gambitx777 wrote:NatP4 wrote:We can offer two 1sts, Oubre (another first round talent) and a starter and expiring contract in Gortat.
Then what? I suppose you can move mahinmi and smith to SA and hope to get Aldrige. You can't trust mahinmi as a starter. but at that point your are cap strapped and have no bench out side of morris tim and tomas. but that starting 5 is killer. Hope Mac and tomas and tim can hold it down and hope morris can play center, and hop that ochifu, devin robinson, Kenne and humpries are dimonds in the rough maybe talk a guy like Evans in with your mid level deal to play on a super team, and us your mini mid on another ring chaser, and bogs if he signs his QO is a decent enough value.
But while PG nd aldridge would be upgrades over morris and gortat, you need a back up center (which right now would be ochifu or humpries) morris upgrades the bench but again you loose kelley, if bogz stays that helps ish, tomas might move to SF that would help D but then you have mac and tim at point, so your bench is not that much worse than last year, but its certainly not better. its fixable but you would not have much to work with.
Now you would make a deal like Mahinmie and a first and second to philly for holmes. and clear enough cap space to fix that but you would not have aldrige and homles or morris. would be your starting center. But you could go and get evans and a couple of solid bench guys. and hope for the best.
.....then you have Paul George, they can use the MLE then to sign either another big or another guard. Personally, I would use it on a wing player.
They would be just fine with this going into next season:
Wall Sato Frazier
Beal Mac
George MLE options (gay, green, galo, Iggy)
Otto Morris
Mahinmi Smith MLE options (dedmon, Taj Gibson)
Morris can log minutes at C, Jason Smith can play a little PF during the regular season, Chris McCullough will surely get some regular season playing time. Sato can play some at the 3, Mac played some 3 last year, 3 guard lineups are always an option. They will be able to get a solid rotation player with the full MLE. Oubre was not relied upon as an actual rotation player last season and While it would be tough to replace Gortat, a duo of Mahinmi/Smith plus a free agent addition would suffice when you're adding Paul George.
Muscala, Zbo, Splitter are also out there. Patrick Patterson as well.
Obviously Blake Griffin, Paul Millsap, Serge Ibaka
if they really could get PG while keeping a trade asset, then I like your idea of dumping Mahinmi with a draft pick and pursuing one of those 3 guys, you gotta think Millsap and Ibaka could be had for less than 20 million per, but I can't see us having the assets to get a star player and dump a contract with nothing retained.
