2023 Free Agency

Note30 · Post #881 » by **Note30** » Sat Jan 27, 2024 8:42 pm

Colbinii wrote:I like Hayward a lot more than Lowry. Hayward has a lot more positional size in the post-season.

I would argue Lowry is better positional insurance against injuries.

Folklore · Post #882 » by **Folklore** » Sat Jan 27, 2024 9:37 pm

We should have signed Kevin Porter Jr. already. Let it be known in the star tribune that he's not a monster and that he gave himself over to God then he wont get any boos. Everyone below Brown will never get real minutes here because our development sucks and they aren't that good. We need to get some real NBA players with upside.

Colbinii · Post #883 » by **Colbinii** » Sat Jan 27, 2024 9:40 pm

Note30 wrote:
Colbinii wrote:I like Hayward a lot more than Lowry. Hayward has a lot more positional size in the post-season.

I would argue Lowry is better positional insurance against injuries.

Sure, but to what degree? Hayward can play the 3 and 4 if injuries happen while Lowry is strictly a 1.

winforlose · Post #884 » by **winforlose** » Sat Jan 27, 2024 9:47 pm

If we move Kyle and Shake for Monte Morris and TPE, and Marcus Morris Sr, gets bought out/waived, Could we sign him to a 2 plus year deal?

Note30 · Post #885 » by **Note30** » Sat Jan 27, 2024 9:52 pm

Colbinii wrote:
Note30 wrote:
Colbinii wrote:I like Hayward a lot more than Lowry. Hayward has a lot more positional size in the post-season.

I would argue Lowry is better positional insurance against injuries.

Sure, but to what degree? Hayward can play the 3 and 4 if injuries happen while Lowry is strictly a 1.

We have plenty of 3s and 4s, we have only 1 PG.

Colbinii · Post #886 » by **Colbinii** » Sun Jan 28, 2024 12:08 am

Note30 wrote:
Colbinii wrote:
Note30 wrote:
I would argue Lowry is better positional insurance against injuries.

Sure, but to what degree? Hayward can play the 3 and 4 if injuries happen while Lowry is strictly a 1.

We have plenty of 3s and 4s, we have only 1 PG.

But Lowry isn't going to make up for the loss of Conley.

shrink · Post #887 » by **shrink** » Wed Jan 31, 2024 2:22 am

“Warriors Open to Trading Chris Paul.”

Step One of my treacherous path to get Chris Paul here has happened. Now we just need:

Step Two: Warriors trade Paul
Step Three: Paul’s new team decides to buy him out
Step Four: Paul doesn’t retire, and chooses to sign with MIN over LAL (where he has a home), or OKC (been there too).

winforlose · Post #888 » by **winforlose** » Wed Jan 31, 2024 2:51 am

shrink wrote:“Warriors Open to Trading Chris Paul.”

Step One of my treacherous path to get Chris Paul here has happened. Now we just need:

Step Two: Warriors trade Paul
Step Three: Paul’s new team decides to buy him out
Step Four: Paul doesn’t retire, and chooses to sign with MIN over LAL (where he has a home), or OKC (been there too).

Or we trade for Morris and don’t care about CP3. I could also see Lowry being our buyout guy if we had to pick.

BlacJacMac · Post #889 » by **BlacJacMac** » Wed Jan 31, 2024 6:40 am

Depending on Embiid’s injury, the odds of us signing Lowry may have just improved by a ton.

shrink · Post #890 » by **shrink** » Wed Feb 7, 2024 5:45 am

Our boy smitty with a great article on buy out candidates

https://www.spotrac.com/news/2024-nba-buyout-market-2160/

shrink · Post #891 » by **shrink** » Thu Feb 8, 2024 6:50 pm

Read on Twitter

Any interest? He’s been pretty bad.

BlacJacMac · Post #892 » by **BlacJacMac** » Thu Feb 8, 2024 7:01 pm

shrink wrote:

Read on Twitter

Any interest? He’s been pretty bad.

