Jimmy Butler.
http://www.slamonline.com/nba/report-jimmy-butler-has-really-rubbed-some-people-the-wrong-way/#YoodzJbeyK7fpCDm.97
jimmy butler cannot shoot. He can play D. Modern day Rodman?
Great D and no offense? Sounds like he's built for this team
In all seriousness though, who can we really target? A lot of the people that are available are declining (P Gasol, Noah etc.), and only offer a very limited window of being a semi-powerhouse team. Do you want to give up assets for that?
When looking for the "disgundled" player, Cousins seems like the only player with superstar potential that we could target, and even then there are other teams that can outbid us, so essentially we have to be the team most willing to take a gamble for that to pan out.
In order for us to evolve into an elite team we have to roll the dice at some point and take on some risk, which could potentially mess with "the program" that Stevens has got our team to buy in to, but unfortunately an over achieving group of role players does not get you a title in the modern NBA, so we need a star, just who? I don't see another KG walking through that door; I don't see us becoming a player in free agency, despite our newly deepened pockets, and we are depending on Brooklyn to land us gold through the draft, (which is a gamble in itslef).
And the big question is how much do you give up?
Just think...we could have potentially drafted Poryzingis if the trade for #4 went through, and that wasn't even Danny's target.
Now we would have to trade every assetts we have to get a player with his potential, and all we would have to do in retrospect is just tank one more year and hope and pray Danny drafts the right guy.
I don't mean to turn this into a tanking debate, I just want to illustrate the cornerstone players that have come out of the draft recently(Wiggins/Towns/Porzingis), that are now virtually untouchable via trade.
So if the the Brooklyn picks don't land us our next star, and we continue on the path of no free agent gold and no trades, where exactly does our star come from?
D league? Can Danny find the next Whiteside? Does Kelly emerge?
I don't mean to be pessimistic, I just think Danny has built all of these assetts up, and they're just not that valuable, so we will end up using the picks on more role players rather than find a star via trade.
Hopefully, someone does emerge, or we slowly build momentum by raising the stock of our role players and trade multiple players for some more elite ones.
I'm just not sure that there will be a franchise player available via trade.
Happy Holidays everyone.
The End.
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