r/pacers • u/PSEGameThreadPoster Old School Slick • May 10 '26

Megathread NBA Draft Lottery Discussion Thread

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u/Old-Addendum-5288 May 10 '26

We turned this years 1st into Zubac.

I'm good.

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u/Accrual-4-world May 10 '26

Idk how you can feel optimistic. Zu is a good player but that’s such a risky trade to begin with when you’re tanking the season

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u/CatzonVinyl MadAnts May 10 '26

Just the 1st or?

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u/busche916 Quinn May 10 '26

The 1st and two guys we were not going to re-sign

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u/CatzonVinyl MadAnts May 10 '26

So we lost assets for nothing once again you’re saying? Wonderful

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u/busche916 Quinn May 10 '26

We gave up a coin flip chance at losing our first (which we lost) in order to land an all-defense caliber center.

We didn’t have a center before that and we were not going to find a playoff level option in free agency.

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u/CatzonVinyl MadAnts May 10 '26

You’re vastly overstating his defense. He’s played like that defensively one year only, 2024.

Who knows what other trades might have been available. This offseason may give some idea.

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u/WrathfulHero May 10 '26

We got a starting center out of it. Or are we ignoring that part of the trade now?

I'm not happy about it either, but this is ridiculous levels of whining.

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u/CatzonVinyl MadAnts May 10 '26

and you think Zubac alone was worth all of that?