Somewhere between everyone’s optimism of adding someone good, and your pessimism about the summer, resides Kevin Love.
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Imma laugh when we do or don’t get him. So the prediction at least provides some comedy for a potentially terrible situation.
Basically, if we bring in any "big name" guys, I'm only seeing three possible: 1a. Conley 1b. Love or a distant 3. Blake Griffin. Those are really the only guys I can see us being able to land, and Griffin is real iffy and would depend on Detroit really mailing it in and settling for a couple first rounders.
One advantage with Love is being able to actually have rebounders on the floor to close our games. The games where Favors played, his rebounding always kept us alive, but how many games did he close? How many games did we lose by not securing defensive rebounds?
Keefe
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Kemba's the only one we have a shot at.
Keefe
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That article was thin.
Keefe
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Why the hell would we keep Rubio?
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This shtick may prove omniscient.
LoPo
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Because he has heart, can defend, knows the offense, gives us quality depth off the bench, is loved by the core, is a massive upgrade over Neto. Overall, he makes us better is he is coming off the bench on a reasonable deal.
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I'm confused.
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I think I'd do Love (28.9M) and their 1st from Houston (pick 25?) for Favors, Exum, and Korver--that's 33.5M.
I may even consider it without the 1st. This would free them up big time money-wise, give them a legit 4/5 and an intriguing prospect in Exum. I'm not sure they'd want to do that as Love may fill seats but yet bring mostly losses--which might be smart on their end. And FWIW, Thompson has just one more year on his deal there. Favors could get about 5-8 minutes at the 4 (with TT at the 5) and see another 20-22 minutes at the 5.
If we renounced Rubio, Sef, and Udoh, we'd be at 88.158M if my math is right for:
Neto
Mitchell-Allen
Ingles-O'Neale
Love-Crowder-Niang
Gobert-Bradley
If we could shed Neto and Bradley too, we'd then have about 4M more in cap space and about 25M total. That could net us a legit point guard (especially if we pulled this trade off during draft--I know it can't be official til after) in that we might be a more attractive team/contender than before the trade.
We'd also have two 1sts in this draft which we could use in many different ways...moving up...flipping for a team's 1st next year...in trading for a pg somehow.
I may even consider it without the 1st. This would free them up big time money-wise, give them a legit 4/5 and an intriguing prospect in Exum. I'm not sure they'd want to do that as Love may fill seats but yet bring mostly losses--which might be smart on their end. And FWIW, Thompson has just one more year on his deal there. Favors could get about 5-8 minutes at the 4 (with TT at the 5) and see another 20-22 minutes at the 5.
If we renounced Rubio, Sef, and Udoh, we'd be at 88.158M if my math is right for:
Neto
Mitchell-Allen
Ingles-O'Neale
Love-Crowder-Niang
Gobert-Bradley
If we could shed Neto and Bradley too, we'd then have about 4M more in cap space and about 25M total. That could net us a legit point guard (especially if we pulled this trade off during draft--I know it can't be official til after) in that we might be a more attractive team/contender than before the trade.
We'd also have two 1sts in this draft which we could use in many different ways...moving up...flipping for a team's 1st next year...in trading for a pg somehow.
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Royce was the lone bright spot in the playoffs. The only one who played consistently all the time. He did the best job on harden, hit the 3, stayed focused. If everyone around him had played with 60% of his consistency we'd be advancing.
I like the idea, but I think it will take a first and a second to get Love. DL doesn’t have any bargaining power, and if we get to the point where we’re considering Love, then it’s because we’re desperate. Despite it being obvious that Cleveland needs to dump him, they can point to the fact that they gave him that awful extension last year as why they’re not eager to dump him, and ultimately we’ll rationalize that we’re landing a 4-time all star and we’ll pony up the pick.
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Are you slow too?? It's a fantasy exercise. Get over it. It's like you see trade Gobert and your eyes glaze over and want to make a statement while sitting on your high horse. Idiot..!!