The 2013 free agency thread.

[Liver_Pooty]

Unless someone offers of something nice for Gordons expiring next year I say we just keep him and let him expire next season. We have substantial salary room this year, and next year his salary alone would give us substantial room. Two seasons in a row with a nice amount of room for a solid FA signing or two on top of what will inevitably be two straight top 5 picks is what this team needs.

Sounds like the perfect slow rebuild to me.

Hopefully this is what the almighty Cho is thinking. The way this team has been playing lately, and his choosing of Mike Dunlap over the likes of other more proven candidates have made me begin to doubt him a little.

[Eoghan]

This franchise will be a lot more appealing a destination for FAs once all the albatross contracts like Diop, Gordon, TYRUS, Haywood, and Williams are replaced with draft picks.

[Elden Payton]

Unless someone offers of something nice for Gordons expiring next year I say we just keep him and let him expire next season. We have substantial salary room this year, and next year his salary alone would give us substantial room. Two seasons in a row with a nice amount of room for a solid FA signing or two on top of what will inevitably be two straight top 5 picks is what this team needs.

Sounds like the perfect slow rebuild to me.

Hopefully this is what the almighty Cho is thinking. The way this team has been playing lately, and his choosing of Mike Dunlap over the likes of other more proven candidates have made me begin to doubt him a little.

I think at times we may give Cho a little too much credit in the fact that anything our franchise does that is good is Cho and everything bad we do is Higgins, and, in many regards fairly.

Point blank Cho is a numbers guy, and he would know more than anyone, truly, how bad we are.

Cho hired Dunlap simply because no matter who we got to coach us, we would suck, added onto the fact we didn't exactly have many interested candidates to begin with adds to a holy crap personnel HR situation.

Say we offered SVG 10m a year to coach us over a four year period, after two straight seasons of tanking the players would tune him out to the point where he has to go...20m straight out of MJ's bank account..not going to happen.

Dunlap is the scapegoat and no doubt he is the least paid coach in the league and his contract would have certain stipulations on it, if we decided to part ways with Dunlap in the offseason then it wouldn't cost us much and there are certain coaches like Gentry available who would most likely be interested in ANY head coaching gig because they have no other options; We may even get in early and give Dunlap another 20 games before we give a new coach ten at the end of the season.

Slow rebuild involves no panic moves and straight up common sense, one step at a time blueprint for success.

Cho and MJ sitting back smoking a stogie and watching the plan unfold.

[Elden Payton]

Tyler Honeycutt has been waived by the Rockets.

Worth a shot?

We are thin at SF.

[catch20two]

Tyler Honeycutt has been waived by the Rockets.

Worth a shot?

We are thin at SF.

I thought about this earlier but decided against it because the last thing we need is another reason to limit MKG's minutes, not to mention JT, during this so-called development year.

[Elden Payton]

Tyler Honeycutt has been waived by the Rockets.

Worth a shot?

We are thin at SF.

I thought about this earlier but decided against it because the last thing we need is another reason to limit MKG's minutes, not to mention JT, during this so-called development year.

I absolutely agree but I'm pretty sure at this point if Dunlap is not playing MKG or Taylor starter minutes then Honeycutt has no chance!

I can definitely understand us not going for big name free agents but we should take a chance on the Selby's and Honeycutt's of the world.

[catch20two]

Tyler Honeycutt has been waived by the Rockets.

Worth a shot?

We are thin at SF.

I thought about this earlier but decided against it because the last thing we need is another reason to limit MKG's minutes, not to mention JT, during this so-called development year.

I absolutely agree but I'm pretty sure at this point if Dunlap is not playing MKG or Taylor starter minutes then Honeycutt has no chance!

I can definitely understand us not going for big name free agents but we should take a chance on the Selby's and Honeycutt's of the world.

I wouldn't mind picking up Selby with our vacant 15th spot on the roster as a 3rd string PG to take into Summer League and training camp because we have been beyond lucky that neither Kemba or Sessions have been bit by the injury bug at least once this season (knock on wood). As far as Honeycutt I'm sure we'll be able to pick up a young talent like him if not better (CDR, Donte Greene, etc) as leftover fodder during free-agency this Summer.

