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Primer wrote: View Post
Call me crazy but I think it's 100% necessary to always have some guys in their primes on your NBA team. Young guys don't get better only playing with other young inexperienced guys. Also their primes will last 5 years, so even if it takes 3 years for the others to catch up Pascal and FVV will still be in their primes ready to bring home another title.
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Primer wrote: View Post
Call me crazy but I think it's 100% necessary to always have some guys in their primes on your NBA team. Young guys don't get better only playing with other young inexperienced guys. Also their primes will last 5 years, so even if it takes 3 years for the others to catch up Pascal and FVV will still be in their primes ready to bring home another title.
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LJ2 wrote: View Post
There's the probable max extension for Barnes, and raises for the young core to consider down the road. The way Fred has been playing he's not going to sign for $20M per on his next deal. Siakam won't get another max, but it'll be lucrative.
Then there is the matter of whether you can win a championship with this core or not. If we max out as a 50 win team then one or both of the older core are who you would trade for the final piece(s).
My point here is that it's one core right now, but when you look down the road it looks a lot like these guys may not compete for a title together.
You also can't just keep punting and punting and punting the can along the road and hope that the team will some how jell and get it together. so the moves to move back I haven't really heard a solid argument in favor. Most teams have a number of guys just coming off or on their rookie scale deals.
I do think there will be a decision that will eventually have to be made between fred and pascal but not necessarily. Also does that decision have to be done now?
You need a mix of young and old players in most situations to truly win the title. UNLESS you are able to cobble together a super team at the right time. Miami is a good example where everything aligned but that is rare and as we saw... a team like THAT or any super team of that nature is very difficult to keep together. Financially its difficult and chemistry wise its also difficult.
Patience is key. Again though this is another reason why we should not be tanking this year. It would be a waste of a year and then you would essentially have two guys who you would have to max out.
either way its hard to judge Siakam's next deal today in terms of how lucrative because by then there will be some new tv deal in place.
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Primer wrote: View Post
Call me crazy but I think it's 100% necessary to always have some guys in their primes on your NBA team. Young guys don't get better only playing with other young inexperienced guys. Also their primes will last 5 years, so even if it takes 3 years for the others to catch up Pascal and FVV will still be in their primes ready to bring home another title.
Philadelphia was filled with very good young players but without proper mentorship achieved nothing.
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Jclaw wrote: View Post
Yeah...someone was talking the other day saying the top five rooks look like Mobley, Scottie, Cade, Wagner and Giddey. I remember noting that Suggs didn't even make the list. Didn't even think about Green
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https://twitter.com/mike_schmitz/sta...616090624?s=21
Jabari Smith would be a nice get for any of these four bottom feeders this season:
Houston:
Sengun
Smith
Green
KPJ
OKC:
Smith
Dort
Giddey
SGA
Orlando:
Smith
Wagner
Suggs
WCJ/ Bamba/ Isaac - ??? (iffy who they consider as part of their future core)
Detroit:
Smith
Stewart
Cade
of the four teams, I like Jabari Smith’s fit with Houston and Orlando depending on who is the current big they rid of
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saints91 wrote: View PostUnless it’s a sign and trade scenario and we are moving out close to equal salary, we are unable to add one of the top free agents. We will have exceptions to use to help build out our bench or add a lower tier 5
Worth noting, we have full Bird Rights to both Boucher and Thad, so if one of them is open to it they could be the ballast in a sign and trade for a huge salary (would likely require us overpaying him with a huge salary and in return getting the second and third years of the deal unguaranteed so the deal is long enough to qualify for a SnT). The salary we take in could be a free agent sign and trade or just a trade for a player.
More likely we keep Thad or Boucher on an overpay short term deal that can be used as trade ballast at the deadline like Dragic this year.
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TomAmnot wrote: View PostAny chance we get one of the top free agents this summer? Is it even possible with the salaries?
Do with that information what you will.9 time first team all-RR, First Ballot Hall of Forum
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KeonClark wrote: View Post
It's a bad free agent class, nobody wants to come to Toronto in any free agent class, and we got no space
Do with that information what you will.
We need a TFTW trade proposal.
Minimum 7 team parlay.over/under
Last edited by Demographic Shift; Fri Feb 18, 2022, 06:34 PM.There's no such thing as a 2nd round bust.
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