2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[mvossman]

Draft day trade:

Bullock/Kleber/Powell/#26/‘24 and ‘25 pick swap for Brooks/Adams

We get our rebounding/rim protection/toughness/non-guard ball handling all in 1 trade. If the pick swaps get us to a worse pick, it shouldn’t be that bad of a drop, but we retain the flexibility of having a pick during those years.

We then have the TPE, TP-MLE and a THJ trade to fill out the bench with guys like those who have been proposed here (Hartenstein/Muscala and bench wing types like Ross)

Is Dillon Brooks the 2 way player to put us over the top?  He has a concerning injury history.  I'm not sure he is the player I want to bet my future on.  This trade also leaves us even thinner in the frontcourt and leaves us with no reasonable way to play 5 out, which was our most effective offense in the playoffs.  Memphis is one of the last teams I would want to trade with, and I don't know why a win now team would make a trade like this unless they are swindling us from an asset perspective.  I think I would rather be patient than do something like this.