EvanZ wrote:SinceGatlingWasARookie wrote:They let Chris Paul walk. Podz becomes the back up point guard. We draft a point guard in the second round and park that point guard in Santa Cruz.
We sign a cheap 7 footer who can block shots but otherwise is a bad player. This guy becomes our 4th string center. We either keep Saric or replace him with another 3 point shooting center that is bad at defense.
They let Klay test free agency but end up resigning Klay for a pay cut.
That’s all.
Your biggest off-season hope is the fourth string center.
You never go off brand do you.
Salary cap kills us.
I may be wrong but I don’t think we can turn Chris Paul Moody and draft picks into DeJounte Murray this summer. I think Chris Paul as a tradeable expiring contract ended at the trade deadline. I could be wrong about that.
I don’t want to sign Klay for discount and then trade him. I don’t want to trade Wiggins. I don’t want to trade kuminga Curry or Draymond.
So I have nothing to trade but draft picks and Moody.
Moody plus draft picks can not get me an established good player because Moody’s salary is too low.
I will trade Moody and draft picks for the version of Moody that half of our board thinks Moody is. What young underpaid defensive stopper can I get for Moody and 2 1st round draft picks. Small ball would work better if I could trade Moody for a faster more tencious version of Moody.
If all I can afford with our salary cap is a 4th string player then my preffered position for the 4th string player is center. We have a smart center that sets screens and offensive rebounds. We have a 3 point shooting center. We have a fast center who can block shots. All 3 of our centers are undersized. A big center would be a 4th look.
Theree is no other position where we benefit from adding a borderline NBA level affordable 4th string center.
I am talking about adding somebody marginal who would be the biggest player on a small team.
My next best choice would be adding our fastest player on a slow team. Payton is probably our fastest player but I don’t think Payton is really al that fast. Payton may be fast by off guard standards but I do not think Payton is particularly quick by point guard standards. Payton looks fast when he makes a quick decision to go all in on a defensive gamble but I think that is the instant decisiveness that Payton has on gambles not actual speed.
If I want a defender that can hound a quick opposing point guard into giving up the ball I think I need ssomebody quicker than Payton. You can really screw up an opposing teams offense by getting the ball out of their point guard’s hands unless the team has a good secondary playmaker.
So dribble stopping super quick defensive 4th stream point guard to back up Curry Podz and Payton is my second desire after 4th string big center.
I just don’t dont think the salary cap allows us to get players better than Saric and Corey Joseph.
We can go after unproven young G-leaguers with higher upsides that might be bust waised roster spots.
Garuba can play in the NBA without being a disaster. Quinones and Santos have potential. I don’t think Robinson has much upside potential.
Do you think we can get an impact player without giving up any of Curry, Dray, Klay, Kuminga, and Wiggins. Our board hates Klay. Sign and trade Klay and 4 1st round picks for who?
Our team while small and slow has a somewhat flexible roster. Klay could drop dead without creating a glaring hole in our roster. Klay is not that efficient when forcing up shots but if I had to ask somebody other than Curry to force up shots I would want Klay to be the guy.Kuminga, Quinones and maybe Podz would not be much worse than Klay if forced to try to carry an offense by forcing up shots.
Warriors fleet of outside shooters is not very scary to defenses without Klay. But really I could take a very good player at any position back in exchange for Klay and 4 1st round picks.Teams won’t really want Klay. Just trading Klay to use his salary and trading Klay because our board hates Klay. The 4 1st round picks are the priceit costs to get a player who will be our 3rd best player. A plyer on the level of Draymond and Kuminga is going to cost 4 1st round picks and a matching salary.
I would rather keep Klay and Wiggins and trade Chris Paul as the matching salary but I think the option of trading Chris Paul as the matching salary ended at the trade deadline. If we extend Chris Paul we can trade Chris Paul but we will have to throw ina few million dollars and a5th 1st round pick because overpaid Chris Paul is a negative.
So here is the ambitious version: Chris Paul, Saric, Moody, and Payton and 30 million dollars and 5 1st round picks for DeJounte Murray, a 270 pound 7 footer that can block shots and shoot 3s, an ultra quick 6’ 1” defensive specialist, and an ultra quick 6’ 5” defensive spcialist. Neither defensive specialist have to be any good at offense. This probably needs to be a 4 team trade.