2011 Player Options: To Be or not To Be (excercised)

[younggunsmn]

The deadline to excercise 3rd or 4th year options of rookie contracts I believe is Oct 31.
Here are the players the wolves have to make decisions on and their proposed salaries:

Michael Beasley (4th yr) $6,262,347
Kevin Love (4th) $4,609,701
Jonny Flynn (3rd) $3,414,720
Kosta Koufos (4th) $2,203,792
Wayne Ellington (3rd) $1,154,040

The first 3 are obvious no-brainers, and probably Ellington too.
Personally I think we should excercise Koufos's option too.
He's been pretty decent so far, and decent young 7-footers are hard to come by, even as bench fodder.

Our only restricted free agent will be Corey Brewer.
To retain RFA rights on him we will have give him a Qualifying Offer of $4,966,356.
Personally I think that is too much coin to pony up for a role player given our depth at that position and our best option might be to trade him at the deadline to a contender.

[Krapinsky]

We should exercise them all.

[karch34]

I think we exercise them all except Koufos. Seems like a good big to have, but for the cost I could see us figuring we could get a similar project with our picks from the Jefferson trade.

[Foye]

I think we exercise them all except Koufos. Seems like a good big to have, but for the cost I could see us figuring we could get a similar project with our picks from the Jefferson trade.

I'd be a bit disappointed if it turns out we traded Al Jefferson for role players.

[Esohny]

I think they're all no-brainers except for Koufos. But as of now, I'd be leaning towards exercising his option too.

I'd like to see more of him before deciding though.

[Krapinsky]

I think we exercise them all except Koufos. Seems like a good big to have, but for the cost I could see us figuring we could get a similar project with our picks from the Jefferson trade.

Seems like a wasted asset if you put it that way

[shrink]

We should exercise them all.

Agreed, and we should exorcize Brewer.