Alright... here’s what I’d try to do.
Sign Rudy Gay with full mini-MLE 3/18
If that doesn’t happen then give Batum the same offer. My worry is his motivation seems to waiver a bit. One of those guys needs to replace Bogey...
Trade Bogey to Dallas for Kleber. Saves 9M and now we can play 5 out when we need to... if that doesn’t work then...
Trade Bogey to Charlotte in a three team deal... hayward to Indy... Turner and Bojan to Charlotte... we get Washington (my preference) or Bridges and take Lamb in the deal. Saves us a few million in salary and helps us play 5 out. I think I prefer this deal to the Dallas one. Lamb is perpetually injured but a good player if he can stay healthy and he is expiring.
Then you see what you can do with Favs... can you get a smaller deal in... can you get a different player type? Saving a few million would really help with the tax.
We have to keep Mike to have any hope so cut salaries around the edges. I think we lose some shooting with Bojan but get better basketball players and can move to 5 out lineups when need be.
Sucks we have to bench our highest paid player at points in the playoffs but there are scenarios where we just have to do it.
I appreciate the effort, but couple things I see:
- I'm with Cy - I'm not a big fan of Rudy at that price tag for that length.
- I don't think we should be worried about saving money unless we are having to avoid the hard cap. So the Kleber deal is something I would avoid. He's a lateral move at best.
- I like the 3 team deal concept with Indiana and Charlotte, but I would be either targeting Rozier or dumping Favors in that deal. Charlotte would be clearing Hayward and getting Turner. I think they could afford to take on Favors too with all that cap space. So we trade Bojan and Favors, and get back Lamb, Bridges and scraps.
- If we can do all the above and keep Mike, then we do it.
- And we also sign somebody who can play small ball 5 - Theis, Olynyk, OPJ, Batum
Add Lamb, Bridges, small ball 5 guy
Keep Conley
Lose Bojan and Favors
I'm not blown away, but it could work to improve us.