Sorry guys I didn’t get this done in time. Last week was the busiest week for me with signing day. I just wanted to do the write-up anyway and get your inputs because this was my first time. Again sorry I didn’t finish.
GM: Big_Mac79
Email: ryanwmcfadden @ yahoo.com
aim: ryanwmcfadden
STARTING 5:
DEPTH CHART:
Stuckey/Farmar/Chalmers/Boykins
Afflalo/Smith/Wilkins
Beasley/Morrow/Moon
Griffin/Collison/Powell
Noah/ Petro
SALARIES:
DRAFT PICKS:
CREDITS:
2012 1st from Orlando
2012 1st from Boston (Lotto protected)
2013 1st (LA Clips)
2014 1st (LA Clips)
2014 1st (Milwaukee)
DEBITS:
2012 first round draft pick to Oklahoma City
(top 10 2012 draft, top 10 2013, top 10 2014, top 10 2015 and unprotected 2016)
2012 2nd to Sacramento (Kaman trade)
2013 second round draft pick to Detroit
(top 55 protected in the 2013 Draft)
2014 second round draft pick to San Antonio
(top 55 protected in the 2014 Draft)
TRADED PLAYER EXCEPTIONS:
DRAFT RIGHTS HELD:
Sofocles Schortsianitis
Nikola Mirotic
TRANSACTIONS:
1. Chris Kaman and 2012 2nd for Carl Landry and Omri Casspi
2. Eric Gordon and Craig Smith for Michael Beasley and rights to Ricky Rubio
3. Carl Landry, Randy Foye, Ryan Gomes, Jarron Collins and Brian Cook for Vince Carter, Marcin Gortat, Daniel Orton and 2012 1st (Orlando)
4. Vince Carter, Michael Beasley, Marcin Gortat, Al-Faroq Aminu, Daniel Orton and 2011 1st (Minnesota) for Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Nate Robinson, Luke Harangody and Shaquille O'Neal
5. TPE and Rights to Ricky Rubio for Rodney Stuckey, Austin Daye, DaJuan Summers, 2011 1st (Dallas) and 2011 2nd (Denver)
6. Shaquille O'Neal and Nate Robinson for Shannon Brown, Ian Mahinmi and 2014 1st (Milwaukee)
7. Baron Davis and 2011 1st (Dallas) for Jason Maxiel and Drew Gooden
8. Jason Maxiel and 2011 1st (LAC) for Louis Williams
9. Paul Pierce, Dajuan Summers, Rasual Butler and Ian Mahinmi for Carmelo Anthony and Luke Walton
10. Drew Gooden and Lou Williams for Martell Webster, Darko Milicic and Luke Ridnour
11. Eric Bledsoe, Luke Walton and Darko Milicic for Kirk Hinrich, Johan Petro and Renaldo Balkman
12. Kevin Garnett and Willie Warren for Tyson Chandler and Anthony Parker
13. Kirk Hinrich, Luke Harangody and Mikki Moore for Francisco Garcia, Taj Gibson and Chris Wilcox
14. Carmelo Anthony, Tyson Chandler, Renaldo Balkman and Chris Wilcox for Joakim Noah, Jason Richardson, Sebastian Telfair and Craig Smith
15. Martell Webster and 3 2011 2nds for 2011 2nd (CHI)
16. Craig Smith for TPE
17. "Future Considerations" for Mikki Moore
18. Jason Richardson and Shannon Brown for Arron Afflalo, Marquis Daniels and Dan Gadzuric
19. Sebastian Telfair, Luke RIdnour, and Anthony Parker for Mario Chalmers, Matt Janning, Greg Buckner and Acie Law
20. Extended Qualifying Offers to Rodney Stuckey, Arron Afflalo, Deandre Jordan and Mario Chalmers
21. Renounced the rights of Dan Gadzuric, Marquis Daniels, Greg Buckner and Mikki Moore
22. Matched 4yr $28 million offer for Arron Afflalo
23. Taj Gibson and Austin Daye for S&T Thaddeus Young
24. Matched 4yr offer for Rodney Stuckey
25. Matched 4yr offer for DeAndre Jordan
26. Signed RFA Mario Chalmers
27. Signed UFAs JR Smith, Earl Boykins, Josh Powell. Jamario Moon, Damien Wilkins, Nick Collison
28. Released Matt Janning
29. Francisco Garcia, DeAndre Jordan and Thaddeus Young for Michael Beasley, Jordan Farmar and Anthony Morrow
Analysis
Goals
My goals were to shed Baron Davis and build a quality young team around Blake Griffin. I wanted find players that I felt would complement each other nicely.
Starters
C – Joakim Noah - 25 – 14.0 points (51.4%), 11.7 rebounds, 2.7 assists, 1.63 blocks and 1.17 steals
PF – Blake Griffin - 21 – 22.9 points (51.7%), 12.7 rebounds, 3.6 assists, .57 blocks and .67 steals
SF – Michael Beasley - 22 - 20 points (46.4%/38.5%), 5.6 rebounds, 2.0 assists, .8 blocks and .72 steals
SG – Arron Afflalo - 25 – 13 points (51.2% /44.9%), 3.9 rebounds, 2.5 assists, .53 blocks and .61 steals
PG – Rodney Stuckey - 21 – 15.3 points (42.7%/26.9%), 3.0 rebounds, 4.5 assists, .12 blocks and 1.07 steals
The starters complement each other quite nicely. Blake and Joakim would be perfect front court mates. Joakim will be the big defensive presence Blake needs next to him. Those two have great rebounding numbers also. Then Beasley will fit in well as he can help spread the floor and is a competent 3-point shooter. Afflalo will do what he does best, play solid defense and knock down 3’s. Stuckey is a good starting point guard. He meshes well with the others as he is a drive and pass PG. It helps that both wings can knock down 3’s consistently and they should get lots of open looks with Blake and Joakim drawing a lot of attention.
Key Bench
Point Guards: Farmar and Chalmers both take care of the ball and can hit open 3’s consistently (both over 35%)
Wings: Smith and Morrow both can hit the 3 (35% and 43% respectively). While defensively JR can provide a lot.
Bigs: Collison and Petro. Collison is the veteran on the team at 30. He plays great defense and gets rebounds. He is the glue guy every team needs. Petro can give some play well enough to sub at the 5 on a limited basis. His minutes can be limited because of Collison’s ability to defend both the 4 and 5.
Better than before?
I feel that it is a huge improvement on the original Clippers team. We got extremely younger while improving also. I improved the starters at PG, SF and C. I think the only starter spot we may have gotten weaker was SG. Overall the bench has improved and the team is deeper. I feel this team is perfectly matched and will be able to grow together as all the players are under control for the foreseeable future.
