People are overvaluing the Brooklyn Pick around here

[Quetzalcoatl]

The thing is though that having a player on this specific year's rookie salary scale is ridiculous.  It's going up because of the cap change next year.  We can afford to overpay two guys like Hayward and Horford, with a potential all star making like $4 million.  Simmons and Dunn should contribute at a decent level right away, while Dragan and Ingram are very high ceiling prospects.  Are we winning anything paying Kevin Love $20 million?  Even LeBron isn't.  So why cap ourselves out before we even see what pick we get? No move is winning is us a title this year and Durant and Blake are both injury risks.  I'm fine just waiting it out and being patient, unless the deal is really good for us.

[CroCorvus]

The thing is though that having a player on this specific year's rookie salary scale is ridiculous.  It's going up because of the cap change next year.  We can afford to overpay two guys like Hayward and Horford, with a potential all star making like $4 million.  Simmons and Dunn should contribute at a decent level right away, while Dragan and Ingram are very high ceiling prospects.  Are we winning anything paying Kevin Love $20 million?  Even LeBron isn't.  So why cap ourselves out before we even see what pick we get? No move is winning is us a title this year and Durant and Blake are both injury risks.  I'm fine just waiting it out and being patient, unless the deal is really good for us.

I can agree with you that we should not rush up and deal it for whoever, but the real question is do we win more games with let's say Griffin, Love or some other star player and attract other players in the off season, or do we do it with Simmons or Ingram? I say the first, because those kids are still playing college bball, we really don't know how will they perform at the high level... it's a risk and that's the beauty of it...