This is a good point. From what I can remember, he was playing well up to then.
He's playing on a team that needs defenders, here he'd be on a team that needs shooters.
It’s literally our best chance at a lottery pick until Wemby retires.
We have those Kings and Timberwolves swaps.
We also have swaps from Dallas and Boston. All it takes is one Achilles to implode for those to be incredibly valuable also
Further out is harder to project. I thought that Minny swap would be gold, that they would go the way of those Memphis and Sacto squads that plucked high seeds for a year, then fizzled. Instead, they’ve been to the WCFs two years in a row. Sacto swap might be better,but all of their bloated contracts will be off the books by summer of 2028, giving them 3 seasons to tank and rebuild. They own all of their FRPs during that time.
Don’t be surprised if Dallas magically draws another high pick this year, and Boston doesn’t look to be anywhere near as cooked as people thought. They’re dangerous this year.
As you say, it's hard to project, but it's the Kings and they're basically guaranteed to be perma-bad.
He's really bad defensively. Also offensively all he does is shoot.
How's that any different from Klay Thompson at this point.
I think this year is our best chance. There are to many variables on the pick next year
Wouldn't want Klay either
Don't play with my emotions like this
Castle will go for an efficent 8-20 tonight, tbh.
It literally can't be a downgrade because Sochan isn't in the rotation even when we're missing players.
I know we are the "do good by him" kings even if it is a scrub-tier player in question, but Sochan is still a former Top 10 pick who is only 22, so they better wring something out of his impending move even in the form of facilitation to a transaction of their own to shore up this year's roster (marginally so, that is)..Wright (and his crew) should be aware the 2022 draft turning into a total wipeout for them is not a good look.
There are even more variables on the future swaps.
2022 draft cratered as a sacrifice to the lottery gods... said gods responded by giving us Wemby, Castle and Harper. I'm not gonna lose much sleep over 2021 or 2022...
Just from a probability point of view, I'd say next year's ATL pick is a lot more predictable than any of those far out swaps. I think we can comfortably count on it being in that 12-18 range, with some fringe probability higher or lower than that (kind of like this year's pick). The ATL27 definitely has a well defined bell curve around a normal distribution centered around pick 14-15 IMO. Whereas those picks 5+ years away have a flat probability distribution that tails off at the edges.
