having this conversation once we know our draft position. Nice thing about this draft is if we get a high draft pick we can get our 3 (Barnes/MKG), if we get a lower draft pick we can get our 1 (Lillard/Marshall). So the trade scenario will have to be specific for me to even consider it. That being said, we should start fielding calls for trading the pick after we get our draft order and see some workouts.Welp, that sucked.
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Lets not totally gloom & doom on our draft position. Remember what happened with Cleveland last year...their 8th slot (the Clippers pick) became the 1st on lottery day. I dont believe one can seriously mull the trade question until we at least know our draft position after the lottery...and it also depends on who remains on the board by the time our pick is on the clock.
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Bendit wrote: View PostLets not totally gloom & doom on our draft position. Remember what happened with Cleveland last year...their 8th slot (the Clippers pick) became the 1st on lottery day. I dont believe one can seriously mull the trade question until we at least know our draft position after the lottery...and it also depends on who remains on the board by the time our pick is on the clock.
To try and play along, assuming the thread was talking about trading down/out of the draft as opposed to trading up (which would require more than just the Raptors' lottery pick), I would think the Raptors would be happy drafting a player at least down to #6 (Davis, MKG, Beal, TRob, Drummond, Barnes), or basically as far down as Barnes drops. I still think the Raptors like Barnes, at least as their 3rd favourite wing. If those happen to be the top-6 picks and the Raptors pick at #7 or lower, then there could be a whole new level of trade discussion going on. At that point, I could realistically see the Raps trading their pick for a lower lottery pick, to draft Marshall as the PG-of-the-future, along with another asset.
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Keep the pick or trade down a few spots
I'd keep the pick. I think it would be hard to trade it for two mid round picks, at least in this year's draft, and I'd prefer to keep building from within. With the log jam imminent among the bigs and the need to bolster at 1, 2 and 3 it looks like a current roster player or two may be moving on. Amir and Ed get the most talk regarding this and keeping a higher pick to add to the bigs doesn't seem ideal when JV is coming. If Raps land in high in the draft and see a player they can trade down to to get, then there might be some motive for that, but otherwise stand pat with the draft pick. Let's wait and see how the lottery shakes out.
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