zeke
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It's gonna be hard to completely tank with 4 good starters even though the rest of the roster stinks.
Trade Poeltl asap.
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It's gonna be hard to completely tank with 4 good starters even though the rest of the roster stinks.
Trade Poeltl asap.
MindzEye
Wayward Ditch Pig
This is dumb.
Not that trading Poeltl is dumb, but if you think that holding BBQ's career hostage for 2 years to compete with professional tank job organizations is going to end well, you're nuts.
zeke
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1. Agree on 2yrs...but it seems clear they're trying to punt for at least this year anyways. Poeltl said as much already.
2. Poeltl is just ok and older than the rest and might get us a similar quality younger piece.
MindzEye
Wayward Ditch Pig
There's punt and then there's punt though.
Our starting 5 is Jake-Scottie-Dick-RJ-IQ or if Dick isn't ready Jake-Scottie-RJ-Brown-IQ. That's a top 15 starting lineup in the league, you're just not going to compete with Chicago (Vuc-Smith-Williams-Lacine-Giddey), Charlotte (Williams-Grant-Bridges-Miller-Ball) Brooklyn (Claxton-Cam-Simmons-Cam-Dennis), Washington (JV-Kuzma-Bilal-Poole-Brogdon), Detroit (Duren-Stewart-Tobias-Ivey-Cade) when it comes to being ass.
Yeah, that's fine. But I don't think trading Poeltl for a younger "Poeltl" puts us in a tank situation.
The only way we tank against teams actually trying to tank is if we detonate the BBQ core....but there's no guarantee we come out of a tank in 4-6 years with a core as good as the BBQ core at 23-24-25 yrs old.
The way to getting better now, is to get better. If there is a Jake trade that materializes at some point this year where we get a young rim runner from a playoff team looking for a veteran, solid. If not, no worries. Jake is still 28.