Scoot McGroot wrote:djFan71 wrote:Scoot McGroot wrote:
The problem is, the massive gap means we simply can’t “just get to the next year”, as we’d have to deal (because of luxury tax) essentially 5 roster spots that would only be replaced with Hayward and vet minimums. We’d lose out on the ability to dump any salary (the only guys over vet min/rookie salaries would be the starting 5 and Doug McDermott). If he’d take a cheap extension the next summer, we’d already have thrown away an entire offseason of team building (trades and signings) to commit to enter a summer with two of our key 5 guys unrestricted free agents. It’s just not feasible.
I was assuming you'd be dumping McDermott and/or Leaf in the Hayward trade as well. But, yeah, I still don't think it's a good move for you guys. Did you see the Sabonis for OG/Powell idea in the other thread? Even if not that one per se, that's more the type of trades I'd look for on your end. Pick a center, get some young wing talent.
Yeah if we do that, it has to be a Turner/Lamb/Leaf for Hayward swap, which adds $3m or so to the books for Indy, and leaves us with only 10 guys u be we contract and almost $128m on The books. Filling out the final 5 spots, at just vet minimum signings would leave us over this years luxury tax. With the following roster:
Brogdon/McConnell/Sumner
Oladipo/AHoliday
Warren/McDermott
Hayward
Sabonis/Goga
And 5 vet minimums to fill all the rest of the roster, while still being over the tax. It’s just not realistic for Indy to fit in Hayward, especially if Boston wants to cut a couple million, too.
yeah, even though you said it like 6 times, I wasn't thinking about filling the roster spots, just the trade balance. 7th time's a charm, though. Thanks for the persistence, lol.
