I like Hayward's upside over Ariza, who has already proven twice to be a contract year only player. I'm not taking that risk. Ariza also doesn't fit the contention window.
Garcia is minimum contract guy. Well then tell me which restricted/unrestricted guys you wanna target in 2015. Vague again.
It's possible Lopez opts out. But that requires him to be completely healthy next year. And then again with quadruple ankle injuries he's not going to get value that matches his potential production. Even if healthy if his agent doesn't find a deal through backchannels or below the table in advance, Lopez is better off proving he's healthy.
Trevor Ariza has won a championship, hes had injuries that coincided with his down years, you forget key points like that in your all seeing analysis.
Everyone talks of 3 and D players around here, but clearly the overall sentiment is yall prefer Hayward.
You are flat out wrong about Brook Lopez, if hes healthy and normal he will EASILY get the max, at this point in his career, hes bigger and stronger than most every C, Lopez is like Prime Yao on offense. He punked the Jazz bigmen so bad last year, he barely needed to play in the 2nd half.
Lopez is my preferred Bigman in the 2015 class but IIRC theres a bunch of them, LaMarcus Aldridge, DeAndre Jordan, Marc Gasol, Kevin Love, Asik, enough where if the Jazz had 30 mil in space they could throw out a bunch of offers to worthy players.
Theres a ton of mid-level guys that are interesting; Wesley Matthews, Marco Bellineli, Danny Green, Thaddeus Young
Tobias Harris and Reggie Jackson are restricted. Faried too.
Goran Dragic will opt out, Gerald Green will be on the market, if he has another efficient year, I'd sign him to a decent sized deal no problems.
Maybe even a Gerald Henderson, or Gary Neal. Demarre Carrol, Paul Millsap and Rajon Rondo will be unrestricted aswell.
I can find 100's of scenarios that i prefer over giving Hayward 63 mil, tbh, some of it might take 1 year of patience, but the Tank would strengthen as a result too.