Detroit fans seem thrilled to finally be rid of him. I guess if he wants to play for Iowa, we could take a look...

Post #893 » by **Domejandro** » Thu Feb 8, 2024 7:13 pm

Read on Twitter

Neeva · Post #894 » by **Neeva** » Thu Feb 8, 2024 7:19 pm

shrink wrote:

Read on Twitter

Any interest? He’s been pretty bad.

His defense is pretty good , but he has never been coached to develop his offense. Tbh maybe for nothing, I’d take him over Wendell.

shangrila · Post #895 » by **shangrila** » Thu Feb 8, 2024 7:41 pm

Neeva wrote:
shrink wrote:

Read on Twitter

Any interest? He’s been pretty bad.

His defense is pretty good , but he has never been coached to develop his offense. Tbh maybe for nothing, I’d take him over Wendell.

Nah, he's an easy pass.

He sucks. These kinds of dumb reclamation projects are what we used to do when we were a terrible franchise. No need to revisit that kind of thinking.

shangrila · Post #896 » by **shangrila** » Thu Feb 8, 2024 7:43 pm

Domejandro wrote:

Read on Twitter

Career 36% from 3, currently at 30% from the year.

Would be an underwhelming pickup but honestly wouldn't be surprised if he was the guy.

shrink · Post #897 » by **shrink** » Thu Feb 8, 2024 8:10 pm

Spencer Dinwiddie might get bought out. With Monte Morris health questionable, I’d do that. And his previous salary was over the lux, so the top contenders can’t legally sign him.

Remember, the goal for a pick up is not even for a regular rotation player, otherwise you wouldn’t have seen many buy out candidates actually be traded. Dinwiddie has the chance to help us for the regular season.

wolves_89 · Post #898 » by **wolves_89** » Thu Feb 8, 2024 8:17 pm

I'm not seeing much in the way of shooters on the buyout market that are all that attractive. I'm wondering if Leonard Miller starts to push his way into some rotation minutes due to his ability to stretch the floor.

BlacJacMac · Post #899 » by **BlacJacMac** » Thu Feb 8, 2024 8:17 pm

shrink wrote:Spencer Dinwiddie might get bought out. With Monte Morris health questionable, I’d do that. And his previous salary was over the lux, so the top contenders can’t legally sign him.

Remember, the goal for a pick up is not even for a regular rotation player, otherwise you wouldn’t have seen many buy out candidates actually be traded. Dinwiddie has the chance to help us for the regular season.

You have to hope that his poor play this year is due to not being happy with the situation.

Hollinger: Spencer Dinwiddie also is on an expiring deal, but the size of it ($20.3 million) could make it difficult to complete a trade. He’s also been on a bizarre jag of unaggressiveness, one that at times borders on nonviolent protest, with just a 15 percent usage rate since Jan. 1 and averaging just nine points per game since then. For a guy who already had a bit of a reputation, this isn’t going to help his trade value.

wolves_89 · Post #900 » by **wolves_89** » Thu Feb 8, 2024 8:20 pm

BlacJacMac wrote:
shrink wrote:Spencer Dinwiddie might get bought out. With Monte Morris health questionable, I’d do that. And his previous salary was over the lux, so the top contenders can’t legally sign him.

Remember, the goal for a pick up is not even for a regular rotation player, otherwise you wouldn’t have seen many buy out candidates actually be traded. Dinwiddie has the chance to help us for the regular season.

You have to hope that his poor play this year is due to not being happy with the situation.

Hollinger: Spencer Dinwiddie also is on an expiring deal, but the size of it ($20.3 million) could make it difficult to complete a trade. He’s also been on a bizarre jag of unaggressiveness, one that at times borders on nonviolent protest, with just a 15 percent usage rate since Jan. 1 and averaging just nine points per game since then. For a guy who already had a bit of a reputation, this isn’t going to help his trade value.

I'm a little skeptical that the Wolves would have interest in Dinwiddie since Connelly and Finch seem to put a lot of stock in character and locker room fit.