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Our Free Agents

Bibby: Sadly enough, it's time to say goodbye to Bibby; he's not what we need. I'd like to see him on the team, but not at the price he'll be asking for.
Marvin: Resign him to a 4 year contract for $32 million; 3rd year will be a team option, 4th year will be a player option.
Zaza: Re-up him for a similar contract: 4 years, $18 million. I'd be willing to stretch to $20 million, but that'd be the cap.
Flip: Similar to Bibby, I'd let Flip walk, unless he has a very low asking price. After this past season, I don't think that's likely.
Mario West: Re-up him for a long-term contract (5 years or so); I don't imagine he'd ask for that much. I'd be willing to sink $1.5-2 mil a season on Mario, and I think he'd find it fair. We'll give him a player option in the 2nd to last year to make it fair.
Rest: Dump

FA Signings
1. Sign Jason Kidd. He's everything that the Hawks would need. Rationale here: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=914512
2. Sign Birdman. Great energy player who can also perhaps pump up Smoove and Al to actually play like they're 22 all the time, rather than only on 3-on-1 fast breaks. The defensive presence doesn't hurt.
3. Make offers to Millsap, Big Baby, or Pops Mensa Bonsu. All of them could help the team, in one way or another. My preference based on the value we'd get for the salary asked would be Millsap, Bonsu, and Big Baby. Millsap's price is probably too high, but I think we could swing Big Baby and Pops.

Trades
1. Trade Joe Johnson and #19 pick for Nick Young, JaVale McGee, contracts (Oleg Pecherov, Mike James, Dominic McGuire), #5 pick.
2. Trade JaVale McGee, Randolph Morris, #49 pick for Yi Jianlian, #11 pick

Draft
#5 pick - Jonny Flynn or James Harden
#11 pick - DeMar DeRozen or Jonny Flynn, or best SG available

Ideally, we take Harden at 5, Flynn slips to 11, and we take him. More probably, Flynn is gone at 11, and we are left with the second tier of PGs (Jennings, Maynor, Teague). Alternately, we take Flynn at 5, and hope DeRozen falls to 11, but if that fails the dropoff in SG talent is pretty sizable. I'd opt with taking Flynn at 5, since our PG need for the future is most pressing.

Other
1. Hire an offensive coordinator
2. Have Mark Price lock Smoove in a gym practicing shooting
3. Waive Wizards contracts (Mike James & co)

2009-2010 Roster
PG: Jason Kidd/Jonny Flynn/Acie Law
SG: Nick Young/DeMar DeRozen/Mario West
SF: Marvin Williams/Mo Evans/Yi Jianlian
PF: Josh Smith/Glen Davis/Pops Mensah Bonsu
C: Al Horford/Chris Anderson/Zaza Pachulia

Thoughts?

this is horriable

Explain why it's "horriable?"

Your free agent signing aren't possible within cap rules. Buying out or waiving a player doesn't help with cap space unless their contract isn't guaranteed. You have 3 players being signed with the same MLE. Doesn't work that way.

The 1st trade (Joe for youth and filler) might actually be possible. I'll give you that one.
The 2nd trade (giving up JaVale McGee after acquiring him to get another high pick) is silly. C and PG are the hardest positions to fill. To trade a C to acquire a pick and realistically a flop in Yi is unwise even if it is to acquire that future PG because Flynn may not be there at 11.

Not sure Marvin would sign long term for 8M per. He can 7.35 next season on the QO and become an unrestricted free agent in the summer that everyone has been saving up for. If he has a good year he'd get paid big. The only way to sign Marvin long term is to offer him more than that to give him security to give up the potential big payday. 9M per might do it, but to be honest I'm not sure I want to invest long term in him if he doesn't have the drive to think he can earn more by proving himself next year.

In the end you have Jason Kidd horribly mismatched age wise with the rest of the squad. He'd be gone when the rest of core hits their prime. Not saying they shouldn't be considered veterans, but they're not even late 20s yet. As such I'm not sure why you'd need to sign him.

You still wind up undersized at C. Other than those issues your final roster has a lot of talent and likely would be very good in about 3 years.

The fa signings are impossibly. Kidd would take the full mle, leaving nothing for birdman or your other guys,