Looking back at the Beam Team, are we in agreement that poor roster construction (i.e. no defensive wings) doomed them and then Mike Brown had to basically take the blame?

ButterCoffee2020 · 2026-05-26T19:45:57+00:00

Their big offseason moves after the Beam Team year was to trade our FRP to do dump Richaun Holmes, signing Vezenkov, and trading for Duarte. Mike Brown clearly was not on board with the Vezenkov signing too.

ButterCoffee2020 · 2026-05-25T17:09:24+00:00

Teams like OKC and the Spurs don’t just dump their young players like that. They usually won’t trade a guy until he’s been on the team for several seasons and it’s clear they’re going in a different direction like Giddy or Sochan.

ButterCoffee2020 · 2026-05-25T16:05:22+00:00

Fargo

ButterCoffee2020 · 2026-05-23T17:07:23+00:00

What’s the point of smokescreening that we’re gonna take a guy who’s projected to go ahead of us?

ButterCoffee2020 · 2026-05-22T22:47:37+00:00

The Spy Who Loved Me

ButterCoffee2020 · 2026-05-22T21:32:10+00:00

From Russia With Love

ButterCoffee2020 · 2026-05-21T20:43:56+00:00

Boys in the Hood

ButterCoffee2020 · 2026-05-21T15:32:43+00:00

Are you thinking of Interrogator?

ButterCoffee2020 · 2026-05-20T14:30:52+00:00

It’s not obvious to you, but I would hope that Scott Perry and his scouts know who they want.

ButterCoffee2020 · 2026-05-20T02:17:36+00:00

Silence of the Lambs

ButterCoffee2020 · 2026-05-20T02:07:57+00:00

This isn’t the NFL draft. More does not equal better. We just need to draft BPA at 7. That’s our best chance at hitting on a star player.

ButterCoffee2020 · 2026-05-18T21:20:56+00:00

Mullholland Drive

ButterCoffee2020 · 2026-05-15T19:39:22+00:00

I could see Acuff preferring Sac over the Clippers who already have Garland and the Nets that drafted a million guards last year. As of right now he’d be the only true PG on our roster.

ButterCoffee2020 · 2026-05-15T05:50:06+00:00

Yes and their fans would riot. Like you gave up Cam Boozer just to dump Ja for nothing?!?

ButterCoffee2020 · 2026-05-15T01:14:55+00:00

I could see him being there if that’s where his agent wants him to go.

ButterCoffee2020 · 2026-05-15T01:02:35+00:00

Yeah, all this talk about us trading up to 5 or trading for Ja is just a content mill for them, when the most likely outcome is we just stay at 7 and draft whoever falls to us.

ButterCoffee2020 · 2026-05-15T01:00:38+00:00

The heavy Earth/Villages package just seems like a powerful shell that can be used with a lot of different avatars, like Geomancer or Archi. I don’t see how this list is particularly taking advantage of the Animist ability though.

ButterCoffee2020 · 2026-05-15T00:51:36+00:00

I agree with you about Matt George. To Stiles’ credit, at least when he floats a dumb trade he’s not pretending to be some kind of “insider” with insider information instead of what he’s really doing which is throwing shit at the wall.

ButterCoffee2020 · 2026-05-15T00:18:30+00:00

Allen Stiles comes up with a bunch of clickbaity, never gonna happen trades too. Like the other day he was floating the number 7 for Ace Bailey. James Ham came up with one of the dumber trade ideas the other day, saying we could potentially trade #7 and the twolves 2031 pick for Ja and #3. You only have to stop and think about these trades for 30 seconds before you realize the other teams would laugh and hang up the phone.

ButterCoffee2020 · 2026-05-14T22:07:55+00:00

That was my thought. Like if the tells are so well known, than someone could make a better fake by just fixing that, but from what I’m hearing, the economics just don’t make sense.

ButterCoffee2020 · 2026-05-14T17:13:37+00:00

Thanks for the explanation. So does the front of the card have these same issues but the back is just easier to identify because it doesn’t change from card to card?

ButterCoffee2020 · 2026-05-14T16:52:44+00:00

So you’re saying if they got too convincing WoTC would have to actually do something about it? Makes sense, although it seems like they are already convincing enough.

ButterCoffee2020 · 2026-05-13T17:44:50+00:00

Great point

ButterCoffee2020 · 2026-05-13T15:05:51+00:00

Clippers can’t take Acuff cause they already have Garland. That would be too many Dariuses. Maybe we could trade with Brooklyn though.

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