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I am so happy and somewhat surprised that they did not go for the proverbial Band-Aid on a severed artery and try to land Kevin Love or Andrew Wiggins. I have been advocating for a full rebuild and next years draft is supposed to be phenomenal. Talent wise I think they are a bottom five team and I hope that with a few right moves, letting Kemba walk and literally just having MKG and Batum sit on the bench all year can make them even better/worse. Here is my suggestions for what they should do: Thank Kemba, build a statue, and let him go. Sign D-lo to a max contract and let him know in no uncertain terms that he can be “the man”. And embrace the youth movement.

Starting lineup:

PG: Deangelo Russell
SG: Dwayne Bacon
SF: Miles Bridges
PF: PJ Washington
C: Willy

A lot of good young talent with upside but they will be a bottom three or four team in the NBA which will allow them to add a very very good pick next year. Let’s embrace the tank and embrace the youth movement.

Pretty sure Russell's max contract is higher than the roughly $7 million we have in cap space.

Also, if you are trying to tank, why in the world are you trying to sign a 23 year old all-star?

can't sign anyone to a max except kemba, if he walks we still don't have real cap space

gundysmullet wrote:I am so happy and somewhat surprised that they did not go for the proverbial Band-Aid on a severed artery and try to land Kevin Love or Andrew Wiggins. I have been advocating for a full rebuild and next years draft is supposed to be phenomenal. Talent wise I think they are a bottom five team and I hope that with a few right moves, letting Kemba walk and literally just having MKG and Batum sit on the bench all year can make them even better/worse. Here is my suggestions for what they should do: Thank Kemba, build a statue, and let him go. Sign D-lo to a max contract and let him know in no uncertain terms that he can be “the man”. And embrace the youth movement.

Starting lineup:

PG: Deangelo Russell
SG: Dwayne Bacon
SF: Miles Bridges
PF: PJ Washington
C: Willy

A lot of good young talent with upside but they will be a bottom three or four team in the NBA which will allow them to add a very very good pick next year. Let’s embrace the tank and embrace the youth movement.

If Kemba leaves I'll join the bandwagon, but no reason to let an all-star walk out of the door if you can sign him to a non-supermax contract. We can always do that with an agreement from Kemba to trade him later. That way he gets the money he deserves and gets to play for a team with a better ceiling in the immediate future. That's what the Warriors are talking about doing with Durant.

Only max we can give is to Kemba anyway, moot point.

I don't think you know what tanking means. If you really wanted to tank, then you would not sign anyone, bench your best players (or tell them not to come back from an "injury") and sign Mike Dunlap or Sam Vincent to be your head coach.

I thought that if we let Kemba walk we would have enough money to sign D-Lo to a max deal.

_tijo_ wrote:Only max we can give is to Kemba anyway, moot point.

I don't think you know what tanking means. If you really wanted to tank, then you would not sign anyone, bench your best players (or tell them not to come back from an "injury") and sign Mike Dunlap or Sam Vincent to be your head coach.

I disagree. You can still “tank” & sign good young free agent. To me, tanking is playing all of your young, inexperienced players and letting them grow together organically, losing a ton of games and getting a really high draft pick. And repeating this process for two or three years. Like Atlanta is doing.

We actually played our best basketball with Bacon and Bridges starting.

Liver_Pooty wrote:We actually played our best basketball with Bacon and Bridges starting.

Yes, that is what I’m advocating for, plus PJ Washington at the four; that is actually probably the best young trio that the Hornets have had in I don’t know how long. Plus they won’t be good enough to win too many games, so they will be able to get a very high lottery ticket next year to add to the young, exciting court.