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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Ultimately you trade up for an immediate need you believe you can fill with a scarce prospect available to you now.

If you can fill that need later, you don't trade up. If it doesn't feel the need now, you don't trade up.

Or if you think it's a truly superlative prospect who's fallen for some point, you consider the long-term picture and trade up. But again, 'truly superlative' is rare. It's McDuffie.

It's not Simmons, IMO. Even a healthy Simmons isn't that guy.

And there's not an immediate need nor is there someone that can fill it now. So you don't trade up for Conerly.

You play the board. If that means taking Conerly because he's at the top of your board at 31 -- fine. Or if that means taking a DL and then Ersery or Charles Grant because THEY'RE at the top of your board at the back of 2 -- also fine.

This isn't a situation where you trade up, IMO.

You play it as it lays.

Absolutely all of this.