Offseason Team News/Updates

[Merc_Porto]

Toliver is back for 19-20 season?

[Worm Guts]

Toliver is back for 19-20 season?

He’s a free agent.

[PharmD]

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Last offseason nobody set foot in town until Teague at the end of September. Hopefully this means we'll see a much more cohesive team. No more ThibsTax.

[shangrila]

But while Gupta’s connection to Morey may have helped him get his foot in the door, he was also fortunate enough to work in an environment that was built on meritocracy. Emboldened by the open environment Morey and Hinkie created, Gupta, who became an expert on the ins and outs of the NBA’s Collective Bargaining Agreement while developing the trade machine at ESPN, began branching out, pitching trade ideas to Morey and Hinkie despite not having the job title most would deem necessary to be taken seriously.

One such instance was the buildup to the summer of 2010, the year of LeBron, when every team in the league was clearing cap space, convincing themselves that they had a real chance to sign James and turn their franchise around. The Rockets took the the road less traveled, using their cap space to capitalize on the rest of the league’s unrealistic optimism in order to gain additional youth and draft picks, such as Jordan Hill, a future 1st round draft pick, and the right to swap first round picks with the Knicks, pieces which would prove valuable as the team tried to rebound from the devastating injuries to Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady.

That trade, according to those involved with the Houston front office at the time, was the brainchild of Gupta. Over the years this would prove to be Gupta’s forte, even more so than the comfort level with statistics that got him in the door.

https://www.phillymag.com/news/2017/01/31/sachin-gupta-trades-sam-hinkie/

As a perpetual whiner and debbie-downer, I really hope people can join me in recognizing how formidable a front-office line-up of Gersson Rosas, Sachin Gupta, and Gianluca Pascucci is.... like top-tier levels of excellent. Gianluca is one of the best scouts in the league (played a HUGE role in Brooklyn drafting Rodions Kurucs), Gersson has experience at (effectively) every level and is very systems oriented, and Sachin Gupta is a genius at leveraging cap-space in positive ways. I am very excited about this squad.

I love your intro.

BTW, Gupta was announced that he would be joining us 2 weeks ago yet we've heard nothing more. Any ideas? The longer it goes it can't be good. Gupta is a very important piece to the puzzle.

I wonder if there are contract problems and Detroit doesn't want to let him go for a lateral move? Does Detroit want compensation to let him go?

I wouldn't worry about it. There was a sizable gap between Gianlucca's actual hiring and the tweets reporting on it too.

[minimus]

Last offseason nobody set foot in town until Teague at the end of September. Hopefully this means we'll see a much more cohesive team. No more ThibsTax.

"Who wants to DIE today?!"

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[minimus]

Interesting who will be back next season from this group: Mitch Creek, AT, Terrell, Deng, Rose. I would offer all of them non guaranteed min deals.

[wildvikeswolves]

Interesting who will be back next season from this group: Mitch Creek, AT, Terrell, Deng, Rose. I would offer all of them non guaranteed min deals.

Rose is the only one I don’t think will be back from that group. Maybe AT and Terrell leave, but I hope we keep AT forsure. Amazing team guy!

[Klomp]

Interesting who will be back next season from this group: Mitch Creek, AT, Terrell, Deng, Rose. I would offer all of them non guaranteed min deals.

I think Creek and maybe AT. On the others, I feel like we'll move on or they'll have more interest elsewhere.

[Nick K]

Interesting who will be back next season from this group: Mitch Creek, AT, Terrell, Deng, Rose. I would offer all of them non guaranteed min deals.

I think Creek and maybe AT. On the others, I feel like we'll move on or they'll have more interest elsewhere.

Of all those guys I'd love to have back Deng as he played so well when he had the chance, at a reduced deal of course.

I'm iffy on Tolliver and Creek. I'd love to have Rose back as a scorer off the bench but i think he'll demand too much and he is far too injury prone.

I'm high on KBD and Cam Reynolds. I'd like to see us give them every chance to succeed.

Now if we only had a PG who could create his own shot, shoot the 3 at a decent %, and finish at the basket, we'd be in business.

[shangrila]

Interesting who will be back next season from this group: Mitch Creek, AT, Terrell, Deng, Rose. I would offer all of them non guaranteed min deals.

I think Creek and maybe AT. On the others, I feel like we'll move on or they'll have more interest elsewhere.

I'd put Deng above either of those 2.

[Klomp]

Interesting who will be back next season from this group: Mitch Creek, AT, Terrell, Deng, Rose. I would offer all of them non guaranteed min deals.

I think Creek and maybe AT. On the others, I feel like we'll move on or they'll have more interest elsewhere.

I'd put Deng above either of those 2.

I wasn't saying who I'd want, but what I think will happen

[shangrila]

I think Creek and maybe AT. On the others, I feel like we'll move on or they'll have more interest elsewhere.

I'd put Deng above either of those 2.

I wasn't saying who I'd want, but what I think will happen

Uh, yeah, so was I. Deng has a better chance of coming back over either Tolliver or Creek.

[King Malta]

I'd put Deng above either of those 2.

I wasn't saying who I'd want, but what I think will happen

Uh, yeah, so was I. Deng has a better chance of coming back over either Tolliver or Creek.

No, Creek's coming back for sure.

Why are you so sure, I hear you ask. Well because if he's signed by an NBA team then he won't be playing for my Australian team, and it would be typical Wolves for them to do that to me.

[shangrila]

I wasn't saying who I'd want, but what I think will happen

Uh, yeah, so was I. Deng has a better chance of coming back over either Tolliver or Creek.

No, Creek's coming back for sure.

Why are you so sure, I hear you ask. Well because if he's signed by an NBA team then he won't be playing for my Australian team, and it would be typical Wolves for them to do that to me.

As a fellow Australian I'm not sure why you'd care. I sure as hell don't.

[King Malta]

Uh, yeah, so was I. Deng has a better chance of coming back over either Tolliver or Creek.

No, Creek's coming back for sure.

Why are you so sure, I hear you ask. Well because if he's signed by an NBA team then he won't be playing for my Australian team, and it would be typical Wolves for them to do that to me.

As a fellow Australian I'm not sure why you'd care. I sure as hell don't.

Im assuming this is a jab at the NBL. I follow my local sporting leagues as well as the overseas ones. I quite enjoy attending live sport regardless of reduced quality.

[shangrila]

No, Creek's coming back for sure.

Why are you so sure, I hear you ask. Well because if he's signed by an NBA team then he won't be playing for my Australian team, and it would be typical Wolves for them to do that to me.

As a fellow Australian I'm not sure why you'd care. I sure as hell don't.

Im assuming this is a jab at the NBL. I follow my local sporting leagues as well as the overseas ones. I quite enjoy attending live sport regardless of reduced quality.

Not really. I don't watch the NBL but don't feel any animosity towards it either. I thought you were talking about the international Oz team, which in hindsight you clearly weren't because what would an NBA contract have to do with him playing there?

So my bad.

[King Malta]

As a fellow Australian I'm not sure why you'd care. I sure as hell don't.

Im assuming this is a jab at the NBL. I follow my local sporting leagues as well as the overseas ones. I quite enjoy attending live sport regardless of reduced quality.

Not really. I don't watch the NBL but don't feel any animosity towards it either. I thought you were talking about the international Oz team, which in hindsight you clearly weren't because what would an NBA contract have to do with him playing there?

So my bad.

Haha no worries!

In all seriousness though I have a feeling we might offer him a minimum deal. He's spending a lot of time with the rest of the team during the off-season, perhaps we're going to give him a run in the Summer League and see how he performs.

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