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Draft well.
Sign Paul Millsap.
Bring over Hanga.
Three things I'd like to see.
"So at the beginning of the free agent period next season, the Spurs won't have cap space until they resign or renounce Ginobili. If they renounce Manu and Blair, don't extend qualifying offers to Neal and Splitter, and waive Bonner, the Spurs would have over $20 million to play with in free agency to remake the team. That means cap room for a max free agent and some change."
http://www.poundingtherock.com/2013/...a-acquisitions
1) Big man in order of preference: Howard/Cousins/Jefferson/West
2) Manu gets what's left below cap
3) Throw MLE at Jarret Jack
Manu may get vet min if it helps sign any more players and I think we have the LLE in the picture too.
Time to go for broke, we can't wait until 2014-15 to make a big free agent move!
Draft well.
Sign Paul Millsap.
Bring over Hanga.
Three things I'd like to see.
Last edited by Buddy Holly; 06-21-2013 at 08:34 PM.
1) Bring in DH12. 2) If Howard doesn't want to come here then offer that whole cap space to Al Jefferson/David West and Jarrett Jack. Talk to both of them and convince them to split that salary between them. They both fit in perfect because they cover the positions we need. 3) Worst-case scenario is to bring back the exact same team. Duncan, TP, and Manu will only be one year older.
Jack is gonna get paaaiiiiid, Howard won't come here, Jefferson is terrible defensively and will totally screw up the Spurs' fast paced offense (he's a bad fit in the system), Cousins will demand a max contract and can probably get one. That leaves West who I'd LOVE to have, moreso than a guy like Millsap. He's nowhere near as good as Splitter but offensively he's 10x better, and he'd fit next to Duncan very well.
West is my no. 1 preference for a big man.
Even if the Spurs were willing to compete with everyone willing to overpay Jarrett Jack, he's going to get offered a starting job somewhere. There's no way he's going to come here to be Tony's backup.
West is great, but I seriously doubt he's leaving Indiana, for the same reasons that our guys don't leave. Class program up there.
We need to resign Splitter and get him to commit to improving his game in the offseason. We also need to keep working with Cory and Nando and try to get them in position to contribute as consistent members of the rotation. If Gary Neal is willing to live with small and inconsistent minutes, we should resign him.
We need to find (draft? sign?) a solid backup small forward and a 4th big man who can do more than Bonner. Hanga might be a possibility as a swingman if we think he's ready. It would be nice to have a couple of inexpensive playoff tested veterans for the deep bench, 2003 Steve Kerr / Kevin Willis style.
Of the free agents I've heard mentioned so far, MWP and Mike Miller both sound like they could be useful additions.
We were one FT away from winning the le. We should focus on subtle fixes, not radically changing the team.
Wes is the guy i would like us to sign but i doubt he leaves the pacers.
I'd cite the chances of landing Dwight at less than 2%, but if he came it would vault the Spurs into the instant favorites for 2014. Many on this site will agree that EVEN if he came, he isn't Spurs material and it won't work out. To that, I say fine. If it doesn't work out, you can always deal him for assets and draft picks. Coward will always have takers
I like the way you think bruh. Like you, I think I'd go for West too. The guy can contribute, without exactly being a ballhog.
No offense, but there are a lot of things messed up about your logic:
-The Spurs can't use the MLE and cap space in the same off-season. So 3) is impossible.
-The max salary is more than $20 Million for a lot of players, and for the others, there's not enough room to give Ginobili any money.
-Jack just finished playing for the MLE (the old one at that). He won't settle for that again.
-No LLE
-The Spurs can actually free up about $26 Million if Diaw and Mills opt out and they amnesty Bonner.
There's a lot of good cap-related discussion in Bruno's salary thread in the Think Tank. You should check it out if you're curious about such things.
Fine then don't offer him anything. Too harsh. He should do what Timmy did which was to let the FO make their moves, sign players, and then take whatever money there is left. If the Spurs use all their cap space to sign a couple of good FA's like Jarrett Jack and David West then so be it. Manu can take the veteran's minimum.
Paul Milsap would be so nice
Millsap is a slight upgrade over Diaw but may cost too much.
He'd probably get the room exception in that scenario ($5.4M/2) unless the Spurs use it on Casspi or another backup three. If they can draft another center, it wouldn't be a bad idea, although I'd prefer them to stay over the cap and make trades.
Trade for Garnett,
Timmy hates him.
Who / what would you use as trade bait?
