Rock and a Hard Place

[F Gump]

As good as Luka is (and as ball dominant), I tend to agree.  If we had 8 guys who made sense together to where we had enough O and enough D in lineups to give us a fighting chance, I'd be for giving up picks.  My issue is we aren't one move from getting there.  I like giving up a pick in a deal for someone like Myles Turner.  He could push Wood to the bench, but the two of them could also play together in stretches.  I think he would help the defensive issues also.  I'd see the roster looking like:

Turner      Wood
DFS         Maxi
Green      
SD           Reggie
Luka        

But, we still have holes.  If we are going to use one pick to fill one hole, we might as well use another to finish things off.  In the scenario above Powell, THJ and two picks could be used to acquire Turner and that one more guy.  Depending on the quality of that 'one-more-guy', that might be enough (I'll now wait for Killer to tell me we had that guy and let him go).  Even if we still had Brunson, we'd still need a Turner-type IMHO.

I tend to think Turner would be a great get.

But I also see a 4 major issues with that idea that cause me to question it --
1 Most importantly, Turner is NOT the answer we might hope for a center. He is a rather meh rebounder for a C (only 9 reb-per-36), and rebounding is one of the biggest needs here. IOW not sure that a "Turner-type" is what we really are wanting at all.
2 Indy's price for Turner has a good chance to be sky-high.
3 Turner is an expiring contract, who wants the moon, and there's no way to know if you can re-sign him after trading for him. Like KP.
4 Turner is healthy this year, but in the past has been sidelined a lot by injuries. With the trade price AND the looming contract price, that's scary.

My knee-jerk on Turner is, "Sign me up." But when I kick the tires and look closer, I'm not nearly as excited.