louc1970 wrote:What I have noticed is no piston fan has yet answered who are the top 3 FAs they would want to sign and how much it will take to get them.
That's because it has little to nothing to do with the proposed trade? This isn't a free agency thread (though you're trying to get us to trade for unrestricted free agents for some reason ....).
louc1970 wrote:I am always open to any discussion. And as I have said multiple times, maybe the trade idea is a bad one (for certain posters). But no Detroit fan has provided a solution to get that team competitive.
It feels like you're trying to say "If you don't like my awful trade proposal, you need to come up with an immediate solution to make a 14 win team competitive."
That's likely *not* going to happen via free agency this year, bottom line. So we could go down the rabbit hole of other free agency options, but nothing's going to suddenly turn us into a contender. We need a *lot* of things to fall into place for that and even then it's not going to be a one year process. Suffice to say, we're not buying our way out of this mess.
We *might* be able to swing some trades here and there to start building something. Trading for an UFA isn't the path, though. I think Stew needs to either be part of our core or be part of a package for a star. He's one of the very very few players on our team that contributes on both sides of the ball. Grimes, if he can rediscover his three ball, might be about the only other one! So, yeah, not the types of players we're going to eagerly move on from at all.
Tobias probably isn't a top 10 free agency target for me. I don't hate the idea of him at around $10 million 1-1 with a team option for the second part. $20 million for him is crazy, imo, and I'd be a hard pass.
Some free agents I'd have some interest in for Detroit (since you asked):
Kyle Anderson (RFA but Minny's got a lot of money on the cap), Pat Beverly, Nic Claxton, Fontecchio (should be able to bring him back at a reasonable number), Gary Harris, Hartenstein, Derrick Jones Jr., Tyus Jones, Naji Marshall, Doug McDermott, Malik Monk, Royce O'Neale, Dario Saric, and Lamar Stevens. I imagine once player and team options get declined, there'll be some others.
Biggest way we're likely to improve, though, is through smart trades, draft picks, and internal player improvement, which will not be a one off-season process, and which won't involve trading young 3 and D role players for aging role players entering unrestricted free agency.
