MrSparkle wrote:Well, if I were the GM, I'd:
1. Fire Fred.
2. Let Niko and MCW walk.
3. Shop Valentine and Lopez (sick of slow feet).
4. Offer a $10m/3y deal to Felicio, and $14m/3 to Lauvergne.
-Agree with 2-3.5 (Don't need to see Lauvergne back).
-I have never been a Fred guy (I love Thibs) but I can't judge him off of the crap roster the FO gave him. this roster is terrible.
I would...
Pick up Rondo
Hope Wade opts out (wont happen)
Let Niko and MCW walk
Shop Rolo, Grant, payne and Valentine (Whatever guys you can't move start on your bench).
They will have somewhere around 30 Mill to spend if they can shop Rolo and 1 of those guards. Maybe even a bit more actually.
Draft Allen/Patton at 16.
Go get a solid back up PG through trade
Go after the not so big but still somewhat big fish in FA.. (CP3/Heyward/Blake/Steph/Lowery/ect. all won't be coming here. That means they should be looking at Millsap/Bosh/Gallo/Ibaka who is my personal fav of this group and a great fit next to Butler)
That would leave the roster at...
PG- Rondo (14 mil)
SG- Dwade (23.8 mil)
SF- Jimmy Butler (18.6 mil)
PF- Serge Ibaka (I would guess he gets a 3 year plus 1 at around 80 Mill. 27 years old, so that's helping him. So thats 20 Mil per)
C- Cristiano Felecio (Guessing he gets 12mil/3 so theres 4 mil)
Back up PG through trade (We will say 7 mil)
Isaiah Canaan - (1.5 mil)
Bobby Portis - (1.5 Mil)
Lets say we keep Cam Payne - (2 Mil)
Paul Zipser (1.3 mil)
Jerian Grant (1.7 mil)
Pick 16 - Rotation big/Hopeful starter down the road (Allen/Patton) (2 mil)
pick 38 (.7 mil)
The salery cap is set to be around 102 mil - This roster puts you at around 98, So we are cutting it close. Could get a few scrub FA's to round out the roster. Hopefully my estimate on ibaka is correct. The new FA numbers have me in shock, maybe he gets more in this market? Mozgoc got 64/4, Kanter got 70/4, Byumbo got 70/4. Ibaka has more value than all of those 3 but how much more?
Some Pgs we could add through trade would be..
Corey Joseph (7.4 mil per)
Jerryd Bayless (9 per)
Ishmeal Smith (6 per)
Ramon Sessions (6.1 per)
Langston Galloway (5.3 per)
Obviously, not a lot of great options, but they are better than the guys we had this year when Rondo went down.
At first glance, is that roster a contender? No, probably not... but it would make things fun at least until 18' when we have a ton of cap coming off the books. That team is better than this years team. In the east the roster is probably a 4-6 seed. Obviously the glaring need is at center, but I think Felacio is improving and can be a serviceable one. Ibaka seems like a good big to put beside him and Bobby can take minutes at the 5.