atlantabbq99 wrote:PandaKidd wrote:Bazemore is GONE. BOOK IT. Hes going to get 10-13 million and I dont think the Hawks are going to go that route. The cap is increasing, but they have BIG BIG BIG contracts to sign coming up. Lets look:
Horford this year
Millsap the following year
Teague the following year
Thabo/Korver are coming up IIRC as well.
DS will demand a trade , theres no way he plays behind Teague. Ill almost bet if DS doesnt get the starting job by NEXT year, he will demand a trade. You can say you want 2 great PGs all you want, but that NEVER works out. See: Reggie Jackson, Bledsoe, DJ Augistin etc. They NEVER stick around, they go be the starter somewhere else.
So, I agree wholeheartedly that Bazemore is gone. Hes undersized, they need another SF and I didnt believe he was the SF of the future for this team. I think they may be seeing if THJ can take over the 2 guard spot eventually. if not hes a decent bench piece.
They should do everything in their power to resign Humphries and try and dump splitter IMO. Splitter is ALWAYS injured.
The problem is that core starts to look REALLY REALLY old with Millsap/Korver/Horford/Teague will be 28. You also have a plethora of bigs now if you can keep Humph.
So I would like to see:
Trade/Cut Muscala
Trade/Release Patterson
Trade Teague
Trade SPlitter
resign Humphries, bring over Tavares to play the Muscala role (limited minutes on the bench).
make a run at Harrison Barnes, do whatever it takes within reason to get him.
Bigs would be:
Humph,Tavares,Horford,Millsap,filler
Guards would be DS/ Filler/ THJ/Korver/Thabo/Barnes (realistically you could probably let one of Thabo/Korver go in trade if you got barnes).
anyways long way of saying theres a lot of expendable pieces on this team and Muscala/Patterson are the top 2 on my list. Then I would trade Teague because if you max out AH you need to get younger talent because your window is about 2 years with 2 30+ year old big men.
Spurs gave Danny Green 10 million per. Hawks giving Baz 9-10 million per is fair, I would go as high as 12 million. If somebody offers him more than 12 million, then ya, i agree that the Hawks should just look to Hardaway as the future SG. but to think that Baz is going to get offered more than 12 million per is just way way too delusional at this point.
SPURS are exceptions to the rule.