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You're the GM this offseason. What do you do?

how many teams can offer max contract this offseason?


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Saint Cy of JFC said:
At best you get Lamb for 14 a year. That's best case scenario imo.
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Prolly pretty close... guys in that range sometimes run out of cap space teams and end up settling for MLE type money or slightly better. He has a rep as a spacey dude... may hurt his value a bit. Not sure who his reps are but for guys like Aminu and Lamb getting good advice will be key... wait too long and they may miss on the bigger deals.

I think 12-16 each for both guys is pretty reasonable and the years obviously matter.
 
Ok... here’s actually the moves I do (and the only one where I say I bring in Kevin Love without reservation):

- Exum and Favors for Conley.

- If a team like Chicago or Phoenix is looking to sign Rubio, assuming they have cap space, work it out as a sign-and-trade so we can have enough exiting salary in a three-way to pick up Love for Jae and Kyle.

- Then use the MLE on someone good.

Conley
Mitchell
Ingles
Love
Gobert
 
infection said:
Ok... here’s actually the moves I do (and the only one where I say I bring in Kevin Love without reservation):

- Exum and Favors for Conley.

- If a team like Chicago or Phoenix is looking to sign Rubio, assuming they have cap space, work it out as a sign-and-trade so we can have enough exiting salary in a three-way to pick up Love for Jae and Kyle.

- Then use the MLE on someone good.

Conley
Mitchell
Ingles
Love
Gobert
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dong2ha said:
how many teams can offer max contract this offseason?


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If you are talking about teams who have the space to add a max free agent that isn't their current player:

Knicks
Clippers
Nets
Mavs
Hawks
Pacers
Lakers
Kings

Then if you talk about the teams with max level players who could potentially leave and give them max space:

Sixers - Butler, Tobias, Redick could leave
Bucks - Middleton, Lopez, Mirotic could leave and they could let Brogdon leave
Warriors - Durant, Klay and Cousins could leave

Then there are a few teams who could let current guys go to carve out the space. We are one of those teams and there aren't many realistic ones.
 
I would re-visit the Conley trade. My theory has been that DM is a point guard long term. I think that is ideally where we'd play him with the right 2 or 3... we just need playmaking and defense and Conley can do that. DM has been great post AS break on catch and shoot 3s and was good last year. I think Conley may be the best high end player we could get with our "space" (opt in to Favs deal and then trade him) and 1st rounder. It sucks because he is not a big long term piece, but the NBA is different now and windows are tighter imo. So Favs/Exum 1st for Conley (send Bradley too if you need to).

If you can do a Conley deal prior to FA you now have your full MLE you can work with and BAE. You may be able to get Conley and Danny Green, Rudy Gay, on the MLE... sign a decent backup big on the BAE. This is our most realistic best case option imo.

If we do not get that deal done I would look to move Crowder on draft night for a second or package him to move up... I'd try to take back no salary or very little salary if possible. I think Jae still has some value and I'd like to move him to create more space. Not sure if Korver is going to want to come back next year, but if he wants to be back (and not retire) then I think he is still a good regular season rotation piece and vet leader. If he is ready to call it quits we can waive and stretch the $3m or so he is guaranteed and clear some additional space.

You go big game hunting for Harris, Middleton, Kemba and likely fail. I don't max out a guy like Russell. I'd look hard at Brogdon, but we can't tie up our space just to have that deal matched. If it appears you are going to be left out you pivot on the guys like Bogdonovic, Niko, Lamb/Aminu (as mentioned by @Saint Cy of JFC ), and then to guys like Thad Young, Millsap, Randle, Ross, Green, Gay... guys that may be worth a little more than MLE and see who bites. Depending on what that looks like then you address Favs guarantee and make a decision. I have a conversation with him early about "hey if we decline this option and give you 4/50 would you want to stick around" could clear just enough space to add the other guys we want.
 
What about Jae and our 1st for RoCo? He's a better shooter and superior defender imo. I'd have some concerns about his rebounding/assist numbers though.
 
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Given Tony Jones comments about us not running back the same squad, is there any chance Gobert is traded?
 
Trade Gobert for another star. Retain Favors as our starting center. Let Rubio go and try and sign the biggest FA we can.


No chance the Jazz actually trade Gobert though.
 
I would trade Gobert if it returned the right player. I'm just not so sure who that would be.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
I would re-visit the Conley trade. My theory has been that DM is a point guard long term. I think that is ideally where we'd play him with the right 2 or 3... we just need playmaking and defense and Conley can do that. DM has been great post AS break on catch and shoot 3s and was good last year. I think Conley may be the best high end player we could get with our "space" (opt in to Favs deal and then trade him) and 1st rounder. It sucks because he is not a big long term piece, but the NBA is different now and windows are tighter imo. So Favs/Exum 1st for Conley (send Bradley too if you need to).

If you can do a Conley deal prior to FA you now have your full MLE you can work with and BAE. You may be able to get Conley and Danny Green, Rudy Gay, on the MLE... sign a decent backup big on the BAE. This is our most realistic best case option imo.

If we do not get that deal done I would look to move Crowder on draft night for a second or package him to move up... I'd try to take back no salary or very little salary if possible. I think Jae still has some value and I'd like to move him to create more space. Not sure if Korver is going to want to come back next year, but if he wants to be back (and not retire) then I think he is still a good regular season rotation piece and vet leader. If he is ready to call it quits we can waive and stretch the $3m or so he is guaranteed and clear some additional space.

You go big game hunting for Harris, Middleton, Kemba and likely fail. I don't max out a guy like Russell. I'd look hard at Brogdon, but we can't tie up our space just to have that deal matched. If it appears you are going to be left out you pivot on the guys like Bogdonovic, Niko, Lamb/Aminu (as mentioned by @Saint Cy of JFC ), and then to guys like Thad Young, Millsap, Randle, Ross, Green, Gay... guys that may be worth a little more than MLE and see who bites. Depending on what that looks like then you address Favs guarantee and make a decision. I have a conversation with him early about "hey if we decline this option and give you 4/50 would you want to stick around" could clear just enough space to add the other guys we want.
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Why wouldn't you max Russell? Jazz need to take a risk. We're not getting of the normal "max" players. Only way we get talent is taking a risk of overpaying or trading a star player a la Gobert, which I'm not opposed to anymore.
 
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