Anyone have any thoughts about the 9-man rotation as it currently stands? I’m looking forward to seeing if Deuce can shake the cobwebs and hit a freakin’ 3.

True but we are prolly the franchise that can become relevant the quickest —media-wise — if that’s what we’re worried about. I’m not.

And fully agree with Nicos above. It’s nonsense to shorten the rotation to 9 players as if we’re heading into the conference finals and we really need to get Randle and RJ on the floor ALWAYS. Rather play more guys but keep pairs or trios together so they know one another’s tendencies.

As for Cam, maybe they’ve simply made up their minds to move on, and they just don’t want him to get hurt (again) before shipping him out. Based on Cam’s physical history, I would support benching him for that specific reason.

And Trae Young has the same nose as Jokic. There, I said it.

Bigger picture- if we’re not going to be actually good we should at least leave the season knowing exactly who our young guys are. It looks like Quick and Grimes are going to play solid minutes and Deuce is at least going to get a real look. I really want to see Obi play more with the starters- we know he’s great in transition but I want to see him running two man actions with Brunson, I want to see him guarding guys who are going to go at him, just give him some real responsibility and let’s see what’s there. I think Cam showed enough flashes to deserve 15 minutes a night but his benching isn’t all that high on my list of grievances, especially if that means Grimes and IQ are each getting around 30 minutes a night.

The picks I am upset about are the ones we punted, 19 and 13. If we had Jalen Johnson and either Griffin or Eason instead of Cam and Ihart+the Milwaukie pick I would be much happier.

Overall though, we all know that our management team has done a mediocre job at best, and arguing if Rose is the worst ever or just pretty bad seems a little pointless.

We all would love a change but unfortunately, that isn’t happening this season. I do think that when we have drafted players, while not perfect overall, we have done well. So my hope is we can use our picks and add some more good young players and not punt or trade away our draft capital.

What I really want more than anything is to move on from Randle and Thibs. Randle has been by far our worst player this year and is almost singlehandedly torpedoing our defense. Until we trade Randle and fire Thibs nothing we do is going to matter because we cannot win with them on the team.

Unless DRed gets hired as GM we’re not getting Bane or Hali with those picks.

Seven other GMs passed on Hali for Avdija, Wiseman, Okongwu, Okoro, Vassell, Killian, and Jalen Smith.

Chances are we’re getting one of those 7 GMs. Not a GM who drafts Hali early.

Man, I thought I was a pessimist. Your take seems to be that not only is our GM demonstrably worse at drafting than the consensus of a message board, there is not even any HOPE of ever getting a GM that can out-draft the consensus of a message board. That’s impressively bleak even for this board.

So did Leon do better than the bot?

You’re arguing against the guy who said no, Leon did not do better than the bot. But you’re just picking side fights about Keon Johnson and stuff while avoiding the actual premise.

Seven other GMs passed on Hali for Avdija, Wiseman, Okongwu, Okoro, Vassell, Killian, and Jalen Smith.

Chances are we’re getting one of those 7 GMs. Not a GM who drafts Hali early.