Moving on from the draft. Next stop: free agency.
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 7:54 am
I know everyone is still pretty upset about the draft and after only 4 hours of sleep I rushed back online to find pretty meaningless trades been made and not the roster reshaping we need!
However, don't resign yet, because with the number and quality of free agents available numerous teams never even pictured the draft as a way to improve their team. Maybe we could also make a splash in free agency?
First we need to check a couple of things:
- how much cap we have: It is my understanding that we have inked two rookies to guaranteed contracts, while taking on Webster and giving up Gomes. Can anyone who knows their salaries please enlighten us, how much cap room is left?
- who will be signed for sure: It seems that since we used neither in a pick - trade scenario, both Pekovic and Milicic will be coming (back). Has there been any word on what they might command? I vaguely remember Kahn saying Darko is very reasonable. How much are they likely to command and how much does this leave us with?
- what positions are we still looking at:
PF: The majority of quality FAs this year seem to be PFs (Dirk, Bosh, Amar'e, Boozer, Lee). With Love and Jefferson both still here, I think we can safely say we do not need another PF.
C seems to be locked with Darko (for the next decade if rumors are to be believed)
PG is the position I am most comfortable about. I think we're set with Flynn / Sessions and Rubio in 2011.
SF is a position we've tied up in the draft. While we are far from being contender-quality at SF, I think it is safe to assume we wouldn't use our highest pick to play him off the bench behind someone like Gay, who would have to be seriously overpayed to come here in the first place.
SG seems to be our biggest weakness. We will not really be able to see if Corey has improved much or how Webster fares as the FA is already upon us in a week and if we chose to wait 2 out of 3 windows (draft, free agency, trades) for improving this team will have passed.
- which SGs are available as FAs:
Joe Johnson (easily the best (after DWade!), albeit a little old for a "up and coming" team)
Josh Childress (younger, but not sure about his contract situation in Europe)
Larry Hughes (didn't like him at CHA or CLE, but back in the day in WAS...)
Tmac (old, injury prone)
Ray Allen, Mike Miller (old, been there&done that)
These are the only names I found in my sleep deprived state, but I believe anything really exciting would have caught my eye.
So after an emotional draft night, do we explore our options in free agency or do we wait to do trades? What moves do you predict between now and 2010 NBA tip-off?
However, don't resign yet, because with the number and quality of free agents available numerous teams never even pictured the draft as a way to improve their team. Maybe we could also make a splash in free agency?
First we need to check a couple of things:
- how much cap we have: It is my understanding that we have inked two rookies to guaranteed contracts, while taking on Webster and giving up Gomes. Can anyone who knows their salaries please enlighten us, how much cap room is left?
- who will be signed for sure: It seems that since we used neither in a pick - trade scenario, both Pekovic and Milicic will be coming (back). Has there been any word on what they might command? I vaguely remember Kahn saying Darko is very reasonable. How much are they likely to command and how much does this leave us with?
- what positions are we still looking at:
PF: The majority of quality FAs this year seem to be PFs (Dirk, Bosh, Amar'e, Boozer, Lee). With Love and Jefferson both still here, I think we can safely say we do not need another PF.
C seems to be locked with Darko (for the next decade if rumors are to be believed)
PG is the position I am most comfortable about. I think we're set with Flynn / Sessions and Rubio in 2011.
SF is a position we've tied up in the draft. While we are far from being contender-quality at SF, I think it is safe to assume we wouldn't use our highest pick to play him off the bench behind someone like Gay, who would have to be seriously overpayed to come here in the first place.
SG seems to be our biggest weakness. We will not really be able to see if Corey has improved much or how Webster fares as the FA is already upon us in a week and if we chose to wait 2 out of 3 windows (draft, free agency, trades) for improving this team will have passed.
- which SGs are available as FAs:
Joe Johnson (easily the best (after DWade!), albeit a little old for a "up and coming" team)
Josh Childress (younger, but not sure about his contract situation in Europe)
Larry Hughes (didn't like him at CHA or CLE, but back in the day in WAS...)
Tmac (old, injury prone)
Ray Allen, Mike Miller (old, been there&done that)
These are the only names I found in my sleep deprived state, but I believe anything really exciting would have caught my eye.
So after an emotional draft night, do we explore our options in free agency or do we wait to do trades? What moves do you predict between now and 2010 NBA tip-off?