A little bit analysis of Pacers currently salary and squad status 1. 14 players under guaranteed contract, total salary 66.65 mil 2. 4 free agents, 2 of them are restricted free agents 3. 8 players in those 18 are PFs and Cs. (C: Murphy, Foster, Hibbert, Nesterovic, David Harrison(FA); PF: Baston, Granger, McRoberts, Shawn Willimas). Rush and Hibbert would surely be signed, which cause the salary to reach approx. 69.8 mil. That is 1.35 mil short of tax line. If they would like to offer Landry full MLE, they have to do the following 1. don't sign with all 4 free agents. (they still have 4 Cs, 4 PFs) 2. total salary would be 4.5 mil above tax, if they don't waive any player. They are not an immediate contender, so they are very unlikely to pay the tax. 3. If they waive Graham and McRoberts, they can offer 2.9 mil to Landry; if they waive Graham and Baston, they can offer 4.15 mil to Landry. I am quite sure Morey would match these prices. 4. They already have Murphy and Granger. So, if they don't trade, I am not quite understand why they are so interested in Landry.
Nice analysis. I don't think they are "that interested" in Landry. His agent needs to create waves and given the proximity to his home, and his game(s) against them last year, Indy having interest in Landry seems plausible. If they wanted to offer the full MLE, I believe that they would have already done it.
We're worrying too much about this. I don't think next season hinges on keeping Landry, but I do think next season hinges on T-Ming staying healthy and the Rockets acquiring a point guard upgrade before the trade deadline.
We are good at PG. (Remember this NBA finals Fisher and Rondo) PG dont win championship unless is Magic.
Every season hinges on T-Ming staying healthy...it just won't ever happen for the entire year. I do agree that Landry isn't *that* important.
disagree. PG is the perfect position for the rockets to upgrade. C and SG are max players. PF is taken by landry, scola, hayes, dorsey and SF is battier. i think we need a upgrade somewhere and that spot makes the most sense.
alston is a good starting PG. if rondo and fisher can start for finals teams, alston can. what we need is a decent backup PG who can run the offense enough so they don't look clueless like bobby did last yr in the playoffs. along with that, we need a 3rd scorer. PG isn't that bad of a problem.
we NEED carl landry. yao is not gonna last a whole season and we need yao for the playoffs. scola is gonna start. who's gonna be the backup? hayes? god no. we need to sign landry. hopefully that can be done without costing too much.
I'd sign and trade Landry if we could somehow get Rush in the deal, but it would involve other players from both sides, and they have some hefty contracts in Indy (Murphy, Dunleavy, not to mention that albatross deal they gave Tinsley).
You can't sign and trade a restricted free agent. The earliest we could trade Landry if we signed him is Dec. 15th.
Pacers do indeed sound interested given Landry thrashed them at their homecourt last season. Remember how Landry posterized Diogu? That was pretty mean... but do they really want to spend their MLE on a bench PF?(or fringe starter?) I doubt it...Who said McRoberts is that much worse than Landry...certainly not before they were being drafted...
Josh McRoberts & Stephen Graham had team options. I know Graham's option was picked up. Baston's contract is fully guaranteed. Salaries of waived players still count towards the cap.
Granger is a wing just like dunleavy. They don't have to waive anyone to sign a player fo the mle. The team can use that anytime and it is used when over the cap. That's how NY got Jefferies and James for full mle money with maximum raises. Now the LT is another thing.
Granger is PF turned SF. He still plays minutes at PF. Didn't he play mostly at PF in the games against the Rockets this past season?
I assume that Pacers won't let their salary exceeds the tax line. So, I said they can offer xxx to Landry.
Take Tinsley in return if they insist on Landry.Tinsley is a good PG who can enforce our pg position.After all ,Bird has praise Tinsley " he is the one of the best PGs in nba when his brain works normally,but the time his brain works normally takes just 5 percent .
