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Good post because this year is nothing like 2011. These bigs this year come with a pedigree including Bagley, considered the #1 player in his high school class...not #1 big man...#1 player. And Bagley was the best player on a team that included Carter who many predict will be our pick at #6. Unique year with a group of elite big men unlike any other year I can remember. I consider Doncic and Porter in that big category because they are big at the position they will play. These bigs have been in top 5 or 6 of this draft all year long. No surprises this year. These bigs are flat out good players.

I'd trade our unprotected 2019 and our 2 seconds for a top 5 in this year's draft.

It's just tough. He really needed more college tape. It's a mystery box situation. We have the least amount of tape on Porter so we give him the biggest benefit of the doubt because he hasn't shown us anything bad. But it's very likely that, had he played, be we would be talking about his issues the same way we soured on skal, cliff Alexander, Shabazz Mohammed. And I'd be pro-risk taking if there weren't other, better options this year for risk/reward plays. There's like 6 options at 6 for potential primary creator options and I'm not sure why Porter is the top option in that group.

Why not get a good player at #6 AND grab 1 of the top 5 as well? Bird in the hand philosophy, personally I think the top of this draft is the best we will see for quite some time.

What a horrible core. It may not be our money. It doesn’t matter. Businesses analyze their results all the time. Ultimately a business with poor results will make changes: sell, go out of business (won’t happen to an NBA franchise), move, or something. The idea that they can afford it so they’ll be willing to just keep shoveling in the money is probably not correct.

The real interesting thing about restricted free agency is the only way to avoid giving Gordon a max contract is to say you plan on matching max contract offers. The second you set a hypothetical walk away amount you're screwing yourself because someone will offer him slightly more. So you say you'll match everything, you give him a low-ball offer initially and tell him to go out and get another offer sheet if he wants more and we'll match. Nobody will offer him what he wants because of our threat to match. Teams don't want to waste time and don't want their likely targets to feel like a plan B. He'll come back with nothing substantial. We'll increase our offer a bit as a gesture of good faith and to make him feel like he's taken care of and to make the risk of taking the qualifying offer seem unpalatable. That's how I think we end up at 24 per year flat salary. 5/120.