This is really year 2 or 3 of a rebuild depending on how you look at it. Rebuilds take about 6 years at a minimum based on the past 25 years of history. We are adding significant pieces through the draft. They take time to grow. We are planting seeds, not fully grown plants. You don't pull up your peach tree saplings just to throw in a potato. We will add expensive free agents when our contention window begins to open.
Only problem is you can't take 6 years to rebuild when we don't have control of our picks going forward after this season.
There's no need for matching salary to facilitate trades when you have actual cap space .... which you will have after this season concludes & Wall's $40m along with EG's $20m expire. The only players who's contracts are on the books for next year are Tate, Smith, Eason & Tyty. Every other contract is a team option. Next years cap is set at $129,780,000. The team will have $48,156,257 in salary obligations to 13 players and $9,652,893 cap hold for KPJ, assuming he isn't extended by then. They'd have $71,970,850 in cap space to use either in free agency or to take back players in trade without having to send out matching salary.
You also have to have something on your roster besides potential to attract a free agent. Even though we have players with high upside, free agents aren’t going to want to join a team that is still trying to figure out what they have. Not saying we have to do that with Mitchell, but it’s likely going to take that to draw a significant free agent.* *The caveat being that if we sit tight and have maximum cap availability, we could bring in two max players, in which case the team-up is the appealing option for the free agents. Unfortunately, we will have that cap space available at the worst time.
His offensive rating is three points better than his defensive rating, so he’s a net positive. KPJ’s offensive rating 14 points less than his defensive rating, so he’s a net negative… by a lot. And Mitchell’s defensive rating is six points better than KPJ’s. So, there are myriad reasons why. That’s just one of them.
Again, no. Dejounte Murray would have been a better fit if we were going to push a chunk of a war chest in. Also probably a pipe dream since the Spurs are notoriously conservative with trades and we are in division.
I think Rockets can sit on cap space for 2 years before Green's extension is on the books. Green hopefully is a draw so next season may be about getting someone like Myles Turner and taking expirings/ picks off teams in financial trouble. Try to get Jaylen Brown or someone else in 2024. Though, I have no issue going for Mitchell with the idea that he would be used to shake off someone else that fits the Rockets more.
I vote helltothenawnaw. You gotta give it up to Danny Ainge though, dude ain’t messing around out there in Utah.
We should pursue RJ Barrett. Trade expirings and draft capital to facilitate Mitchell away from Brooklyn to go to NYK.
jalen green, and sengun to the jazz for all of the picks they got for gobert and clarkson jabari smith, tari eason, josh christopher and tyty washington for a bunch of the picks from the thunder nix clarkson tate garuba boban start the tank over right this time with the worst record this upcoming season and the 5th pick.
