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
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!
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
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
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.
