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Ayton was certainly a top 10 rotation person last year, I don't get that. Assuming still here at least to the deadline. And Jake WILL be. Book it!!

@Kobeluka99 probably


Nah .... eff it I'll own the Jake take and feel good about it. Especially after (seeing) @karacha 's Big Ones today

 

Pretty much.

https://www.sports-reference.com/st...1-6FWIvdA7DI8oysr0Aa.UatCCQVUM27dZli68J1Xn.wY

 

He was but he will have a very different role and there's a lot of questions about how motivated he will be. We went far and beyond to find ways to motivate him as a starter already with the shirts and special drinks lol

Let's remember he lost his place to Hayes in closing lineups multiple times. And I want to say in the starting lineup too?

Anyway, hope he gives us good bench minutes, we really need it

 

Just got some time to catch up and comment. I have a lot of thoughts, not many of them good.

The last thing I said was, I bet Rob max’s Kessler and sends out both picks with nothing going out. And abeer said it wouldn’t make sense for there to not be salary going back. (Paraphrasing)

Well our GM sent the picks and no players out. On top of that were the swaps necessary at all? I do like the salary though - 32.5 is a good pay for a defensive center of his calibre.

Then he goes out and gives overpays to Mamu and Grimes and instead of 3 year deals with TO’s in year 3, we give them 4 year deals with player options? It’s almost like we should investigate if Rob secretly owns a player agency still.

The worst thing about all of this is we don’t own our picks to 2032 and have this team locked in for 4 years with no way to improve apart from exemptions.

 

To me this is how this team slots right now talent wise:

1 - Luka
2 - Reaves
3 -
4 - Kessler
5 -
6 - Grimes
7 - Sexton
8 - Mamu
9 -
10 - Ayton
11 - Jake & Vando
12 - Carr
13 - Adou
14 - Knecht
15 - Bronny

We’re not a contender. We have two bench pieces starting and then outside of Sexton and Ayton, a weak bench.

We don’t really have defenders, Grimes isn’t a POA guy or shooters (Mamu is your best one right now).

We would need to pick up Kuminga and Thybulle for minimums to balance the team out.

 

exactly what I think

also in addition to not getting better defensively apart from the Center position we also lost 3-point shooting, and we were already a bad shooting team.

it's crazy work, people on the forum wanting to sell us that it was a good idea giving big 4-year contracts to guys who were reserves in worse teams than us, and rely on them to be starters here

and if you point out that doesn't make any logical sense, you get called a negative nancy

 

Brown traded to Philly. For PG and 2 picks

Brad lost his mind. What a stupid deal. This is, awesome

 

Yeah it's true. I just said this a few pages ago. Didn't see it on X, just did the math. It's the remaining contract number divided by double the contract years plus one.

 

Again, the EAST…likes each other a little too much.

also…why do I get the feeling they won’t keep PG?

also, Embiid has another chance….unless Kawhi wants to ruin it again.

 

Could also package Knecht and LaRavia for up to a 17.7 million dollar player.

 

I think we only have 5.5M after AR contract


Some defensive grades from our guys:

https://x.com/i/status/2072444317428285771

 

that's f***ing highway robbery by Phi. His deal is massive but my god they have a perimeter of maxey, VJ, and Brown. Jesus that team is going to be a b**** to play against

 

Oh that's right, we have to stay under the 1st apron. I rather use the apron room for flexibility. So Maybe we could take on an extra 2 or 3 mil, but that's it.

 

It is not better to be safe than sorry, we went for it and I like that. Adou is claiming a starting spot and is going to be a monster. We have what we need JJ, get to work!!

 

That’s literally a Luka level trade. That’s the best Boston could do lol??? Surely teams like Detroit or Cleveland had better offers

 

DTLF laying out the truth about racist comments, I am starting to like this guy.

 

Weak trade for the C Bags. They burned the bridge and it blew up in their face.