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Originally Posted by tap2390
Them having the better pick is irrelevant. We didn't have to convince the Pistons, we had to convince Christian Wood.
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First, "just" to convince Wood to pick us over the Rockets. Rockets had a more sucessul past season with a MVP type player longterm under contract. They also didnt have someone like KP under contract with Wood maybe thinking "Yeah if our pairing doesnt work out im the one off the bench". So i totally see why Wood would pick Houston over us last offseason.
And yes, you had to convince the Pistons too, specially when they had the offer for #16 too. And they had some leverage against Wood too. Wood didnt want to sign with a trash team that had cap space, he wanted to play for a good team and for that a S&T was necessary. So all they had to tell him was "Hey, you want the S&T, so work with us...we prefer Houston...we can also just decline the S&T and let you sign with a shitty team"
So yeah...at the end, even IF we were after Wood i see how Wood likes Houston much more and the Pistons liked it of course also more.