There's also the trade deadline next season if they come back with mostly the same team. Maybe they showcase some guys this year to move em' later. Who knows..
We won 67 games last year, and lost to a great OKC team. What it showed is they need another big guy up front to help with rebounding and banging down low. Also, it's not discussed because he had 2 great Games in 1 and 2, but Aldridge was playing with a dislocated pinky on his shooting hand, and that certainly didn't help in terms of fighting Adams/Kanter and scrapping.
We need another big guy. I personally don't think that guy is Gasol, but it seems like that could happen.
Impossible, per the CBA.
The meeting with Durant will be all about next summer, Riley-LMA style.
I will have to agree that Gasol would have made a difference in that series. Spurs will also need some more scoring at the wings.
Right now Spurs don't have a lot of flexibility considering we got Duncan and Diaw in place..
Duncan/Marjanovic/Gasol
Aldridge/Diaw/LJC
Leonard/Anderson/Bertans
Green/Ginobili/Simmons
Parker/Mills/Murray
That's 15 players already ... not including projects like Ndoye, Lalanne and old guys like West, Miller, Martin and Bonner that think they still have gas in the tank.
Similar to when room was created to sign LaMarcus Aldridge last July, the same steps would need to occur for the Spurs to create cap space for Durant.
However, with Tim Duncan opting in to his $6.3 million contract for next season, the Spurs' process to land Durant has become much more complicated than the path to clear cap space for Aldridge last summer.
The Spurs could create $26 million in cap space with these moves:
1. Renounce the cap holds of all free agents, including Manu Ginobili and Boban Marjanovic.
2. Release the $2 million cap holds of former first-round picks Livio Jean-Charles and Nikola Milutinov.
3. Trade Boris Diaw and Danny Green to a team with room.
4. Waive the contract of Jonathon Simmons.
Duncan could decide to retire, giving the Spurs additional cap relief, but the balancing act of cap space will become critical as San Antonio awaits his decision.
All-Stars Kawhi Leonard and Aldridge would join Durant to form a formidable trio.
The Spurs would only have their room mid-level and minimum salaries to fill needs at backup power forward and center.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/front-o...184021631.html
Or we can trade Patty and sign Milutinov and ljc
not expecting to sign durant but... if we did... we'd have two of the top 5 players in our starting lineup... it's mind blowing to think about.
if we wanted to play a small ball line up we could try murray/kawhi/bertans/durant/lma. would be wild.
Nevermind.Already posted.
No, Dwayne!
The Spurs should do whatever they need to do to get Dedmon on the team. Dude's much better than anyone else they could sign for the MLE.
Instead, the Spanish four time All-NBA selection has been solelySo San Antonio Opera has improved enough to lure Pau...interested in the San Antonio Spurs, where Gasol can take a very important 6th man role for the championship-chasing Spurs.
Duncan/Boban/Bonner
Aldridge/Diaw/Jean-Charles
Leonard/Fathead/Bertans
Green/Manu/Simmons
Parker/Mills/Murray
Dont get your hopes up folks. Pop and RC will probably walk into the KD meeting telling him that he'll average 19-21ppg, get rejected, and then they'll book vacation spots for mid May
this is ST. very few posters trust anything other than their own narcissistic takes and arm-chair coaching/managing."trust the process"
Dedmon is/was my #1 target for a cheap big, tbh..sucks that Orlando is still interested in him
Interesting as a stretch PF, but with Diaw returning plus Aldridge preferring the 4 (he will have to play some 5) there's not much of a need for him. If cap space is limited, the more pressing need is getting a penetrating guard who can pass. If he can be had at the minimum or for the room exception, then worth a look.
Orlando was awful defensively but his dRPM is a respectable 0.9.
Decent rebounder for his position (13.5 rebound rate - which is in the zip code of Green/Griffin, so average rebounders for their position, but well below the Love/Faried/Robinson freak numbers) and very solid TS% around 56-57%.
36% shooter from deep and a little better from outside of 10 feet, while a good finisher at the basket. Sure beats Ricky Rubio's awful shooting and from a big to boot.
Probably a fair comparison to Nicholson as they're on the same team. Dedmon had a very positive impact defensively for the Magic - actually gets them to a decent defensive team while he's on the floor. Lacks three point range but can hit from midrange (13 of 30 from there last season - small sample size, but not a total floor clogger).
Won't Magic match anything reasonable?
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Was going to say Dudley would be a solid pickup, but just came across him tweeting that a 1 year/$5 million deal wouldn't be good enough, so I imagine he's off the table
Andrew Nicholson was let go and is unrestricted. Decent name out there.
Was going to say Dudley would be a solid pickup, but just came across him tweeting that a 1 year/$5 million deal wouldn't be good enough, so I imagine he's off the table
Yeah Dudley is getting 4/40 this offseason most likely
It's tough to get a read on them. They traded O'Quinn for a song last year in large part to give Dedmon more minutes. So you'd think he's part of their plans. But they already have three other bigs of note in Vuc, Serge and Gordon. If they sign Mahinmi to a biggish deal like some suggest, they might not want to match an MLE-esque deal for their fifth big. Or they might be willing to make a trade for Mills, Simmons and/or Boban, picking up an asset for a guy they didn't want in their long-term plans anyway. Regardless, he's definitely my top target for the MLE or under -- especially if the starting bigs are taken care of some other way.
It's puzzling, because they buried him on the bench until March, where he only began playing again because Vucevic got hurt..
Yeah, they were giving his minutes to Jason Smith of all people.
Plus with a new regime in place, it either means Dedmon's stock has gone up within the organization (in which case he'd cost too much to trade for / offer sheet gets matched) or it's fallen ... Ibaka trade could be a signal of this ... which means he could be had at a very reasonable cost.
I know some on the board think an offseason without making a huge splash is a lost offseason, but shrewd moves could pay huge dividends in roster flexibility going forward.
They aren't winning it all w/the Porker/Fatty tandem.
Manu has been flamed out the past two postseasons despite being healthy & Tim is trending towards being a liability at this point of his career even against teams that play traditional bigs let alone small-ball. Unless Porker got moved there wasn't any realistic move they could have made this offseason that was going to elevate the team.
Bottom line is that Porker has basically handicapped the franchise & the team won't be a TRUE contender as long as he's the starter.
spurs need an athletic big.
don't work out lorbek, work out thomas robinson.
younger, more athletic, taller than boris and west. would take him over those two and even boban. can roll to the basket better than any of those. can roll better and finish stronger than splitter.
he opted outta a $1,050,961 player option for 2016-17, is an unrestricted free agent.
has played with lma in portland too.
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