Who are your ideal free agent targets for Indy next summer?

[Indy2thaWindy]

DeAndre Jordan

[Canucklehead]

horford just signed an extension.

[8305]

The more I see of Hansbrough and McRoberts the less concerned I am about this position. If you assume we let both Ford, Dunleavy and Foster walk (which is what I expect at this point) our need could be a combo guard and a backup center. The center could be a 12 min/night guy. Hopefully that wouldn't cost much. The best combo guard I can see on the market would be Rodney Stucky. He's restricted so the odds would be pretty long.

[aquatic92]

I want to see how the draft shapes up next summer before I would really push for a player. Excluding us getting a 4 from the draft, I'd start with Jeff Green as i posted earlier. I dont know how people can say with straight faces that they are fine with Tyler and Mcbob when we specifically set ourselves up to sign another key piece for our team this summer, not resign em for cheap.

Josh Smith is intriguing because the article said they'd make him available at midseason, we could in theory maximize the value of those expirings in making a move for him, but Atlanta is a top 4 team in the East with him. Depends which way they want to go, considering their position now is highly unlikely to change the way they are now. I think Miami, Orlando, and Boston are more than just 1 seed above Atlanta. When you think about, he'd be a really nice fit for our team, assuming we could then resign him.

plus, he committed to IU years back, before he went pro.

[Grang33r]

I would love to see Greg Oden here. I mean, i would be assuming he would come at a pretty fair and cheap price. I doubt he'd demand too much money given all of his injury problems. And if somehow, even by a miracle, he remains healthy, he has the potential of being one of the top backup centers in the NBA. He's a local kid who the crowd would fall in love with and support him as he tries to get his NBA career back on track.

When he plays, he's efficient.

[joe.linnen]

Roster as of now:

SF:Granger/Posey/George
PF:McRoberts/Hansbrough
C:Hibbert/Foster/Jones
SG:Dunleavy/Rush/Jones/Stephenson
PG:Collison/Ford/Price

Roster after this season:

SF:Granger/Posey/George
PF:Hasbrough
C:Hibbert
SG:Jones/Rush/Stephenson
PG:Collison/Price

players that I would bring back:

McRobets
Dunleavy
Foster

SF:Granger/Posey/George
PF:Hasbrough/McRoberts
C:Hibbert/Foster
SG:Dunleavy/Jones/Rush/Stephenson
PG:Collison/Price

Playes that can be picked up:
Caron Butler
J.R. Smith
Samuel Dalembert
Carl Landry

[PR07]

I'd like to see someone who's young and can fit in with the rest of our young core. David West would be a nice fit, but he's right around the age where I'd start to get a little nervous that he's on the downside of his career. I'd lean toward either Landry or Jeff Green. Both seem to do a lot of the little things pretty well.

[Gremz]

Go all out for Landry!

[Miller4ever]

^^I'm down for that.

[jowglenn]

I think Landry is obviously a good fit, because he's a hard-worker type who has gotten where he is through sheer tenacity more than anything else. Any team would be better if they had Carl Landry. He doesn't exactly fit our need there (he's not a big time rebounder, he certainly can't play C at all) but he is one of those guys who just plain gets it done every night. I'm sure stats don't entirely measure his positive impact on the game.


So if we can get him, do it.

But need-based, I think there are some options that we haven't really considered. For example:

Tyson Chandler: Defense-minded, good rebounder, good shotblocker, can play C behind Hibbert as well as 10-15 mpg at PF next to Hibbert. Downside: has injury history, appears to have peaked about 3 years ago.

But at the right price I think he could be huge. He is consistently one of the best defensive big men in the game, but people don't see it because it doesn't involve many gaudy numbers. He was a big part of the Bobcat's defensive prowess last year.

Glen Davis He hasn't signed an extension with Boston, has he? He'll be UFA and while I'm sure Boston will push very hard to keep him, he might be growing tired of being a backup and ready to be a starter. Definitely an energy guy........ AHHHHHH NEVERMIND, forget this guy, he can't rebound worth nuthin.

Nene: Not a UFA yet, but if Melo leaves, Nene might exercise his ETO and get out of Denver while the getting is good. Definitely a C, but could probably play in a huge lineup next to Hibbert. His style would mesh very well with Hibbert, and they'd have an awesome low-post/high-post thing going that not many other teams could deal with. At all.


Brandan Wright An RFA, but given his injury history and the big contracts for David Lee and Biedrens, they might want to let him go and find some cheaper options. Sure, this guy's been injured, but it's not like it's multiple weird Oden-esque chronic things. If he can stay healthy this year, then maybe the first 2 years were a fluke. The guy has a lot of talent but hasn't exactly had a chance to put it into long-term practice.

Chuck Hayes Shane Battier once said, "Water covers 72% of the earth. Chuck Hayes covers everything else" in regards to Hayes's fantastic defense. The guy still has a job because he's great at the things he does - defense and rebounding. I think he'd be a perfect fit next to Hibbert, would do the dirty work every night. Big big fan, really think he should be a key target.

Craig Smith: You can just tell this guy brings it whenever he plays. Wouldn't really be starter quality, but hey, you could do a lot worse.

Nenad Krstic: Maybe a little too similar to Hibbert in skill types, but having 2 skilled 7 foot scorers is always an interesting prospect.

Andrei Kirilenko: would be interesting to see him as our PF, he'd bring a lot of the defense/intangibles type stuff we'd want, and could end up having a really great connection with Hibbert with his passing

[aquatic92]

I saw someone post J.R. Smith and I almost died. Talented, but an idiot.