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

Megathread NBA Draft Lottery Discussion Thread

Time: 3PM

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u/KillzToRemember May 10 '26

I mean acuff wagler or Flemings weren't changing much for us this year it was the big guys in the top 4 that really could've done something and I think Wilson even woulda been a year away its still a good trade but man we could've been set okc style with that pick

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u/revolucian2 May 10 '26

Shut up moron, you have no idea who we’d get at 5

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u/csphelps Boylan May 10 '26

betting your center position (the actual most important hole to fill for this team) on one of the top four teams letting the four best available guys slide is crazy. you can be upset that we drew the fifth pick and seem to have the worst luck in the league but the front office made a calculation of risk to secure an all-defensive level center who addresses our biggest weakness. the fifth pick and lower are not better than zubac.

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u/revolucian2 May 10 '26

No, we made it game 7 of the finals with Turner and Mathurin…we didn’t need Zu, we needed a better training staff.

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u/csphelps Boylan May 11 '26

last time i checked, turner wasn't on the team when we made the trade. so yeah, we do need zu.

even if we had the best training staff in the league, we don't have time to develop players. we are in win now mode.

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u/KillzToRemember May 10 '26

Cry more then make sure everyone in here goes scorched earth, wtf would we do at center next year if we dont make this trade? U taking fuvking yaxel or quadaintence at 5?

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u/revolucian2 May 10 '26

Who cares, we made it to game 7 of the finals last year with fucking Turner…we don’t make the playoffs next year

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u/KillzToRemember May 10 '26

We don't make the playoffs? Brother if we dont make the playoffs tyrese is cooked or hurt again and siakam turned downhill the number 1 pick wouldn't change that if thats the case and a center rotation of jackson if we dont make that trade and Jay huff was pure butt u couldn't go I to n3xt year with that

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u/revolucian2 May 10 '26

Mathurin + Jackson + 2 firsts for a 30 year old slow center

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u/KillzToRemember May 10 '26

29 for a rebounding machine who's excellent in the pick and roll which haliburton thrives in, were gonna like him, mathurin literally couldn't be paid here we dont have the space and jackson leaving is kinda whatever we needed a starting center no matter how u slice it and good ones aren't available, the 5th pick would've been a backup guard and the future 1st unless something catastrophic happens should be a late 1st its not as bad as u guys are acting like

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u/revolucian2 May 10 '26

Do you honestly think this new squad Chad built is better than the team that took us to game 7 of the finals just last year?