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Duke13 wrote:Easy to say Noel would go third in the draft to help prove your point or argument. My guess is if you polled league executives you would get a very wide range of opinions on Noel, this would be due to his very obvious offensive limitations. Some would prolly have him rated that high. I would think most would be very hesitant to give that much up for him. I suppose a lot would be based on team need and roster composition.

kekgeek1 wrote:

Duke13 wrote:Easy to say Noel would go third in the draft to help prove your point or argument. My guess is if you polled league executives you would get a very wide range of opinions on Noel, this would be due to his very obvious offensive limitations. Some would prolly have him rated that high. I would think most would be very hesitant to give that much up for him. I suppose a lot would be based on team need and roster composition.

Fair point, I would be shocked if he would be any lower than 5 though I mean he is younger than 2 highly rated prospects in Hield and Dunn. Also he proved he can be a good defensive player in the NBA. I am not saying there won't be 5 players who won't end up better than noel but at this point I would be shocked if he was not in the 3 to 5 range

TeamRicky wrote:Cheap options in free agency for centers are Cole Aldrich, Ed Davis, Nene, Tarik Black and Ty Zeller.
I like but expect Mahinmi and Biyombo to get paid pretty well. I am not sure if Noah is a cheap option, but hopefully he would be for us with Thibs as the lure.

Roy Hibbert might also be a cheap option since his career has gone south. Does anyone think Thibs could rekindle that defensive fire he used to display?

If we can get a good player at a relative bargain salary, I'd like to target some of these guys. In no case do I want to overpay for anyone.

Camden wrote:Jason had brought up that in trading for Noel, we'd have to pay him as a RFA after the season. Personally, I knew that in bringing it up and I'm okay with that, especially if Noel took his game to another level regardless of the reason (contract year, better coaching, whatever the case may be).

That $25-$30M per year I was ready to dish to Horford would instead be used on Noel and Dieng, assuming this hypothetical trade went down. We'd have the cap space to satisfy both of them in free agency, even if both were to get $15M annually.

I'd be replacing Dieng with Noel in the starting lineup, yeah, but Dieng would still get a heavy dose of minutes. What a three-headed monster situation that could be.

monsterpile wrote:

kekgeek1 wrote:

Duke13 wrote:Easy to say Noel would go third in the draft to help prove your point or argument. My guess is if you polled league executives you would get a very wide range of opinions on Noel, this would be due to his very obvious offensive limitations. Some would prolly have him rated that high. I would think most would be very hesitant to give that much up for him. I suppose a lot would be based on team need and roster composition.

Fair point, I would be shocked if he would be any lower than 5 though I mean he is younger than 2 highly rated prospects in Hield and Dunn. Also he proved he can be a good defensive player in the NBA. I am not saying there won't be 5 players who won't end up better than noel but at this point I would be shocked if he was not in the 3 to 5 range

If Noel was somehow dropped into this draft and was on the same salary scale and control as a rookie it would be pretty hard to pass him up as a proven commodity (there are some concerns that have been outlined earlier) unless you felt really strongly another guy was gonna be a star. At this point of the draft process and evaluation I would take him at 3 and be thrilled. That's subjective though and there are some other nice players available 3-5 that I do like quite a bit.

JasonIsDaMan wrote:

monsterpile wrote:

kekgeek1 wrote:

Duke13 wrote:Easy to say Noel would go third in the draft to help prove your point or argument. My guess is if you polled league executives you would get a very wide range of opinions on Noel, this would be due to his very obvious offensive limitations. Some would prolly have him rated that high. I would think most would be very hesitant to give that much up for him. I suppose a lot would be based on team need and roster composition.

Fair point, I would be shocked if he would be any lower than 5 though I mean he is younger than 2 highly rated prospects in Hield and Dunn. Also he proved he can be a good defensive player in the NBA. I am not saying there won't be 5 players who won't end up better than noel but at this point I would be shocked if he was not in the 3 to 5 range

If Noel was somehow dropped into this draft and was on the same salary scale and control as a rookie it would be pretty hard to pass him up as a proven commodity (there are some concerns that have been outlined earlier) unless you felt really strongly another guy was gonna be a star. At this point of the draft process and evaluation I would take him at 3 and be thrilled. That's subjective though and there are some other nice players available 3-5 that I do like quite a bit.

That's not my argument. If Noel was dropped into this draft with 4/5 years of team control and based on the experience he already has, that is tempting. But I said "current contract parameters". And for Noel, those are RFA in 12 months because he is entering his 4th year.