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We didn't have a special team. We got bounced out the first round. LOL.

 

@Kobeluka99

Dude it’s Reaves …. are you trying to be dense or piss me off? It’s working along with your every thought needing a separate post rather than combining them and not repeating.

 

I recall back in the CL days there was a stream of consciousness poster that was singlehandedly responsible for a time limit between posts. Not sure why I'm thinking of that now. Completely out of the blue thought that just came to me. Completely unrelated to anything.

 

Are you kidding me????? You watch Reeves play Lakers basketball???? He’s got a great contract and plays great basketball. I can’t give my opinion of his value to this team. What he means to this team? Was he bad against Memphis when he was screaming he’s Him. Or Golden State? He had one bad playoff series. Not like the guy isn’t one of our top players. Played good with Russell played good with Doncic he’s a very nice player.

 

I started my posts off saying Trade Reeves for Durant or Gianiss. You can’t just go trading your core players for players that fit a so called need. It has been proven that doesn’t always work in the NBA.

 

The more i think about it, Brooklyn is an excellent trade partner for us again.

• They have picks #8,19,26,27, and 36.
• They have at least one current player that would fit (Claxton).
• They turned down a protected 1st from Memphis and a player under contract in favor of our expiring and three future 2nds.

I'm thinking we may be able to nab at least one of those 1st from them, if anything. I bee going back and fourth with my brother on sending #55 and the 2031 1st to Brooklyn for #19 and #27 (if there are players whom we really like in that range). I like Walter Clayton Jr. Pure shooter, athletic, and could defend. Knock on him is he is a tweener, which is irrelevant when you have a 6-8 point-guard. IDK, what do you guys think?

 

Reeves sucks!!!! I have never liked that little creep!

 

I was waiting for that one.

 

I would definitely trade Reeves for Allen, Claxton, even Williams!!

 

I guess there is a 3rd and 4th option to my 2nd post above .... you really just are dense? Or you're so wrapped up in your own posts others' don't really register with you? Let me help you out below. But if it really is the 2nd option in that post PM me and let's talk.


ONE of these is NOT alike:



George Reeves ^^^



Christopher Reeve ^^^



Austin "Reaves" ^^^

 

AD said that Jrue was his best friend in the League. Washington and Gafford could be routed elsewhere?

I'd like to lift that Dunn guy, he's on a cheap contract, and he's so-so on offense, but he gets after folks on D.

 

Not advocating for it but I'm also open to it. They've got Day-Ron Sharpe too. At the #19 and #27 I think we could get any combination of Sorber (2nd or 3rd best big prospect this draft), Fleming (3-D wing), Coward (3-D wing, having a bit of a Jalen Williams rise since the combine), Powell (3-D wing, another freak athlete). I'm unsure we'd want to commit two roster spots to rookies but you never know.

BKN also has the #36 pick which could probably get you Yanic Konan Niederhauser as I think he just said he's staying in the draft.

 

Lol, first thing I thought of was Superman also

Good call

How can we take this guy serious when he can't even spell our players names correct?

 

agree here. and i'm not sure the eddie jones move really had to happen, anyway. that's a story we tell ourselves to feel better about it.

but anyway, yeah, it's not like you don't need a secondary creator just because you have luka. if we move reaves for someone who isn't, we'll be desperately searching for a reaves type when lebron retires. and they just aren't available very often. not at his level.

no to durant for me, too. only giannis and jaren jackson from your list. and i don't love JJJ all that much, but he's a quality two-way big that can play multiple styles. those are about as rare as creators at reaves's level, so i'd allow it.

yeah, my sights for the offseason are much lower than others'. if we can move expirings and a minor asset for rob williams/thybulle, that's become my plan A.

if we can't do that, i'm trying to get capela and melton on low-dollar deals--the former by promising the starting role, the latter by pointing to malik monk and saying he's got a legit chance at big minutes here. same thing with paul reed. take a vet min here and you might get an mle next year.

 

yeah, i thought minny's move last year was an interesting one (trading future 1sts for a current one), but i get the theory.

i just think you have to be sure about who you're getting. like they were obviously sold on dillingham. if our scouts identified someone they felt REALLY good about, i'd be open to something like this.

yeah, someone with an mle can use it as a TE to accept gafford or washington, which would be a good use of it, imo. not sure which teams have it and need a center, but he probably starts for at least 10 teams in the league, right? and almost any team can use washington, imo. i really like him and wanted us to try and get him when the mavs did.

holiday's not worth washington AND gafford, though, so dallas would need something else coming. like 3 1sts. (1 each for gaff, pj and one to eat the back end of holiday's deal).

i don't get how russ's expiring supposedly took a zillion firsts to get off, but holiday's deal can supposedly just be moved around easily. he has a PO for 37 per in his age 37 season--three years from now.

holiday's still quite good, but his production doesn't match his contract, and he's due for a big dropoff (some of which has already started happening).

there are dunns out there to be found. we need to be the team that finds the next one! is dennis smith healed from whatever injury kept him out last year? similar to dunn, he was an athletic lotto pick whose offense never came around, and he was re-fashioning himself as an elite POA defender to try and get back in the league.

 

Yeah, it needs to be someone they really like. I think I would draft Yanic with #27 or even #19. He's good. I think he will move up. But if we were to get let's say, Yanic and Clayton. That's two 22 year old. Not too far off from Lukas timeline. They are functional for what we need. Yanic is the most athletic big in the draft, and Clayton is 3 and D point of attack defender.

 

This was brought up on one of the pods in the past week. Might've been on the Irwin/Lane one... they run together sometimes....
One bonus we can offer on whatever redemption/rehab/prove it deals we sign vets to this year for a discount that we couldn't in previous years is next summer we'll have money. We will be in a position to pay and keep that player who pops instead of only showcasing them for their next team.

 

Zion's value potentially just took a nose dive. It's early and the source isn't the most reliable, but given some of his dirty laundry that's been blasted before, if I'm a team who was a potential suitor... i'm probably keeping my distance for awhile.

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Man, if we could pry Herb or Trey...

 

New Orleans is 24th in ticket sales. They could use and Auatin Reeves, who is from nearby Arkansas and combined with his style of play would likely make him a fan favorite in New Orleans. They have several functional "boring" players that they could send our way.