Trade Favors for cap space. OKC and a handful of other teams could use him. And frankly, teams like OKC who have so many needs would be dumb to spend their 1st on a center imo given the antiquated nature of the position. It’s a league of slashing and shooting. They’d be better suited drafting players with such skills and filling the C by committee. IMO. This is thee most important move IMO. It frees up space and allows us to fill our gaps.
Draft Primo. We need more players like this. Guys who can dribble, penetrate, shoot and defend. He needs to become a better passer but the kid is super young and I see no reason that a kid with such a strong defensive iq can’t develop his passing skills. Especially if our training staff is so strong.
Buy a 1st and/or 2nd and draft BPA.
Offer Conley 3/55. If he declines which I assume he will, try to sign and trade him. If we can’t, move on.
Gobert and Mitchell need to full press Batum to sign with us. Given the drama that is LA, how close knit we are, and another Frenchie here in Gobert, I think he’d sign. Something like 3/45 with a TO after year two if possible.
Sign a PG. There’s a ton of them. UFA’s like Dinwiddie and Payne should be at the top of our list. There are other guys as well. But one guy not mentioned anywhere on the site who’s a RFA who’d be somewhere around 6th on my list who I’d pursue is Devonte’ Graham. He’s smaller. But he’s 25 y/o so he fits in with our timeline. And he hit 37.5% from 3 last year on 8.7 attempts per game. 5.4 assists per game. Had over 7 per game the year before. Guy is really nice offensively and small so not too dissimilar to Conley in that regard. A shaky defender but Charlotte sucks. With Gobert, Batum, O’Neale, Mitchell here so far as defense and leadership, I see no reason he can’t be a much better team defender. I think an offer of 3/33 might be enough to snag him. Charlotte already has Ball, Rozier and Monk in the backcourt. Hayward, Bridges and Washington up front. I don’t see Graham in their long-term plans. Another direction we could go is someone on the super cheap like Elfrid Payton who’s a good defender and is mediocre on offense. But Id
Sign Hernangomez. 2/6.
Graham-Bought 1st or 2nd
Mitchell-Clarkson
O’Neale-Ingles-Primo
Bogey-Batum
Gobert-Udoka-Hernangomez
What’s all this do? Gets us long wings in Batum and Primo who can defend many positions, handle the ball and shoot. Get us a lot younger. Sure we add Batum who’s older but he basically replaces Conley in that regard. With Favors going out though and additions such as Graham, Primo and the other 1st/high 2nd that we won’t whiff on with new management around, we have a nice infusion of youth and talent. Lastly, we add more ball handling. Graham, Primo, even Batum, and the other 1st/2nd I propose we draft a point guard or combo guard with, adds more guys who can run an offense and handle the rock.
I’m guessing we’d end games with
Mitchell
O’Neale
Bogey
Batum
Gobert
That’s a great ****ing blend of defense and offense with shooting galore.
