Pistons related Free Agency Thread

[Neptune]

Word is that the Nets offered Thomas a low ball two year 28mil deal with the last year being a 14mil team option. If thats the case, the Pistons might really be in the running to get him. We might have to add multiple 2nds with our TPE, but make it happen Langdon!

https://youtu.be/qUAAVjnMMEA?si=8qVCKGtTlOG2ISCH

[A_dub06]

Word is that the Nets offered Thomas a low ball two year 28mil deal with the last year being a 14mil team option. If thats the case, the Pistons might really be in the running to get him. We might have to add multiple 2nds with our TPE, but make it happen Langdon!

https://youtu.be/qUAAVjnMMEA?si=8qVCKGtTlOG2ISCH

Two seconds aren’t really going to do anything for the Nets though, and since they will have plenty of cap space making Thomas sign the QO and prove he’s worth still puts them in the drivers seat to re-sign him. We would need to give sweeter compensation to make that happen and not sure if more seconds are going to make it happen even tho would happily do it

[Kilo]

Forcing a player to ay for QO would piss the player off to no end and they would likely hold ill will against the team, so not so sure Nets would be in the driver's seat to re-sign him in such a case.

[bstein14]

Forcing a player to ay for QO would piss the player off to no end and they would likely hold ill will against the team, so not so sure Nets would be in the driver's seat to re-sign him in such a case.

Yes, we've had Greg Monroe in that position in the past, but he was a high draft pick so his QO was still a pretty night number. Duren QO is a bit less but Ivey will have a very high one being the 5th pick.

We also had KCP in a position where he was a RFA and SVG just let him go and went with someone else when KCP wanted $80 million instead of making another team go out and make him an offer we could possibly match. Overall we've botched it a few times it feels like. Greg Monroe actually did get a 3 year max deal from the Bucks.

[Canadafan]

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What if we bring him back later in the year after hes cleared of wrongdoing. Bird rights 7.2mil. Get Thomas with our TPE. And then before trade deadline we trade Ivey with Tobias or even better use Levert Thomas Robinson to get Markkanen

Duren Stew Reed
MARKKANEN Tobias
Ausar Holland
Ivey Beasley
Cade Sasser

[A_dub06]

Forcing a player to ay for QO would piss the player off to no end and they would likely hold ill will against the team, so not so sure Nets would be in the driver's seat to re-sign him in such a case.

They will still have the most cap space in the league though so regardless of him being pissed off or not, he’s going to sign for the most he possibly can which the Nets could always pay him a couple million on top of whatever offer comes in. How many teams realistically are going to be lining up to throw more money at Thomas than what the Nets would be able to offer?

Thomas is a player I believe has all the tools to be an effective player, he just needs to be in a better system on an actual team with more direction which we could easily provide. If he’s even remotely available in a S&T at the cost of a couple 2nds I’ll be upset if we don’t at least try

[SuperBad]

I agree if that’s what he got offered we should go after him, use a couple seconds or Sasser as sweetener. That’s elite depth at every position but the four, it gives tons of options to upgrade on the market with all the depth, to find a 4, or the 2nd fiddle could need.