Talen Horton-Tucker Discussion: Growing Pains

Hopefully our guy does not s*** his pants in big moments

 

After watching some highlights of him, he honestly moves around like a shorter Ron Artest. Fingers crossed he defends just like Ronnie.

 

Artest has been working with Kuz, lets give him another project in THT

 

We have 1.5m in cash left. Not sure why we didn't try to use it. Maybe we didn't want to sacrifice any further future 2nd rounders. So moving forward we don't have our 2nd for 2020 (THT trade) add 2021 (Svi trade).

 

I think it's because we didn't have any picks, so we didn't workout very many guys in that range. We knew little about them, not enough to make an informed decision about them. I think it was a mistake, there's at least a few guys who I know would've helped us (I didn't need to bring them in for a workout to know that). And we're probably hoping a couple of our undrafted pickups pan out, who required us giving up nothing.

 

plus you can always buy 2nd rounders in the next draft where you have none and a presumably higher pick than the one traded to Orlando if things go the way it should as a top team

 

But if we was planning for max space and planning to get the AD deal done knowing that making it official on July 6th was a possibility...then wouldn't we plan for 2nd rounders knowing that that's the route we would need to take along with vet mins and the room exception.

Now had we gone into scouting knowing we would keep our 2nd year players in Moe & Bonga and a potential athletic freak in JJ, then I understand focusing on potentially undrafted talent. But now knowing Moe, Bonga and possibly JJ need to be included, we needed to uh, what's the word, scramble to get 2nd rounders to help round out the roster with those loses.

I mean we've known we didn't have a 2019 pick and that we would want to etch out a max slot and that we were in play for AD for nearly a year now.

But you need to round out the roster for this year. Bron, AD, Kawhi, Kuz and possibly JJ for the upcoming season. We got THT... but still need 8-10 more roster spots to fill.

 

There's 30 teams (while not every team had a 2nd round selection), an agent has to maximize his client's opportunities and value. He's not going to be able to get in front of every team and ones who don't have a pick are easiest to cross off.

 

He has really good hands defensively, reminds me of Kawhi with them big mitts

 

Highly recommend this video on THT.

 

I so desperately want to change his "first" last name to something with an N.. so we can call him TNT.. cmon!

 

..... nah it has to be Pelinka's inexperience. amirite?

 

What's with you people and this "amirite" business? Can't spell it the right way or something?

 

Can't argue any of that, but we did buy our way into the 2nd round last year (Bonga) and the year before we traded down from the 28th to get into the 2nd round again (TB). So we have a history with Rob of getting into the 2nd round.

Add to that this report:


And if everything was going to plan, then we should have had already talked to agents of potential drafts picks stating that many roster spots could possibly be open so there's a good chance you're getting a contract with us.

Plus part of the process is to bring in these dudes cause even if you don't draft them, you create a file on em to trade for or bring in free agency later down line.

 

What's with you asking this question. Like a lot of things it's an evolved saying here.

 

And would you really dive out of a 10th floor office head first if dogs were allowed, Mr hyperbole?