If the FO trades up for a better shot at a high pick. By the grace and virtue of the ping pong balls. We would have a better shot at landing Scoot than we would Wembanyana.

So would you give up some assets for a chance just to land Henderson? If so how much?

I would give up 3 unprotected first rounders, and one rotation player. If the FO decided a team's pick gave us a competitive shot to draft him.

Shades of Ja Morant.

wargames wrote:

BigDaddyG wrote:I would give up five picks, 2 unproted, one swap and the Dallas/Wizards picks. Kid is younger than Ivey, but makes Jaden look like a member of the Maker family.

I would be willing to give up more

Yeah, Randle and Fournier too. I'd say Grimes, but I'm not sure he's even on the team.

Nalod wrote:Who is going to trade down? We assume we could just keep throwing picks until a team breaks down and says “OK”?
YOu do that for a bonafide star. If “Scoot” is not the real deal and you blow that haul on a bust its a massive phuck up.
Its why you rarely see teams trading up massive to the 1st or second spot. It happens, Boston traded down and grabbed Tatum instead of fultz but that was not like a Webanyama/Henderson/ThomsponTwins top heavy draft. How does tatum not go first? LONZO ball goes second! Bad look for Philly and Lakers passing on Tatum. Ainge gets a massive gold star in the hindsight HOF!!!

Nalod wrote:

BigDaddyG wrote:

Nalod wrote:Who is going to trade down? We assume we could just keep throwing picks until a team breaks down and says “OK”?
YOu do that for a bonafide star. If “Scoot” is not the real deal and you blow that haul on a bust its a massive phuck up.
Its why you rarely see teams trading up massive to the 1st or second spot. It happens, Boston traded down and grabbed Tatum instead of fultz but that was not like a Webanyama/Henderson/ThomsponTwins top heavy draft. How does tatum not go first? LONZO ball goes second! Bad look for Philly and Lakers passing on Tatum. Ainge gets a massive gold star in the hindsight HOF!!!

Teams have rarely traded down the past few decades. The cost just to move to number is usually really high. I'm not saying trading up for Scoot will happen. But if it did... 5 sraft picks easy.

Its one thing to move up one, two or three places. But to move from say 8 or 10th to the 2 is another. Your talking about a a team that just experienced an awful season and now dilutes that “Tank” that could have a francchise player into a wide array of picks. its also two fold risky. Say its indiana, they give up a potential star player for 5 picks none likley to be a top 5?
To a lesser degree Scoot might not be an instant star or one at all due to injury or off court situation. If so, Knicks gave away a big talent influx or other trade assets. Scoot is not DM. Donovan was a proven entity.
I can’t think of a situation where a team moved up 8-10 spots for a single top 3 pick. Does not mean it did not happen,, just can’t remember one that sticks out.
We assume that any pick can be tempted into being traded for but finding a team to actually do it is another.
Thus, its an exercise of a dream. Sure, lets do it. 5 picks. How many are ours? How many unprotected?

RJ is going thru a bad spell and its easy to “dump him” this week. 22 year old 20 pt scoreres don’t grow on trees to be part of a 5 pick trade for a rookie. DM I would understand.

RJ had 2-3 good months of shooting in 2020 season, the rest of his career has been a bad spell.

fishmike wrote:

martin wrote:

Nalod wrote:

BigDaddyG wrote:

Nalod wrote:Who is going to trade down? We assume we could just keep throwing picks until a team breaks down and says “OK”?
YOu do that for a bonafide star. If “Scoot” is not the real deal and you blow that haul on a bust its a massive phuck up.
Its why you rarely see teams trading up massive to the 1st or second spot. It happens, Boston traded down and grabbed Tatum instead of fultz but that was not like a Webanyama/Henderson/ThomsponTwins top heavy draft. How does tatum not go first? LONZO ball goes second! Bad look for Philly and Lakers passing on Tatum. Ainge gets a massive gold star in the hindsight HOF!!!

Teams have rarely traded down the past few decades. The cost just to move to number is usually really high. I'm not saying trading up for Scoot will happen. But if it did... 5 sraft picks easy.

Its one thing to move up one, two or three places. But to move from say 8 or 10th to the 2 is another. Your talking about a a team that just experienced an awful season and now dilutes that “Tank” that could have a francchise player into a wide array of picks. its also two fold risky. Say its indiana, they give up a potential star player for 5 picks none likley to be a top 5?
To a lesser degree Scoot might not be an instant star or one at all due to injury or off court situation. If so, Knicks gave away a big talent influx or other trade assets. Scoot is not DM. Donovan was a proven entity.
I can’t think of a situation where a team moved up 8-10 spots for a single top 3 pick. Does not mean it did not happen,, just can’t remember one that sticks out.
We assume that any pick can be tempted into being traded for but finding a team to actually do it is another.
Thus, its an exercise of a dream. Sure, lets do it. 5 picks. How many are ours? How many unprotected?

RJ is going thru a bad spell and its easy to “dump him” this week. 22 year old 20 pt scoreres don’t grow on trees to be part of a 5 pick trade for a rookie. DM I would understand.

RJ had 2-3 good months of shooting in 2020 season, the rest of his career has been a bad spell.

this is more and more true everyday