“Yeah, this is gonna be fun,” CEO Danny Ainge said Wednesday morning in a season wrap-up interview with local media. “A lot more draft picks, more money to spend — yeah, a shopping spree. Yeah, this will be more fun — much more fun than last year.”
has been holding exit interviews with players to discuss offseason plans and improvement strategies. He noted that instead of simply dictating areas that he wants players to work on, he instead asks them where they believe they most need to improve, because, “They need to have a level of buy-in and feel like they were a part of their own destiny, so to speak.”
“… Our biggest job is helping them prioritize what to get better at. We had a player come in yesterday who had six things written down that he thought were important to him, and he asked me to rank them. And so I ranked them 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10,” Hardy added. “And that’s only to give him the visual of, ‘If you getright, then you’re gonna make a big jump. And then in the future, we can tackle 7, 8, 9, 10.’ But if I label them 1 through 6, it doesn’t give the relationship between those things.
They know for certain that the Philadelphia pick they own will be No. 28 overall. The other two they have are still unsettled — Minnesota’s theoretically should be No. 16 based on regular-season record, but if the Wolves lose their second play-in game and fall out of the postseason, it will rise to a top-14 pick instead. Also, the Jazz finished with the league’s ninth-worst record, thus giving them the ninth-best lottery odds — so they have a 4.5% chance at the No. 1 overall selection.
Ainge and Zanik both noted the team would cast a wide net in holding player workouts, with the former even joking that there is an “ability to get more people in with multiple picks — you know, bring people in that we’re looking at for the 28th pick, and we can tell them that we’re looking at ’em for the ninth pick.”
The coach and the front office braintrust were all pleased with how the just-ended season played out, in particular citing the substantial progress made by the likes of Lauri Markkanen, Walker Kessler, and Ochai Agbaji.
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