MasterIchiro wrote:Skybox wrote:MasterIchiro wrote:
We have sold off vets and tightened spending so we could bottom out this year (and retain our 1st owed the Spurs, now Kings).
So while it appears we are sellers, I believe we are done selling.
We sit on a surplus of draft capital and matching contracts.
The logical next step is buying. We will be attaching draft capital for upgrades, to the following contracts:
Nurkic
Josh Green
Grant Williams
Josh Okogie
Trade proposals that ignore this blueprint for roster management are out of touch with the direction of the team in terms of buying/selling.
I know it's absurd to conceive of the 2nd worst team in the NBA transitioning to buying, but that's what we will see.
We will fire a first year head coach before we start gutting the roster like this.
I hope to see proposals for Charlotte where we attach draft capital to matching salaries for upgrades, instead of losing key players and arguing about their value. It's pointless to argue LaMelo's value when you have 7 surplus 1st round picks to build a team.
You left Mark Williams off your list…was that on purpose? I didn’t get the LAL trade other than his health is worth the risk for LAL, who could win today if he kept it together for 3 months (but tough guy to count on for a rebuild). CHAs angry, but LAL clearly wanted it to work.
I wouldn't let that deal muddy the picture of this transition to buying.
The Hornets secured an overpay for Mark Williams.
What does an overpay for LaMelo look like?
Not this.
Let's try to match proposals with reports from Hornets fans about the direction of the team. We should have a better sense of our buying position than non-Hornets fans who couldn't even name the 7 surplus picks we have to build a team around our key players led by LaMelo.
Good luck with that angle (biased homers only) participating…not how it’s going to go on RealGM. We suffer from that on ORL board too…where Cole Anthony and a srp is routinely traded for prime Michael Jordan.