JMAC3 wrote:yosemiteben wrote:
(2) I'm not going to speculate who could we have signed because it's honestly not my job to figure that out. Obviously if we hadn't signed Hayward and he reupped with Boston than we wouldn't have known we could've gotten him, so we just don't have the data to understand who we could've gotten for what we paid Hayward. At the end of the day if the criteria was I get $40M in cap space per year and I can sign non-needle movers, there are very, very many different ways and guys I could have signed to accomplish that.
Hmmmm, not your job... obviously not your job, that is Mitch/MJ etc... but you are a MOD/poster on a basketball forum so I do not think it is outrageous that you would of given thought to the idea. I am not asking what would of exactly happened, but you don't want to speculate at all on a different avenue the team could of went when it came to spending its cap space and on which players???
It is not like you are going to get fired from your MOD position for tossing a few ideas out, not sure why you are so hesitant to post an actual idea or alternative plan. Instead you just continue to speak in these very generic responses "there are very, very many different ways and guys I could have signed to accomplish that".
Obviously do what you want, but it is a little like someone saying "Wow you overspent on that Audi, you could of gotten a much better deal for the money" ... Oh really which one should I have gone with? "IDK, but you made a bad decision".
Ok, here is a list of non- or barely-needle moving UFA wings that we could have signed for much less than Hayward yet much more than they actually signed for and wouldn't have required stretching Batum:
Jerami Grant
Joe Harris
Gallinari
KCP
Crowder
Hood
Connaughton
Rivers
Josh Jackson
Alec Burks
Bembry
Ellington
Hell, if we just want a vet that won't move the needle, there's this guy Nic Batum that we can have for one year and then we'll be gifted $27M in cap space.
Also, I've seen you post several times that Hayward's contract makes him the #34 paid player in the league, but that obviously leaves out Batum's stretch. If you base it on the total cap space he is occupying ($32M per year + Batum's $9M per year), he actually is in the top 5 in the league (based on this: https://www.spotrac.com/nba/rankings/cap-hit//). You cannot convince me that committing that much cap space is acceptable if we're assuming he won't get us any more wins. That is just crazy talk.
