2019nbachamps wrote:I don’t understand the camp here advocating for a wait and see approach. Our record is bad due to a roster imbalance and lack of depth, the East has gotten better, and we couldn’t get out of the 1st round last year. If anything, we have higher odds of regressing than getting better with this group. We need to balance out the roster and our salary structure. I expect this to be a busy deadline for us.
It's all about Scottie. It's not so much a wait and see approach, but rather a "manage the cap and supporting core intelligently until Scottie goes super saiyan" approach. I'd imagine the front office's approach is:
1. We have our future unguardable star in Scottie.
2. We have an elite #2 scoring option in Siakam.
3. We have a 3+D wing in OG.
4. We have our future big rotation in the pipeline (Precious and Koloko)
It'll all be coming out the oven in 2-3 years.
So in their minds, balancing the roster before that happens, for instance, by spending trade assets for a win-now big who'll take up cap space, might not make much sense in terms of cap management, especially when we have guys in the development pipeline that will provide a more cost effective solution precisely at the right time, when we can maximize our competitiveness with Scottie.
Scottie, Precious, OG, Koloko, and either Trent or the assets we get back for him and/or Fred will likely provide all the progression we need.
My only explanation for them not having balanced the roster with a win-now big, is because they feel it's already going to balanced when it needs to be.