[Elden Payton]

@Catch20two

Great points, in the grand scheme of things picking up Honeycutt is neither here nor there.

Selby on the other hand has serious talent imo, we need to pick him up off the waiver wire, I wouldn't even let him clear waivers.

As mentioned on the previous page Selby would be a very good backup SG for us, as is.

[JMAC3]

At this point I would just rather let Mullens and Henderson walk in free agency. If we were to offer both of them their QO that is 7.5 million alone and I am sure if they opted out they would cost even more.

I would rather try to spend that money on solid rotation big guys.

In no Particular order.

JJ Hickson- my number one target
Carl Landry- great option if he opts out of Warriors deal.
Dejuan Blair- should be relatively cheap and playing time is important to him.
Earl Clark- really came into his own and we should be able to pay him more than lakers.
Tiago Splitter- he will prolly just resign with spurs
Jason Maxiell- he could be a good role player and mentor to Biz.
Timofey Mozgov- Could start center for us
Zaza Pachulia- better then Haywood and Diop for sure
McRoberts- I like what he brings to table and think he would come back for cheap
Brandon Wright- maybe interesting

If we could get two of these guys that would do wonders to help our frontcourt even if we fail to sign Josh Smith, Jefferson, Pek, or Millsap type player. Depends on what we do in the draft and coaching situation as to who we would be the best fit.

[James Gatz]

Any chance we pick up our former 2nd round draft pick?

http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/22 ... d-By-Hawks

I know we have a slew of mediocre bigs but I'd rather give Tyler a chance than see Diop risking a heart attack.

[catch20two]

JEREMY TYLER WAIVED BY HAWKS!!!

We better pick him up off waivers ASAP. I wouldn't mind seeing what he has to offer as our backup C instead of Haywood and Diop for these last 20 something games of the season.

[chrbal]

I'd waiver claim Jeremy Tyler, waive Diop, and bring in Josh Selby. Worst case scenario we give two more young guys a shot while we finish off the season.

[HornetJail]

I'd waiver claim Jeremy Tyler, waive Diop, and bring in Josh Selby. Worst case scenario we give two more young guys a shot while we finish off the season.

Please

[Snidely FC]

Jeremy Tyler. Please sign. Please sign. Please sign.

[Elden Payton]

I'd waiver claim Jeremy Tyler, waive Diop, and bring in Josh Selby. Worst case scenario we give two more young guys a shot while we finish off the season.

*Starts praying.

[Elden Payton]

If we pick up Tyler then GSW paid us 3m for the privilege of getting him back nearly 2 seasons later.

[Diop]

If we pick up Tyler then GSW paid us 3m for the privilege of getting him back nearly 2 seasons later.

So we can stop complaining about that deal and how MJ was being a tight ass?

I wouldn't mind seeing us giving him a shot.

Although if there is any more Diop bashing I'm going to have to break out the ban hammer!

[Elden Payton]

If we pick up Tyler then GSW paid us 3m for the privilege of getting him back nearly 2 seasons later.

So we can stop complaining about that deal and how MJ was being a tight ass?

I wouldn't mind seeing us giving him a shot.

Although if there is any more Diop bashing I'm going to have to break out the ban hammer!

Yeah MJ so cheap he's paying BG 25m for a first round pick.

3m for Tyler was questionable at the time but I guess it can work out perfectly in the long run.

Yeah I agree about Diop, we cut Reggie if anyone.

[HornetJail]

Although if there is any more Diop bashing I'm going to have to break out the ban hammer!

*Immediately searches for Desagana Olajuwon*
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[Snidely FC]

The point is IF WE'RE GOING TO LOSE MISERABLY ANYWAY what use is it to give walking planks like Diop playing time? Might as well try out young ballaboostas like Tyler. Big, cheap, with upside. I thought he looked pretty decent when given playing time at GS last year. Kid just buried on the depth chart at GS and ATL.

Scuttlebutt was that we sold Tyler to GS so we could use the $2 mln to buy out Biz's Spain contract. If that's the case then he helped us get Biz here earlier and we could have him back for free? Come on, you gotta try this in our shoes.

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