coldfish wrote:nitetrain8603 wrote:Like I said before:
Rose
Mayo
Deng
Boozer/Gibson
Cousins
And you're sitting pretty.
That team might be worse than today's team. You are projecting a lot on cousins who simply isn't very good right now.
Anyways, I'm bored of being negative. Reality bites. I'm going to just throw out a team:
Rose $17.6M
Mayo $8M
Butler $1.1M
Love $14.7M
Noah $11.1M
+
Gibson $7.6M
That's 60.1M for your top 6 guys fielding a team I think could be a serious contender. In order to make it happen you would have the following guys and assets you have to trade:
Hamilton $5M non guaranteed
Kirk $3.5M expiring
Deng $14M expiring
Boozer 2 years $31M (think three way deal where he goes to Brooklyn and Hump's expiring goes somewhere)
Teauge
Rights to Mirotic
Rights to Cha pick
Bulls 2013 pick
Bulls 2014 pick
Bulls 2016 pick
How do you get it done?
My thoughts:
Boozer to Brooklyn, Hump and 2 Bulls picks to Dallas, Mayo to Chicago
Deng, Cha pick, Teague, Mirotic, Bulls pick to Min for Love
Cut Hamilton
Keep Hinrich
Check the stats, Cousins is having a better season than Noah and many consider this to be Noah's best season. People consider this to be a bad season for Cousins because of what's going on in Sacramento.
Season Age MP FG% 3P% FT% TRB AST STL BLK TOV PTS
2010-11 20 28.5 .430 .167 .687 8.6 2.5 1.0 0.8 3.3 14.1
2011-12 21 30.5 .448 .143 .702 11.0 1.6 1.5 1.2 2.7 18.1
2012-13 22 31.5 .454 .250 .747 10.0 2.9 1.6 0.6 3.1 17.4
Career 29.9 .443 .182 .709 9.8 2.3 1.3 0.9 3.0 16.3
Season Age MP FG% 3P% FT% TRB AST STL BLK TOV PTS
2007-08 22 20.7 .482 .000 .691 5.6 1.1 0.9 0.9 1.2 6.6
2008-09 23 24.2 .556 .000 .676 7.6 1.3 0.6 1.4 1.0 6.7
2009-10 24 30.1 .504 .744 11.0 2.1 0.5 1.6 1.8 10.7
2010-11 25 32.8 .525 .000 .739 10.4 2.2 1.0 1.5 1.9 11.7
2011-12 26 30.4 .508 .000 .748 9.8 2.5 0.6 1.4 1.4 10.2
2012-13 27 38.3 .460 .000 .757 11.3 4.3 1.3 2.1 2.8 11.8
Career 28.5 .504 .000 .727 9.0 2.1 0.8 1.4 1.6 9.3
Cousins will probably make as much as Noah on his next deal, but overall has better numbers. Get him with a great coach and increase that FG% a little, and it's no contest.