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You're the GM this offseason. What do you do?

All the tea leaves seem to indicate that Kyrie is headed to Brooklyn... almost surely means Dinwiddie or Russell (sign and trade or just waive his rights) will be on a different team. I'm not sure if Kyrie and Spencer would be best friends or worst enemies. They are both intelligent, deep, different dudes. Kyrie and D'Lo doesn't make a ton of sense to me. Either way the Kyrie to Brooklyn domino is good for us. They could sign both Kyrie and Tobias, but all the talk of Tobias wanting a good environment and being a little uneasy with the drama in Philly leads me to think maybe Kyrie wouldn't be an ideal pairing.
 
I wonder if Brooklyn would go for a Jae plus a 2020 1st for Spencer trade? If we did it July 1 they now have enough space to sign Kyrie while keeping D'Lo's caphold. Could use the 2020 pick to dump Crabbe to Atlanta if they got a yes from KD/Jimmy/Tobias and Kyrie.

We might miss on Tobias, but if you got Dinwiddie and then used space to get Rudy Gay, Niko, or some other stretch 4 option that could work really well. Could opt to keep Favs, though I'm opposed, and have either MLE/BAE to fill in some holes or carve out 10-13Mish with some moves.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
I’d be open to that but I think that bridge was burned. I also think Mike is way better than George at this point in their careers.

There are lots of roads to contention... I don’t think we should rule out viable options because the players are older... old players win at the highest levels of the league. They just do.

Your tone of it being a dumb idea we should all move on from was the irritating part... seemed especially weird coming off of last nights game where Kyle and Steph both had great games and are in the same age range as Mike.
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You really should read my posts. Conley isnt a bad idea. He would help us on the court. I just don't think he is worth the sacrifices it would take to get him. It would be rhe last big play we had before had the big pay days for Rudy, Donovan and Royce.

He makes us better, but I don't think he makes us that much better. He isn't a dumb idea but one I definitely would avoid.

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LoPo said:
You really should read my posts. Conley isnt a bad idea. He would help us on the court. I just don't think he is worth the sacrifices it would take to get him. It would be rhe last big play we had before had the big pay days for Rudy, Donovan and Royce.

He makes us better, but I don't think he makes us that much better. He isn't a dumb idea but one I definitely would avoid.

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He makes us WCF better. Especially if it forces us to move on from Favors as our starting 4. Once you get into those echelons, the inertia carries you, so it’s easier to add quality guys and keep things going, but it’s hard as **** to get enough momentum to get that boulder rolling. Conley gets that boulder rolling. Farting on it doesn’t.
 
LoPo said:
Screw Conley. Dream bigger than that

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LoPo said:
32 year old PG costing us a 1st rounder and all financial flexibility.

Brilliant

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LoPo said:
You really should read my posts. Conley isnt a bad idea. He would help us on the court. I just don't think he is worth the sacrifices it would take to get him. It would be rhe last big play we had before had the big pay days for Rudy, Donovan and Royce.

He makes us better, but I don't think he makes us that much better. He isn't a dumb idea but one I definitely would avoid.

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I mean screw Conley and describing the idea sarcastically as "brilliant" seems to indicate you think its a bad idea.
 
infection said:
He makes us WCF better. Especially if it forces us to move on from Favors as our starting 4. Once you get into those echelons, the inertia carries you, so it’s easier to add quality guys and keep things going, but it’s hard as **** to get enough momentum to get that boulder rolling. Conley gets that boulder rolling. Farting on it doesn’t.
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I also think when you have the Kawhi, Pascal, Lowry's you can find the Van Vleet, Gasol, Green additions to fill in the cracks.

If we have Rudy, DM, Conley that's pretty damn good and it all fits... add in Ingles, Royce, Jae as great to solid role players. Maybe Grayson develops, Niang improves, our 1st or 2nd this year hits... or we find some undervalued superstar in the waiting "Caruuuuuusssssoooo" (said in a whisper voice). There could be a role player on a less desirable contract that shakes loose too... like Gasol, Niko, did this year... or a guy that signs for the room exception because his market dries up like Lopez.

I prefer signing Harris/Kemba for nothing... but Conley is second on my list. Russell is after that for me... I just think he is as likely to regress as he is to improve. His mid range shooting and decent off the dribble three is what made him semi-efficient this year... it could be real improvement or one year outlier. I'm not sure he is ever a guy who draws fouls or can get to the rim and living in the mid range is not a recipe for big success.
 
LoPo said:
You really should read my posts. Conley isnt a bad idea. He would help us on the court. I just don't think he is worth the sacrifices it would take to get him. It would be rhe last big play we had before had the big pay days for Rudy, Donovan and Royce.

He makes us better, but I don't think he makes us that much better. He isn't a dumb idea but one I definitely would avoid.

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I like Royce as much as the next guy, but he’s going to have to pull out a MIP season to be mentioned in this context.
 
I mean say we strike out and can get Conley for Exum, whoever we draft this year, and a 2021 top 10 protected pick... we'd still have $10-16M to spend on other positions depending on what we did with Korver and Neto. Could get you a decent stretch 4... some wing depth... like what else would we really need? Conley, DM, Ingles, Jae or Royce (or Niko or Rudy Gay), Rudy is super solid starting 5... add some depth pieces with the $10M and the room exception.
 
So Dallas... they don't have max space... Powell is picking up his option, so even if they waive all their capholds except the Zinger's they are still short of the max. Need to stretch Courtney Lee or move him for less salary. Don't have draft assets to really add a sweetner.

Anyway... know they were mentioned as a Tobias destination, but they'd have some work to do to clear the space.
 


Locke talking about trading our first +/- Favors for Kevin Love, which is the deal I've been talking about so much that I've decided to not talk about it. He thinks Kemba and Tobias likely not on the table and then you have to get a deal done on someone. He feels like our trade market for Conley isn't really big and that your backup is Love, and that's what he's doing is trading our pick and Favors in the mock draft he's doing. So, there you have it, folks.
 
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