re: Jake Fischer: An unofficial poll of executives have BI above Trae Young

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If that's what we do with a supposedly transcendental star, we're doomed to mediocrity. You're talking about a transcendental overall #1 pick becoming little more than a cutter off the ball.

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He's a supposedly transcendental star that has proven fragile enough that you may not want to play him full time as the PG, both for fatigue/injury reasons and so you have redundancy built into the roster. We also have seen him fail as a PG in crunch time. Every time he's gotten in good enough shape that we think it might be different in crunch time, he's gotten injured, so we still don't know how transcendental can be.

There are enough questions about Trae, Garland and everyone else that the "safe" target in Murray is still at the top of my list. But trading BI and not getting a creator back just seems like the worst plan they could possibly come up with. Especially when we're arguing over how much Point Zion we should have not because we are trying to find the true answer to that question, but because you afraid of what furniture you might break if they do end up trading for Trae