codydaze wrote:LightTheBeam wrote:I know many on this board are excited about bringing Sasha over. I'm not sure what he really solves for this team. Im guessing defensively he would have been less playable than Lyles. I'd prefer to resign lyles over bring over Sasha and I think that's what it comes down to.
Naz reid is a great target. Weak side help defense, rebounding. It's not the sexy move, but seems like he fits what we need. Minnesota has Jaden, Kyle, Gobert, Towns, Prince, so I'm not sure they will tie up money their with back court needs.
Sign Naz
Trade Huerter, Holmes + picks for Holiday.
Resign Lyles
Fox/mitchell
Holiday/monk
Murray
Reid/Lyles
Sabonis
I think Vezenkov would bring a suped up version of Bjelica to this team as another sniper who can get himself open off ball and space the floor. I don't think I would move Huerter for Holiday either. He crapped the bed this series for sure but I think trading him for Holiday who said himself he's considering retirement at the end of his deal would be a mistake.
My ideal summer is bring back Lyles, bring over Sasha and sign Naz Reid (4/60?) and Jalen McDaniels (3/24?). We can probably get this done without moving off Holmes deal but hopefully we can still find a way to move off that deal.
Fox - Davion
Huerter - Monk - Ellis
Keegan - McDaniels - Kessler
Reid - Vezenkov
Sabonis - Lyles - Queta
Hope Queta develops into a piece that can play situational minutes if we need more size.
That would be awesome if he panned out. Brown seems to not like Lyles as the backup 5 though, which is why I'm thinking it's Lyles or Sasha.
Holiday is a little on the older side. But I think this team definitely needs another guard who can defend and create for themselves The better options like Bridges are probably not attainable. Adding reid is great, but our perimeter defense is equally bad. Klay, wiggins, curry all took turns running layup drills on huerter.
Jalen could be a good piece also. Wouldn't mind finding a way to grab him also.
To me this is the key year. Sabonis and Monk are free agents next year and will eat the rest of our cap space. We have 25 something million in space, we have huerter/Holmes to give us 25 million+ in contracts to trade. We have multiple 1sts we can include. I want to add a real difference maker. Naz is a great fit, he's gonna fill some of those holes, but he's not a needle mover by himself. Jalen is flash right now, hopefully he continues to improve but who knows. Sasha is entirely unknown. Tons of those euro guys look like Dirk overseas then come here and flop. I know our team is better now, but to me that kind of feels like a vlade offseason of adding bjelica, dedmond. On paper good fits, but not really great players.
You sign Naz, you sign Jalen, then you throw Huerter/Holmes/24/26 1st/28 1st and see what's the best you can get. Holiday is the mold, maybe not the right guy.
Would SA ever consider moving Vassell as they look for real stars? Probably not but I can dream.