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basketballRob wrote:Cole has had a chance for 4 years and the playoffs last season. AB and Jett have moved ahead of him in the rotation. Playing Cole for some of Paolo minutes will only make us smaller.
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Likely most of the season with Weltman in chargeibraheim718 wrote:This will be a good opportunity for them to learn how to win as a team without Paolo.
More minutes now for TDS.
How many games will he be out 15-20?
ibraheim718 wrote:This will be a good opportunity for them to learn how to win as a team without Paolo.
More minutes now for TDS.
How many games will he be out 15-20?
Kent wrote:I keep saying it but this FO is all about the big picture and sustainability in ways no other NBA team has done it. Clearly, the Spurs and OKC come to mind but Weltman has a certain flavor about it.
To see it like they do, you have to zoom out and recognize there are positives even in the negatives.
Paolo will recover. Players will develop. The team will improve.
Our future is not all hanging on 24-25 and the season is going to have value no matter what.
If nothing else, things will be fresh for at least the next couple months. Let's try and loosen up and see where it takes us.
MasterGMer wrote:For the tanking advocate here, even if we land one of the Top picks in this year's deep draft, how are we going to afford the team including two Max extension with Paolo and Franz, plus 30M per year average for Suggs AND paying Wendell, JI and KCP. Also what about AB and Jett's rookie extension?
Simply put, let's say we have Cooper Flagg. He would be on rookie contract for the next 4 years. Then we trade away Franz or Paolo when the rookie max extension kicks in? While extending AB and Jett if they produce like we expect?
That is not going to work in the new CBA and Salary Cap.
Tanking kills the team's any momentum we have got for the last 2 years and the losing culture will be devastating for the team growth. It would be a nightmare and kill the credibility of Mosley's influence in the locker room or commanding the team.
Yes we land another star, all star or even super star. Sounds pretty, right? But the price for it WILL BE HUGE!
If we purely look at it in a team building perspective, I think trying to win as many games as we want and maximize any young assets or pieces we have will benefit the process plus team building also, in a cost preventive way.
We are still on track. And this year even with Paolo's injury, we can still be competitive because we have so much talent.
Trying to tank the whole season is disruptive and costly. Also let's grow internally and imo we are just one or two big trades away from contention
Rainwater wrote:Could someone confirm but is there a chance that Paolo just lost some money here. We all know that Paolo was going to get a max contract this offseason. But is there a stipulation of some sort that if he made a NBA all team he would have gotten a bigger max or am I incorrect with that assumption?
SHAQ32 wrote:Kent wrote:I keep saying it but this FO is all about the big picture and sustainability in ways no other NBA team has done it. Clearly, the Spurs and OKC come to mind but Weltman has a certain flavor about it.
To see it like they do, you have to zoom out and recognize there are positives even in the negatives.
Paolo will recover. Players will develop. The team will improve.
Our future is not all hanging on 24-25 and the season is going to have value no matter what.
If nothing else, things will be fresh for at least the next couple months. Let's try and loosen up and see where it takes us.
Yeah, let's be irrelevant for another dozen years; we'll be good come 2037.