01-28-2026, 07:46 AM
I would never get rid of Naji he is just too great of a guy to have for 2 way play and as he improves his 3 he will become a complete player.
You can play him at a lot of positions. so super flexible. With him Cooper and Max plus whoever we pick in the draft we will be set with a starting rotation around our hopefully healed up center rotation but if we are risk averse maybe we can also look to trade Gafford and or Lively.
If not we can surely trade off someone and get a couple 2nds to add some young talent to develop that works around coopers timeline who is a C type.
The Ivisic brothers look like they are going to be real good as stretch 5's and if you get 2 2nds get them both and use one as a backup PF or as a tag team at C.
The rest of the team is good for filling in as backups, B Will and Ryan are obvious keepers unless you snag a second PG in this draft. Klay is Klay. PJ is still here if healthy and Martin has started to show he can score a little to go along with some somewhat stout D.
Cisse may develop into a better FT shooter over the summer and be a nice 3rd or 4th string 5.
Hardy still has a lot of scoring to offer a team in the bottom half of the standings so we could help him find a home for a 2nd round pick.
Dlo is on a cheap contract for what he can do so even he could get us a 2nd rounder.
Exum and Powell likely retire from the game or we Keith Van horn them as part of a trade to take on someone that is not possibly overpaid and not wanted. If the owner wants to go there which he may not want to do.
And guess what? This is a good team and we are not even talking about having Kyrie and AD still here. so you add that in as a bonus and what you have for these next few years when we have zero first round draft picks to tank for, is a time of playing to win and nothing else is an option.
If the old guys can hang and not play too many minutes we can develop their replacements and be ready in case of an injury derailing them and just look at it as a bonus amount of PT to give to whoever we draft to groom as their replacement.
Our first pick I assume we are going to pick a PG we can use as a SG/SF (Wagler) to play next to Kyrie. Max may end up winning the SG starting job anyway and Naji is someone you can use anywhere that is left maybe we can use him or PJ in small ball as a PF with Cooper as the 5 as Cooper beefs up more. Whoever we keep can be a 6th man of the year for sure especially if they get their 3 working well. Maybe Klay is good for a mid to slightly lower first round pick from OKC. Would you trade them Klay for 26 or 18? They also have 11 and 40. They do not have any room on their roster to waste on rookies so they are going to do something to add vets.
The trade offers we get for our starter quality players like NAJI and PJ, they need to be seriously sweetened with high first round lottery picks in the high mid first rounder to solid high lottery level first round pics. If they offer later pics we have to just refuse the offer and not trade them.
You can play him at a lot of positions. so super flexible. With him Cooper and Max plus whoever we pick in the draft we will be set with a starting rotation around our hopefully healed up center rotation but if we are risk averse maybe we can also look to trade Gafford and or Lively.
If not we can surely trade off someone and get a couple 2nds to add some young talent to develop that works around coopers timeline who is a C type.
The Ivisic brothers look like they are going to be real good as stretch 5's and if you get 2 2nds get them both and use one as a backup PF or as a tag team at C.
The rest of the team is good for filling in as backups, B Will and Ryan are obvious keepers unless you snag a second PG in this draft. Klay is Klay. PJ is still here if healthy and Martin has started to show he can score a little to go along with some somewhat stout D.
Cisse may develop into a better FT shooter over the summer and be a nice 3rd or 4th string 5.
Hardy still has a lot of scoring to offer a team in the bottom half of the standings so we could help him find a home for a 2nd round pick.
Dlo is on a cheap contract for what he can do so even he could get us a 2nd rounder.
Exum and Powell likely retire from the game or we Keith Van horn them as part of a trade to take on someone that is not possibly overpaid and not wanted. If the owner wants to go there which he may not want to do.
And guess what? This is a good team and we are not even talking about having Kyrie and AD still here. so you add that in as a bonus and what you have for these next few years when we have zero first round draft picks to tank for, is a time of playing to win and nothing else is an option.
If the old guys can hang and not play too many minutes we can develop their replacements and be ready in case of an injury derailing them and just look at it as a bonus amount of PT to give to whoever we draft to groom as their replacement.
Our first pick I assume we are going to pick a PG we can use as a SG/SF (Wagler) to play next to Kyrie. Max may end up winning the SG starting job anyway and Naji is someone you can use anywhere that is left maybe we can use him or PJ in small ball as a PF with Cooper as the 5 as Cooper beefs up more. Whoever we keep can be a 6th man of the year for sure especially if they get their 3 working well. Maybe Klay is good for a mid to slightly lower first round pick from OKC. Would you trade them Klay for 26 or 18? They also have 11 and 40. They do not have any room on their roster to waste on rookies so they are going to do something to add vets.
The trade offers we get for our starter quality players like NAJI and PJ, they need to be seriously sweetened with high first round lottery picks in the high mid first rounder to solid high lottery level first round pics. If they offer later pics we have to just refuse the offer and not trade them.