Ivica Zubac Discussion: Zu's Gonna Clip

honestly, could have waived beas and picked up a better player than muscala behind home depot. pretty bad move.

 

Damn Zu. I didn’t know it was like that.

 

@Doc Brown I don't read it that way. The Clippers made it clear that Zu would be their starting center when he arrived. A new arrival who's still on a rookie contract and taking over the starting spot can ruffle feathers on some teams. Apparently his new teammates are cool.

 

this is a trade we'll regret...unless of course we never had any plans to re sign him....not bringing back lopez side effect

 

We floated his name in trades with the Pels...they wasn't interested. He would be difficult to S&T...so we find him a new spot post-Boban.

Don't get me wrong, I would have loved to pair dude with AD, but maybe DJ or Boogie come on the cheap...

 

Should of just traded him for a second rounder if we didn't want him.

 

When you’ve drafted as well as we have the last couple of years, you can’t end up keeping everyone. Some of the guys will prosper elsewhere, and some we’ll regret letting go if the reason behind it doesn’t work out.

We’re trying to win championships or position ourselves with assets or flexibility’s to obtain championship pieces. If it’s successful, those moves will be looked at mostly favorably. If not, we’ll question them.

Recent lost pieces

Clarkson
Nance
Randle
DLO
Zubac
Svi


Some good pieces there

Part of me would loved to have trotted out

Ball
DLO
BI
Randle
Zubac

With Kuz/Hart as 6-7 men

But that would take serious patience, and we didn’t take that route. We brought in solid vets to show our young guys the way and positioned ourselves to contend quickly. We’re probably ahead of the game because of it.

 

yeah, i don't think it's reasonable to be THAT patient (we'd have lost a LOT of games with that roster). i just find it annoying that none of the good drafting has been lost in a way that clearly led to a foundational piece. i know everyone claims DLO made lebron happen (i disagree), but right now, your list is a bunch of guys replaced by air. i don't think people would be mad if all of those guys were packaged at once for an allstar-level player. but to think that most of the "fruits" from those decisions are essentially nada, it's frustrating.

i mean, our good pick of zubac and two years of development resulted in a guy we could have nabbed in FA for very little.

 

Yeah, hard to like that move for sure.
And the DLO
And the Randle moves

***sigh***

 

it's important to clarify that it's not like these are franchise-dooming in and of themselves. it's that we have failed to aggregate any of this value to bring back greater value. failures of this sort (losing odom and gasol for nothing) are what led directly to the darkest period in franchise history, imo.

i think in terms of: what if dlo or nance or clarkson or all three could have been moved for a tobias harris-level player, and that player might have been the one that (in conjunction with other assets) brings the big fish.

davis was an attempt in this vein, but we haven't made enough of those in recent years. and eventually, the young talent ages out and has to be paid or moved.

 

It was the same thing 4 years ago when we could have taken a chance on IT but were too busy chasing big names we had no chance to sign .

IT resulted in Kyrie ...

Different FO , about same the results , absolutely no ability to build a real team .

Create cap space , try to sign the big fishes , if failure , try again next season ...

 

Moe >>> Muscala.

 

Could have used Zu last night, but we salary dump our good players so we can have scrubs take their place.

 

If "they couldn't afford Zubac this summer" means Anthony Davis is coming, then I can live it. Otherwise, it doesn't make much sense.