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Real draft hoopheads (not just those who started following this year after the Pacers trade) know James Barlow. Disasterous move to go independent this year that basically tanked his visibility lol, but dude's NBA knowledge is great. Wouldn't be counting out Mikel Brown as our eventual guy on draft night.

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let’s all put our energy together and manifest an Ace Bailey style situation where Peterson falls to five!
I utilized my power of foresight to predict that the draft will go as such:

AJ

Boozer

Acuff

Wilson

Peterson

welcome to LA DP and big shout out to Mike muscala and big zu 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

Like are we trying to argue this years 6th seeded wolves team without Anthony Edwards is better than that 60 win spurs team without Kawhi???

Whats wild to me that is harden at 37 is still getting more heat than Jokic who many in the media has as their mvp this year. And Jokic will be right back in mvp convos next year like nothing happened

Am I tripping or wrong for having this opinion?

Is that the likelihood that it comes back to haunt the Clippers is low. Even if Acuff becomes his best self, it's the Kings! They aren't going to build a good team around him. Plus there's also the chance that he doesn't become his best self because he's thrust into a lead role right away and never has an incentive to improve on defense.

Then the Clippers can get Brown who I think has a higher ceiling than Acuff, but if his back is bad or he just doesn't work out, at least you got some assets.

(Sorry Kings fans, I do hope Vivek sells some day or learns to let basketball people do basketball things, but sometime after you give the Clippers some assets for Acuff. And I don't root for any young player to not reach their potential...except for Luka and that's only because he's now on the Lakers and Lakers hate trumps morals.)

This could very well be dumb for probably a ton of reasons I'm not thinking of, but it also could be a wild strategy that pays off big time:

So, first off, how much does everyone think one draft pick's up is worth (i assume it depends on sections of the draft, like 5 to 4 probably costs more than 6 to 5 for example)?

Let's be conservative for a sec tho and for simplicity's sake, say its one to two future 2nd round pick(s).

So what if after the top 4 are selected (if acuff goes top 4, i guess you probably don't do this), we draft who the Nets (tell us they want, the Clippers sell this trade idea as it costs the Nets a 2nd(s) to guarantee they get their guy, or risk we take him), get the Nets 6th pick plus a 2nd(s), then do the same with the Kings etc until we get to a team that wants to draft the guy we want (yes we double cross that one team by basically taking that guy instead of doing the deal).

I mean, maybe this stops before it starts right at the nets if the Clippers are very adamant about a particular guy, but more so works if they are open to a couple guys, like what if we came up on like 4+ future 2nds, got one of wagler/MBJ (if they are fine with that) at 7, then packaged all those 2nds plus whatever else for as low a pick as possible (similar strategy in seeing who what teams want) to get Mara (i assume before OKC, they may not accept anything)?

I feel like this would be the ultimate come up in this year's draft vs the #1/#2 pick you prob can't get anyway.

I think Mara could potentially end up being one of, if not the most important guys, if you want a chance at contending with the Spurs once their rookie contracts are up.

Watching harden on the cavs, he looks slower, careless, old

But was he this bad on the clippers? I thought he looked much better while Leonard was out, I figured being on the Cavs he’d play better.

I don’t think anything more needs to be said. We got rid of him for a reason.

Wanted to hear your thoughts

Dream semi realistic scenario that I wanted to hear opinions from all the handsome folks in the clippers subreddit that love posts like these

- trade back to kings for their pick + Keegan Murray then draft whoever is available (ideally Wagler imo)

- trade Kawhi and Beal to Miami for Ware and filler + their pick (draft Morez)

- extend Mathurin as cheap as possible

- pick up a free agent young guy to take a flyer on like Dalen Terry

- steal with the remaining money a buy low RFA such as Coby white, Ayo, or Eason (not necessary but why not try during rebuild)

- trade DJJ for a FRP while he’s still worth one

We’d go from an absolute unction with the oldest team in the league to one of the youngest in one year along with a couple of good future picks:

Team would look something like this:

Garland Mathurin Murray Morez Ware

Bench: White Wagler Dunn Sanders Yanic

Deep bench: Miller, Terry, Christie, Jackson, 2nd Rounder

Average age here would be like 24 lol. Please tell me honest thoughts. I know some of these are hopeful like us trading back and getting Murray but not impossible. Lmk!

OKC only played Hart against Wemby for the first 2 minutes of the game. After that they realized hart was unplayable against Wemby and they didn’t put him in at the same time as Wemby for the rest of the game. If you can’t shoot 3s as a big then Wemby will shut you down. So it looks like we traded Zubac at the perfect time and got the most possible out of him. I bet with the Pacers seeing how Wemby destroys non shooting bigs they might regret traded for Zu. This isn’t being negative against Zu I love him but it’s just what Wemby does to any non-shooting big.

We’ve seen that the players who have the best chance at guarding Wemby are strong and mobile players. Wemby goes right through tall and weak players and immobile players. To gaurd Wemby you need to be strong and quick on your feet. This makes me even more bullish on Yanic, he has the mobility and strength to guard Wemby and he’s a 7 footer, he’s as good a Wemby stopper as any. On top of that Yanic made some 3s this past season so if he continues to work on that he’s literally the perfect type of center to go against Wemby.

Played a pick up game earlier tonight with a 6’6 dude who got stuffed by the rim in warm up dunk attempts multiple times (he’s prob 21 yo and in good shape/ started div 2 ball) and now I’m wondering if there is is a vid (searched but couldn’t find) of Wagler dunking emphatically in a game outside of official Illinois games? If not, Acuff is the best option. I easily found a vid of an Acuff drive and dunk in a college game. My opinion, the ability to drive, lift off, and slam it home is a prerequisite for nba stardom. Anything below that is not a top 5 lottery pick. Go Acuff, the grown man pick.