Ant is so good but I’m a little a burned out on guards that are total cones on defense.
Wide-Concentrate7228
Ant, Grant and Ayton doesnt fit the timeline. They are porbably just gonna be filler until we get good assets back.
ewest
I didn’t even think about it or notice it until Mike Richman brought it up on the pod, but it does seem meaningful.
Is it possible an Ant trade is already in place, just unannounced? If not, seems like an unusual choice (if not a flub) on Cronin’s part to not even make a Funkhauser gesture and include Ant in his core shortlist for the sake of at least trying to buoy the trade value. Usually he’s pretty good about doing that, pointless as it may be.
SentientTooth
I hope we can trade Ant to a contender where he can be the first guy off the bench. I think he’s a 6MotY candidate in that scenario.
dukkha_dukkha_goose
With Quickley signing at $35m a year and all these other giant numbers popping up, Ant on $25m is becoming a better and better asset.
Semi-relatedly, Grant’s contract looks normal already, as expected.
Mister_Mangina
Ant is going home, it’s only a matter of time. Orlando will use their cap space to go after guys like Hartenstein/KCP and then once that’s tapped out a trade will happen for Ant.
Damezang
It is pretty telling. If it was a bit of a mistake, then expect Cronin to reiterate support for our current vets at the press conference on Saturday. Think that will be especially revealing if he doubles down on building around Scoot and Sharpe etc. Hope someone at the press conference actually asks about this.
HurricaneSpencer
If there is one thing I have learned from Cronin, it’s if he says he’s committed to something, he probably isn’t that committed. I only base this off of historical actuality.
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Ant is so good but I’m a little a burned out on guards that are total cones on defense.
Ant, Grant and Ayton doesnt fit the timeline. They are porbably just gonna be filler until we get good assets back.
I didn’t even think about it or notice it until Mike Richman brought it up on the pod, but it does seem meaningful.
Is it possible an Ant trade is already in place, just unannounced? If not, seems like an unusual choice (if not a flub) on Cronin’s part to not even make a Funkhauser gesture and include Ant in his core shortlist for the sake of at least trying to buoy the trade value. Usually he’s pretty good about doing that, pointless as it may be.
I hope we can trade Ant to a contender where he can be the first guy off the bench. I think he’s a 6MotY candidate in that scenario.
With Quickley signing at $35m a year and all these other giant numbers popping up, Ant on $25m is becoming a better and better asset.
Semi-relatedly, Grant’s contract looks normal already, as expected.
Ant is going home, it’s only a matter of time. Orlando will use their cap space to go after guys like Hartenstein/KCP and then once that’s tapped out a trade will happen for Ant.
It is pretty telling. If it was a bit of a mistake, then expect Cronin to reiterate support for our current vets at the press conference on Saturday. Think that will be especially revealing if he doubles down on building around Scoot and Sharpe etc. Hope someone at the press conference actually asks about this.
If there is one thing I have learned from Cronin, it’s if he says he’s committed to something, he probably isn’t that committed. I only base this off of historical actuality.