ryaningf wrote:Slartibartfast wrote:$3.5 mil in Crash sunk costs in a 2015 FA plan would be pretty painful without a capable SF on the roster. You'd be rolling the dice on getting a ready-to-go starting caliber SF from the draft or the free agency bargain bin.
I'm not crazy about the FA route, but if it's the one we're taking, dumping Wallace's last year has to be the priority. You want to be able to surround your star big target with proven players. Rondo/Bradley/Green is a playoff-caliber perimeter group. Rondo/recent draft pick/potential cheap free agent signing is not, unless you're really good/lucky.
Way too many variables to keep track of between now and then to start complaining about the potential hole at SF after we've surrounded Rondo with an All-Star big, but yeah I'm ready to roll the dice to replace Green if it means we've upgraded to Love, Gasol, Jordan, etc....
It all depends on whether we need to stretch Wallace to bring in vet All-Star player X. If so, you do it. If you've already moved Green and can bring in vet All-Star player X without stretching Wallace, then fine you play Wallace at SF and let him expire in a year. And if you've moved Green and still need to stretch Wallace to make the move to surround Rondo with talent, then you bite the bullet and use your MLE or use one of the 4 first rounders we have between now and summer 2015 on somebody who can man the SF. I mean, there are a million ways to fill Green's spot...
The problem with moving Green for cap relief is that it adds an extra variable when you want to have more constants in place to lock down a big fish free agent.
You only NEED to move 1 out of the 3 of AB/Green/Crash to free up money for a max slot, assuming AB's price (and Rondo's) doesn't get outrageous. Better to move the guy you know sucks than the guys you can rely on for starter-level production at the 2/3.
And there aren't a million good ways to fill Green's spot. If you're going with a Rondo/AB backcourt, you pretty much need a SF with shooting/scoring ability. Look at the guys we landed for that position when all we had to work with were minor exceptions and draft picks. After striking gold with Posey on the cheap, we ended up coping with the likes of Marquis Daniels, Michael Finley's corpse, JR Giddens and Bill Walker.
If free agency is our chosen route to add a star, I would much rather dump a variable like a pick to unload Wallace than replace a constant like Green with another variable.
