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  1. Slick2021

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    I see Orlando waived Jonathan Isaac? Any interest in him?
     
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    I totally agree. I'm just thinking how do you scrape something out of nothing here? Can you overpay for norman powell and get dean wade adn run it back?
    Throw in Thybulle and you get definitely improve on defense across mulitple positions and powell is jut flat out better then Rui.

    It's not a slam dunk but at least you're doing the old Pacers trick of just getting better year after year.
     
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    A great vet minimum prospect IMO.
     
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    I also think he's going to get max or near the max for multiple reasons. Yes he sucked in the playoffs but:

    - market is thin for centers
    - coming off an All Star and All-NBA season
    - averaged 20/11
    - only 22 years old so he has plenty of time to improve

    he's still one of the best center prospects out there, if not us, some other team will probably max him.
     
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    yeah, the nets could let sharpe walk and offer him a max. or even just put sharpe off a couple days while detroit considers matching (we could try to steal sharpe then).

    but i think it's us. i think we're trying to get them to do a S&T by offering duren a max, and i think they're thinking about which option is better (overpaying duren or taking the L). i agree with slick (and the writers, etc.) that duren isn't worth his supermax, but that's what it takes to operate in free agency these days.
     

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