Where’s Mitchell?If we waive Favors, promote Bradley, here's our lineup. Rudy, Bradley, Jingles, Jae, Royce, Neto, Exum, Allen, Niang Two rookies, and two legally ded people and then let's make a deal.
So if we totally whiff on everything, do we take Hayward back? What if it came down to Hayward or Love?
Yeah I forgot Spidey. Maybe we only need one legally ded person.Where’s Mitchell?
I would love to have Hayward back.
EwwWhere’s Mitchell?
I would love to have Hayward back.
Looking over the list, pretty high. You had Nash, Kobe, Jamal Crawford, and a restricted Ginobili. I don’t remember the complete breakdown of what each team obtained, but I’d wager that we probably had the best free agent acquisitions.What tier were Boozer and Okur that offseason we landed them both?
we already haveI think this scenario is as likely as us striking gold. Do we pick up Favs option then what? Promote Naz and Cavanaugh? Make Exum the savior? Promote Herpes, Cousins or Lyles? Resign Cooley, Cotton and Sap Jr?
lmaoIf we got Rozier, Randle and Favors, we are a contender.
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I mostly agree. The only problem is we have a small window to try and add that third piece before we have to give Rudy a supermax and Donovan a max. We basically have this offseason and next plus the next two trade deadlines, and the free agent class next offseason sucks.
Another thing that really worries me is there are a lot of star free agents this year and the Lakers and Clippers both have the cap space to add one or two of them. Imagine if Durant and Kawhi go to the Clippers and Kyrie goes to the Lakers or the Lakers trade for Anthony Davis. If both of those teams improve and we don't they will likely pass us by. Instead of being a 5 seed next year we could easily drop to 7th.
If we miss out on all our top free agent targets then I think we'll be very aggressive on the trade market, if we strike out there too we're ****ed.
As for taking on bad contracts, what do we get in return, a 2nd round pick? There are quite a few teams that will be able to take on bad contracts and just a few teams that will need to get rid of a player here and there. I'm guessing Charlotte would love to dump Batum if they give Kemba the super-max, but they're not going to give up a lottery pick to do so. No way. And even if they did, we'd have lots of competition that would drive down the price.Regardless, use our cap space to take back bad contracts so we can get draft or other assets.
If Kyrie goes to Brooklyn, the Jazz could pursue Dinwiddie...
https://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/253940/Kyrie-Irving-Nets-Have-Mutual-Interest
I don't audibly laugh out loud at things on forums all that often but this one got me.If we got Rozier, Randle and Favors, we are a contender.
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not only was that a ridiculous statement on its face, but when you consider the pragmatics of signing those three players (offers, cap holds, etc) it looks damn near impossible. In other words, CONTEXT matters. lmao.I don't audibly laugh out loud at things on forums all that often but this one got me.
Boozer was coming off his rookie deal, but was an up and coming young player. For the times, I thought that giving him 12 million a year was a small risk. I’m sure it helped that he had a 30 pt game against us in an overtime game. As for Memo, the only two things I knew about him was he could shoot and was pretty much a bench warmer for the champs. I was very upset with the jazz giving him a multi year 50 million $ contract. Thought it was a massive risk at the time.What tier were Boozer and Okur that offseason we landed them both?
You know, tree-huggers lolTree agent?
Are you off your meds?If we got Rozier, Randle and Favors, we are a contender.
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They'd go after 2nd-tier or 3rd-tier free agents that fit their system, like when they recruited Joe Johnson a few years ago.