Bonner's deal, Mills/De Colo and draft picks on draft night. The Spurs can take back more than $6 Million in salary in that scenario. That's more than enough for a Thomas Robinson, Mbah A Moute, Derrick Williams, etc. and enough to make the Dallas deal (Carter, Cunningham and the 13th-overall pick for cap relief).
If the Spurs don't want to keep Splitter, they can sign-and-trade him for up to 150 percent of his first-season salary. So if Splitter starts off making $8.4 Million, the Spurs would be able to take back a player making up to $12.6 Million, which will pretty much be any free agent the Spurs want outside of Howard.
A small sign-and-trade with Neal isn't out of the question, either.
We need to spend the money on a new sixth man. A SG that can drive and make 3 pointers. I don't mind Mayo, but Pop will never allow that. I think Tyreke Evens should be their target. Pop for whatever reason likes JR Smith, too. Let Neal go (someone will overpay him). Resign Manu for no less than 5 per season. Resign Tiago for 7 a season. Make one last run next year.
There's way too many touches to share in this team specially with Kawhi's emergence. That's going to scare of other "star" players.
Tiago Splitter should not be resigned. Shoot, I'd contact Nazr Mohammad, he's unrestricted right? That would probably be a nice bench Center on the cheap. I'd put in a call to Iggy too. A max offer to Cousins while Duncan/Pop teach him. I know as fans we dislike the idea of some of these guys coming over because of the way they act on other teams but it's because we're spoiled. The guys that have come here have learned to accept there role and they have good coaching to get there. I'm sure some of them are not always happy with there role but success and winning has a way of making things okay. The Spurs win and they are good with managing people and believing in them when nobody else will, we've taken D league material and made them look good and made them shine. I'm sure as soon as any of these cases were to put up 25 and 15 we'd be saying, Yay so and so..
Guys we're not signing a big name free agent. The plan should be simple:
1 -- Keep what we have. Splitter, Neal, Bonner. All valuable contributors for the right price. Blair is gone. T-Mac is gone.
2 -- Develop Cojo. Or scour the open market for a suitable backup PG with experience handling the rock in the playoffs. (Remember when we had TJ Ford? We need that)
3 -- Sign Manu to a decent contract and communicate to him that his role is diminished.
4 -- Give Kawhi Leonard more isolation plays and see what happens. After watching Dwyane Wade tear us apart with mid range/floaters/drives, why can't Kawhi do the same?
5 -- Pray that Timmy has another semi-renaissance season and hope he can still anchor a defense.
6 -- Draft another athletic swingman and see what happens. Who knows.. we might get lucky...
The answer is not in free agency except for our backup PG spot. We were one rebound away from the championship, there's no need to bring in someone to disrupt the system no matter how appealing.
Wesley Johnson to backup Kawhi Leonard
I know what you're saying and I'd be all for that if our guys were younger but we're talking about another grueling 82 game season with injuries and diminishment in certain areas. With the team we have we can get to the playoffs, Splitter is a decent regular season guy but unless he's getting a post game, increasing his rebound numbers or getting stronger than I don't see a reason to pay him anything more than peanuts on the dollar. Neal is fine at the 2 guard position but again unless he wants to take a discount I don't resign him, I'd cut bonner just to save on the cash.
I'd develop the heck out of Cojo that's fine, good investment because he is young and is still very moldable but they do need a PG who can handle the ball above all else, handle the ball and can pass.
Manu should take a 1.5 mil 1 year deal and play primarily off the bench as a SG with a better PG handling the rock.
I'm all for Kawhi getting the ball within the system, plays for him and opening the offense up to him, don't know if Pop will concede that this year but he should. He needs a go to move and he needs to work on hitting that 3.
Timmy is pretty consistent but unless we have someone who can actually spell him for periods of times or games so he can stay fresh than it's really pointless because we'll be back to the same thing in the playoffs depending on our crappy bigs to maintain leads when they can't.
Drafting of course would be ideal, and the spurs usually do a decent job every other year or so getting someone they can stash.. The draft picks they usually get that are Americans are small SGs so hopefully they actually try to go big this time, we need length.
The Spurs need to make a move though, they need to go after a big to set up this franchise for the future.
Let Gino walk is my opinion; he really cost the spurs everything if you ask me but i am not one to judge i suppose. Paul Milsap would be a sweet addition, but i don't see why Timmy would hate KG and also David west im sure is gonna be back with Indy, bring back core guys and make minor moves maybe a 'little splash' then draft well and whamo bring it on.
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