Yeah, or they just drafted who they wanted at a reasonable pick location.
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Any jerk can get on Instagram and make up a narrative with no real verification and people will run with it like it’s gospel. Plain ass garbage.
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" credible sources"
Another lame opportunity to dunk on the charlotte hornets. Among the entire league, Charlotte had a top 5 draft this year. I don’t care.
If this is true (and it sounds like it definitely could be) there was no avenue for us to trade and still get Kon. Because I bet if we took Ace (and the plan for WAS was to take Kon at 6 and we swap) then Utah would have just taken Kon who they were apparently high on anyways. Glad we didn’t try to get cute and we made sure we got our guy. We don’t need another future late first round pick
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I don’t see how this makes us look bad, we couldn’t get to 6 and still get Kon its simple as that
I don’t know, it sounds like we got played. Is this really that far fetched? It all adds up to me. Yeah there is nothing to be done about it now but this narrative (true or not) will make the team a mark next year at this time. The story adds up.
To me another problem is the fact that it leaked that the FO fell head over heals in love w Kon. That is just enough information to exploit. Who let it slip (Charlotte, DC - who)? Again hopefully we will run a tighter ship next year.
This doesn’t sound credible in the least, it sounds hypothetical.
But I would say based on what info is out there from gms and scouts, IF kon was the hornets clear #1, they couldn’t move down and still get him. The contention on here is that kon, tre and bailey were all on the same tier so moving down 2 spots is great because you still get the leftover.
What seems to be increasingly more clear is that more than just the hornets values kon above Tre and maybe Bailey on fit but certainly Bailey on pre draft noise complications.
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My thing is Utah was disrupting it either way. If we had taken Ace at 4, they would have taken Kon at 5 and we would have lost out on our guy. Utah was always taking whoever was there of Ace/Kon
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Plus besides the fact that this is the same gamesmanship teams play every year. Do you risk moving down and missing your guy? Is another team bluffing and sending out smoke? Do you have intel, trust your intel? Do you like your Plan B’s?
There was no genius move by Ainge, just same things any team does. Just like Philly was sending signals of trades, and we were sending signals of trading up, or down.
If the hornets got the guy they were targeting, then they didn’t get played. Getting played is trading up to 1 and getting Markelle Fultz. Washington missed out more than us, but Tre might be better than ace anyway.
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The genius of Ainge.
Danny ainge, playing retrospect 4d chess. He has a brain the size of a planet.
You spelled peanut wrong, that or you spelled ego wrong 
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Bleeping hilarious.
I don’t think I could ever knowingly draft that big of a headache toddler.