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No...making your rival spend more and thereby reducing their ability to spend as much in tbe future isn't dumb...
Everyone's fellating LA for their 'incredible' FA season, although they just kept two of their players, lost Dennis Schroeder, added a guy who is worse in Gabe Vincent, and Taurean Prince. People might think Cam Reddish isn't a complete waste.
Phoenix is the team that has done extremely well filling their bench.
No...making your rival spend more and thereby reducing their ability to spend as much in tbe future isn't dumb...
There's five players I would have targeted, Scoot, Hood-Shifino(target Utah with the 16th pick), Bufkin, Hawkins and Cam although Scoot would have been almost impossible to trade for. I also would have drafted Andre Jackson with the 33rd pick.
But it's not what I would have done it's that the Spurs went into the draft thinking to being overly conservative and not really wanting to make a trade. The end result is they didn't make a trade up to grab one of the top PGs this year.
They'd have to sit everything out for the next week.
Maybe call up the FO and tell them how this brilliant idea of not being involved in the first, most important week of FA season just to mess around with some team to the west was the way to go. Tell them how it's more important to play a joke than it is to look out for your own team.
That’s at best a tertiary goal, and shouldn’t lead the way the organization runs itself in my view. Plus, the Lakers are in a two year time horizon anyway. By the time that poison pill part of the deal kicks in LeBron and even AD’s money may be off the books for them in any case. So what’s the point?
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Free agent Eric Gordon has agreed to a deal with the Phoenix Suns, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium. Massive get for the Suns.
Agree you don't make claims to make other teams pay more. you make claims on guys you really want.
Herro isn't Spurs material and can't defend PG's. With Trail Blazers not interested in him (if they were, Simons would become available) and the 76ers said to be unwilling to part with Maxey, Spurs only potential involvement in a Lillard trade could be as dumping ground for draft capital.
That's why I keep saying target Quickley. Even if Thibodeau, notorious for not playing small, is willing to off the bench, there's still the matter of an expensive extension looming for the former next off season, on a team where his role will always be suppressed because of Brunson.
Offer Graham, Osman, Stevens and draft capital for him and Fournier. Would add $2.4M, leaving I believe $3.2M to reach the floor to offer to some minimal veteran C.
Ah yes...deflecting and whining about calling the FO again huh...that's quite weak.. The fact is that they arent doing anything with their space so it doesn't matter if its tied up.... if that changes then your position will become logical...
The point is that we dont know what they'll do in two years, but we do know if they had to match theyd have roughly $25M less to do it with.... and its only tertiary if we actually have a plan to use our cap space this week elsewhere..
Again, which part of the noone wanted to trade up you don't understand?
After drafting Amen, Rockets tried hard to move up into low teens to get Whitmore, noone wanted to trade down. They got lucky that he fell all the way down to 20th.
We need a point guard who's projected to be an elite threat from deep. None of these guys are even good shooters.
Sure, it would've been nice to trade up, but the asking price was too high.
I’m with you - I think Phoenix has done a better job of filling out their depth than LA in terms of getting bang for their buck. For example: LA throwing $51MM at Rui looks terrible in comparison to Phoenix getting KBD for nearly the vet min.
The Reaves (your favorite player!) deal was great but aside from that I don’t really think the Lakers have gotten any major steals IMO.
I still don't get the idea that all the cap has to be spent the first day of free agency.
Who said it does? A better question might be (as it pertains to this discussion) is it going to be spent at all?
Bridges signed the qualifying offer to make him an unrestricted next offseason. Haven't seen much of him play in Charlotte. Don't know much about the off court stuff he was going through. Would he be a good pick up next year if his game hasn't drop off or does Sochan bring the same skills Bridges does?
^ I think a likely use of the cap space will be what we saw last year: signing and waiving many dudes they want to get a look at like the Robys, Stanley Johnsons, and Wisecamps of the world. All those guys were waived with their guaranteed money hitting the books.
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Free agent center Cody Zeller has agreed to a one-year, $3.1 million deal with the New Orleans Pelicans, his agent Sam Goldfeder of @excelbasketball tells ESPN.
Great— now send us Jonás
His value to us is producing more wins for Charlotte so the pick will convey.
Unless there's an actual compelling deal to be made, probably not. The window closed pretty quickly on the potential outright signings, so the Spurs shifted to absorbing deals with the space. There's not much reason to believe the absolute best deals can be made in the summer, so why do it?
Would you rather trade for Jonas or just sign Plumlee outright?
Its wasn't about getting the best deal, although that would have been great, it was about limiting you rivals options in the future.
And limiting your own at the same time?
Pass.
How are we limited?
Sign Plums. While Jonas is the better player, it’s not enough of a gap to warrant trading a FRP for him (assuming that’s what it would cost), especially with only 1 year left on his deal. If he could somehow be had for multiple SRP’s though, I’d gladly do that.
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