What does Morey do now?

I'd love Eric Bledsoe , but I would wish we could pry Goran away instead. I don't think Pierce will leave BRK , but if he did it would be back home with LAC

 

Dragic, or find a way to garner assets for love.

 

Before the Parsons deal tomorrow? Lance Stephenson and Paul Pierce!

After that, try to trade for Bledsoe / Dragic and or Millsap.

Butler / Marion, Brooks, Garcia and Daniels are MLE, veterean minimum guys I like!

 

Bledsoe,
Ersan
Love,
Rondo
Milsap
Dragic

and then match Parsons.

 

Yeah, Love and.....Rondo, Dragic, or Rubio.

 

Mirotic

 

Which would probably be the first step in a Kevin Love move, but I can't see them giving him up easily. Chicago appears to have conceded a chance at Love by getting Pau. I don't see how Gasol, Noah and Love would make sense.

 

Les has repeatedly said hed pay the tax for a player that was worth it. There was no player that we could have obtained in Yao-Tmac years that wouldve made it worth it. By the time we finally were able to get a decent team around those guys, both were falling down from injuries.

TMac-Yao Year 1: loss to dallas, wouldve been decent team and diff outcome if Juwon didnt get hurt forcing us to play the Germinator Ryan Bowen

TMac-Yao Year 2: Back spasms for tmac

Year 3: Yao Injured
Year 4: Yao out for season in feb
Year 5: Tmac out with knee and shoulder probs

 

Josh Smith probably being easiest to acquire. Paul Millsap in an ideal world.

 

Josh Smith, hell no!

 

Ed Davis Kris Humpries and a back up Sg/Sf

 

I hope Rockets target Dallas.. with drones..

 

Whats the word on okafor?

 

A package of Illyasova and Zaza. I think both can be had for cheap and we have our TPEs.

 

Trade for Mirotic

Sign Mirotic ($8 million)

Sign Llull ($4 million)

Sign Papanikolaou ($2 million)

Sign Johnson ($0.8 million)

Sign Daniels ($1.5 million)

Match Parsons

Bev / Llull / Johnson
Harden / Daniels
Parsons / Papanikolaou
Mirotic / TJones
Howard / DMo

 

Llull and Ilysova.

 

Option 1: Paul Millsap!
Option 2: Ryan Anderson
Option 3: Ersan Ilyasova
Option 4: Josh Smith (only I we can't get the above 3 an we need someone before matching Parsons

The Wild Card: Lance Stephenson

 

Taj Gibson, Trevor Ariza, Dejuan Blair, Andray Blatche, Matt Bonner. Since the big three era seems to be over we need to concentrate on a deeper bench and role players, not sure Parsons is worth 15 mil so we keep him and trade as soon as possible for a couple of really good players.

 

I want at least three guys with our remaining cap. A wing defender, another PG, and a backup big.

Wing defenders:
Ariza
Stephenson
Deng

PG:
Jameer Nelson
Sergio Llull!
Augustin

Big:
Okafor
Keep Asik!
Birdman

And then I want to match Parsons.

Ideal scenario for me actually would be to get Ariza in as a defender/shooter for 10-11M, then pay Llull 5M x3yrs to be our backup point, then bring in Okafor. Scenario two would be not to trade Asik, sign Ariza and then Jameer on like a 2yr 3-4M deal.

 

From what I've seen of Morey over the years, he doesn't settle for lesser players in order to fill a roster spot - especially under a time crunch. He seems more inclined to be patient, sign unheard-of and low-cost players that turn out to be very competent, and wait for a better future opportunity.... which we usually love and praise him for.

I suspect he won't match on Parsons (which is a bummer, but probably wise).
I suspect he WON'T sign another player to a high-dollar contract (unless it's an all-star player deal that we haven't thought of).
I suspect he won't sign Ariza (and I hope he doesn't, 'cause I'm not impressed with Ariza)

... and I suspect he'll be patient and continue to build other assets, such as cap space and draft picks.