That Bucks pick is after Giannis’ age 30 season
There is no shot it’s a lottery pick unless he gets consumption
That said, I don’t think the market for Grant was ever what the Pistons and us hoped.
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Out of those four picks you have to expect to get at least one valuable player
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Not ones that play drop coverage.
Richuan Holmes could give you like 85% of Ayton at like 25% the price
I’m not arguing that.
Plus cap space
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Given the choice I would sign Bridges 10 out of 10 tines
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Now the Pistons can pay Miles Bridges or Jalen Brunson 15 mil a year more than their value. Weaver nailed it, lol
Interesting, the advanced numbers don’t think Bridges is in the same stratosphere as Ayton
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I just think the gap between Bridges and a replacement level SF is way bigger than Ayton and a replacement level center
No team has enough wings, every team as a respectable center.
Ayton is probably “better” in a vacuum, but easier to find a reasonable (but somewhat worse) facsimile of - Center outside of like the top 4 is one of the most fungible positions in the league.
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Either way, I think it’s a bad idea. This team has 1 sure-fire guy. They need more, I don’t know why they are charging full steam at the play-in.
Reasonably, you can’t really tank forever. Pistons got screwed by the draft being weak + lottery, but you can’t really expect them to just tank for 2 more years.
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I think there is space between tanking and signing DeAndre Ayton.
Cunningham
Mathurin
Bey
Bagley
Ayton
Where does that team rank in the East?
11th?
It seems, outside of Cunningham’s assumed improvement, no better than this year?
Well they would still have Olynyk-Livers along with 20 plus more miliion to spend.
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The most interesting thing about this is if they are going after Ayton, they clearly don’t think they need to do a sign and trade to do it.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think this is about Ayton. They already had the space to sign Ayton and if anything Grant would have helped with a sign and trade if needed.
I think this is either:
- have space to sign Ayton AND Bridges/Brunson
Or (more excitingly):
Package 5 + the second round picks + MIL’s 2025 first to move into the top 3. Could make sense with Banchero’s odds randomly skyrocketing and HOU doesn’t want anyone at the 3 other than Banchero/Chet who will both be gone
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Collin Sexton instead of Brunson
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Woj says they are at $46 million. That’s not enough for Ayton and another biggie
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That seems feasible, in terms of space.
Generally speaking I like the idea of signing Sexton, for anyone. He’s going to be heavily discounted.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if they used the cap space for some “sin eating.” Eating a bad contract to get some more picks.
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He’s not going to be asked to handle the ball and be an initiator. He’s not an elite athlete on top of it. He’s skilled but I see him as an oversized stretch big.
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