smittybanton wrote:hookshot199 wrote:BullyKing wrote:
In my defense, I was posting at 4am after waking up in the middle of the night after drinking way too much earlier in the evening.
So it's beginning to look as if the Lakers will be able to unload Wagner, Bonga and Jones. And I wouldn't be shocked
if Davis waives his $4 mil trade kicker, creating a possibility to bring in a third max player. That's potentially bad if
Butler is on the Laker's "wish" list. On the other hand, we can still offer him a fifth year; the Laker's can't. The same
for Tobias. As for JJ, he really has value coming off the bench. I think there's a good chance we lose him. That may
or may not be bad. I don't know who's out there who could fill his instant-offense role. Maybe it will be Cam Johnson.
Hopefully, we'll do better at developing a bench during the season. I think we drafted well last June. If we have a
repeat performance on Thursday, then hopefully Hodges will replicate what the Spurs player development system.
And hopefully our new medical team will give us a better chance for Embiid to be healthy coming into the playoffs.
I hope that Brand and Harris have locks on Butler and Tobias. We'll find out, I guess.
i suspect that third max spot is reserved for kyrie irving. would be too much to ask for leonard and horford to go to the clippers, kyrie to diss the nets for the lakers, and for the nets and mavericks and the knicks to spend their loot on poaching the bucks free agents. my brother went to a bucks game in milwaukee last december and said the place was empty. they are less able to afford running it back than we are. fingers crossed.
Anything can happen, but of all the available max players, Irving would be the one I would wish upon
the Lakers. He doesn't play D. Their bench is going to be razer thin. And we'll see if his estrangement
from LeBron works. All this 1+1 talk is malarkey for a guy who had/has pins in his knee.
I'm not sure how successful a team can be with seven minimum contract players and two starters who
don't play D.
I hope we don't get blindsided. I do believe we'll have to pay both Butler and Tobias more than we had
hoped. But that's the nature of things.
Let's hope we draft another Shamet, perhaps two, with our three picks. And I still like both Scott and
Ennis. They'll probably be out of our price range.
Re Milwaukee: Giannis has to improve his shooting. He's got four more years under his belt than Simmons.
And Bledsoe is trick or treat. If they lose part of their bench, especially Lopez, they won't be as good.
I wouldn't be averse to flipping for Ilyasova for Jonathan Simmons. Would love to pick up Connaughton
since he's redundant with Brogdon almost surely coming back.
But until everybody's signed, it's pins and needles.
