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Seeing as how this is a weak draft and a fairly weak free agent class too, why not put it off a year basically? Pull a Cuban and sign a bunch of one year deals to try and get his main goal.

So what is our main goal? Truthfully I don't know, I don't think anyone does, but here goes

Hire McMillan

Let everyone except Bynum walk, sign Willy to close a small one year deal

As well a sign Chris Kaman, Chauncey and Mike Dunleavy to one year deals

Then sign Corey Brewer to a 3 year deal.

Draft Caldwell Pope(try to trade down a few spots for him) and then Myck Kabongo and Ryan Kelly

Run with
Knight/Willy
Caldwell-Pope/Middleton
Brewer/Middleton
Moose/Kelly
AD/Kaman

At the very least it will be fun to watch and when CV and Stuck expire the year after we'll be set to go crazy

No cap space after 2013. The $$$ you save from Stuckey/CV will be given to Monroe.

Warspite wrote:No cap space after 2013. The $$$ you save from Stuckey/CV will be given to Monroe.

Yes, but topic creator reserves the cap space from this summer as well.

Additionally, there's no guarantee Monroe doesn't try to push his way out. The writing is already on the wall.

Not sure how watching a young team go through another lottery season will be fun to watch, and I don't see what's so weak about this FA class when you have 2 top 5 players as UFAs. If you don't think we have any chance at Paul, then why would we have any chance at the big FAs next year?

This plan sounds like basically a clone of 2013, just with McMillan babysitting for a year instead of Frank. TankWithNate instead of TankWithFrank. I think if thats what the Pistons wanted to do, they would've just kept Frank as a lame duck for another year.

Time to start moving forward. This team has been at a standstill since 2009. Last thing they need is to spend another year in freeze mode.

Goldtop wrote:This plan sounds like basically a clone of 2013, just with McMillan babysitting for a year instead of Frank. TankWithNate instead of TankWithFrank. I think if thats what the Pistons wanted to do, they would've just kept Frank as a lame duck for another year.

With a new coach you can try to sell the "we are truly changing" motto to the fans, just like the Bobcats plan.

The ideal plan IMO, unless you can land Paul or Dwight which is unlikely, is keeping everyone, Charlie V and Stuckey included, get a good FA only if he makes sense going forward and comes for the cheap, someone like Milsap?
Otherwise give Maxiell a hefty 1 year deal and make Calderon a Nick Collison type of contract, 12-3-3, see how the youngings develop and give a few months to Monroe-Drummond playing big minutes together to decide if it makes sense keeping both, if not trade Monroe in february for intersting picks + other prospects.

Basically stay put and keep flexibility, you are still a couple steps away from being a competitve team unless you get a franchise changer either in FA or the draft.

Did the guy just compared us to the LoLCats, said we should keep Stuckey and CV, thinks we gonna get MiLsap cheap and at the top of every hyperbole he wrote he want us to trade Monroe at the deadline for minor pieces?

I feel stupid for reading it...

vege wrote:Did the guy just compared us to the LoLCats, said we should keep Stuckey and CV, thinks we gonna get MiLsap cheap and at the top of every hyperbole he wrote he want us to trade Monroe at the deadline for minor pieces?

I feel stupid for reading it...

I'm glad I wasn't the only one confused by that post.

I think he basically said we should be following the Bobcats model for success.