gambitx777 wrote:I think that there are ways to get us out of this cap strap and get us younger and a bit better for less money, but i don't think people will like them. There are hard choices to make and IDK if EG has the balls to do the potentially painful things he would have to do to get us out of his messes and make us actually better ( maybe not by much but anything is better).
You keep saying that, & you keep being wrong. Earlier today, or yesterday, you had us getting cap room by renouncing Bogdanovic!
Still, in a sense your are right. There's a way to get us under the cap & younger -- though definitely not better:
1. Let Otto walk for nothing.
2. Pick up Sheldon Mac's option.
3. Buy 4 more R2 picks this year to go w/ our #52.
4. Pick & keep all 5 R2 guys.
There you go, we're under the cap. Not by much, mind you, yet still.... But you might mean something more like:
1. Let Otto walk for nothing.
2. Pick up Sheldon Mac's option.
3. Pick someone @ #52, & sign him.
4. Sign Bogdanovic using Bird rights -- lets say for $5m ??
5. Use the MLE to sign a player.
6. Hmmm. That's it. The MLE guy took us over the cap. We can't add anyone -- & we only have 13 players, which is a problem since the minimum as of the coming season is 14 players. There must be a way to solve this problem: perhaps you are allowed to add a veteran minimum player. Or...?
Ah, no. Whew -- we can pick up Ochefu's option as well. We've made it to 14. But... this path doesn't get us younger, & it sure doesn't get us better either.
But, hey, these are just rules; I'm sure we'll hear how we can do it w/o obeying the rules!
