Justin Jaudon

Yeah, I think this is a playoff team with Dipo last year (at least, if he made the same strides). Think of this, also: If we had Dipo the year before, would we have been drafting in the Donovan Mitchell range? Imagine Dipo/Mitchell/Gordan as our core. Okay, that's enough what if. It hurts my soul. Hurah for Luka, all in guys!!!!

Bite your tongue, heathen!!!! You'll bring the basketball gods down on us!

What the actual Hell is happening. You're the one who told me those colors weren't right in the first place. This board has gone completely out of control!! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!!!

then come on, boys and girls! There isn't much time! Down-vote away!!!

smh... you, sir, are no fun at all.

I'm uncomfortable with that tie! It's too close to Sacramento's blue! Damn you colors!!!

Party pooper!

One thing I'm thinking, though: if Atlanta really loves Trae, and Dallas outbids us for 3, that means one of JJJ/Bamba falls to us at 6. I'm on record not being as high on those two as others here, but that's something to remember tonight.

Book it! We're trading for Doncic! Shut up, let me have this for a minute!

If this happens I'd be happy, because it would mean one of two things. 1) management saw something that makes them think Trae can improve defensively, or they think he's so good offensively that he's worth it; either way it's encouraging, because this management staff doesn't seem to overvalue offense. 2) We're trading with Atlanta for Doncic (I would run through the streets with joy [and promptly pass out, because my fat ass is out of shape]).

I don't know how you could be anything but glowing about Trae's offense, unless you're really that concerned about his TOs (you shouldn't be; he was a freshman asked to maintain a 35+ Usage Rate). He's probably never going to be super efficient, but offensively he's got everything you want from a PG. the question is whether he can be good enough defensively so that his offense can make him valuable as a starter. There's reason to believe it can't be, but that's possibly unfair. We'll see.

I don't know his game that well. What are the odds he's a more efficient shooting Elfrid Payton? I've heard he's kind of passive, defensively, is the issue. I don't want a passive PG ever again. Maybe I'm still traumatized from years of watching Elf not fight through screens despite being one of the bigger PGs in the league; but I can't go through that again.

Yeah, bad defensive Jameer is always overstated. He was below average defensively, but not awful. And from '05 to '12, his prime, he was very good offensively. Solid efficiency, very efficient passer (he was always an underrated passer, because Stan ran a system that is more like today's systems, where no one player dominated the ball). No real holes in his game. We could have won a title with him, if some things had gone differently. I still think we might have if we hadn't blown it up because some guys got the flu.

I hope this is true. Though also I hope we're not trading with either unless it's for Doncic. I just don't think Bamba or Jackson are quite good enough to move up for. Though, I suppose if all it takes to move up to 4 for one of the two is 6, Biyombo (or even Fournier, really) and taking Parsons back, that's not so bad. I just happen to be one of the few who likes Carter as much as either Bamba or Jackson (though I understand the argument putting them on a slightly higher tier).

Sure. Of course. If all it takes to get down to 3 is 6 and the OKC pick I might do it for Jackson. OKC pick isn't worth much. But 6 and our pick next year, even protected, I wouldn't do for anyone but Doncic or Ayton. I like JJJ; but lack of production means something, even if it doesn't mean everything.

I don't think we will trade for 3 to get JJJ. Nor do I think we should. This is a two stars draft, at this point (obviously we don't know how it will turn out in the end). I think the distance from JJJ to Carter as prospects, respectively, is not enough to trade up. JJJ could end up a much better player than Carter, true. But Carter is a safer bet to be a two-way player who does a bit of everything, so there's not as much of a leap from Carter to JJJ. Carter to Doncic is a different story. Doncic has Carter's safeness and JJJ's upside. He's just a better prospect than JJJ.

I doubt it. Hated the last one, though I get why my kids liked it. It was a big popcorn movie with dinosaurs and Chris Pratt being funny. But it was also a remarkably stupid plot. If they wanted a good movie they would have made it about the British assistant who was watching the kids, rather than the neglectful idiot whose fault it all was and the somehow thinner Owen/Pratt character. But a guy leading raptors on a motorcycle through a jungle looks cool, so...

All that said, I really wish that damn movie were coming out next week.

If picks actually start at 7, that's great. Should be able to watch our #6 (please actually be #3!!!) pick before the movie starts. As for telling my wife that: other times, I probably would have. But sometimes, as a father and a man, you just have to do the family thing. It's just been a while since I've made one of those little sacrifices of what I want, and that's what marriage is about, you know. The good thing is I know my wife doesn't take that for granted, and neither do my kids. The wife appreciates stuff like that, sees that I put family before myself. That's important to a relationship. As for the kids, they get to see how a father should act. They know I'd rather watch sports, and when I choose them instead it shows them that they're more important than my preferences. For them, going to Jurassic World on opening night is a big deal, one that only happens once ever. I don't need to hear all the pundits talk, chat with you all here about it, and all that jazz. I'd like to, but really I just want to know who the pick is. Hopefully it comes in before the previews are over; otherwise I have to wait 2 hours longer than everyone else to hear who we drafted.

LOL! I probably wouldn't enjoy the movie anyway, but yeah.

Seriously, sometimes family sucks. I love my wife and kids, but somehow I got roped into Jurassic World at 8 PM tomorrow night... What time will the picks actually start?

I would lose my mind. Doncic is just incredibly skilled, with exactly the right intangibles. Fearless, focused when the game is on the line, comes up big in big games...if teams other than Phoenix pass on him they'll regret it.

Don't be that guy.

I'm not sure what's hard to understand. As a team with limited tradeable assets, this is exactly what we should be doing; taking on bad contracts for assets. It's using what we have, which is the ability to be patient (because we don't really have a choice). If someone wants salary relief or to get out of a bad contract, we should pounce on that. We would need to throw in a future pick because it's not some random first rounder we're asking for, but the 4th pick. Teams just don't give away the 4th pick. It's good for us because Parsons doesn't hurt us at all. So we're trading some combination of Fournier/Vuc and Ross/Mack for the surety of the 4th pick against whatever next year's pick will be.