Post#1891 » by DOT » Thu Jun 13, 2019 12:38 am
DowNY wrote:K-DOT wrote:Like, okay, let's look at this in the next few years
Nobody really good is available in 2020. Maybe AD if he goes to free agency, but I doubt it, and I'm not betting he'd choose us. So we can't get a FA to pair with KD for 21
2021, KD comes back, and his team is a bunch of kids. Absolute best case scenario if he comes back completely the same player with no affects from the achilles, we're maybe, maybe a 43 win team, first round loss. Then, even if a top free agent wants to come, we have to make significant cuts to the youth we've been developing to fit them around KD's cap hold. And now KD is entering the season at 33, and even assuming the injury didn't affect him, he's gonna start declining at some rate. So if we look long term, we need to sign a top FA in 2021 or else we end up in a situation where KD's contract overlaps with the kids getting new deals, which means we don't have any space to bolster the roster, and we end up middling until KD leaves and the kids come into their primes
There's nothing to gain by signing him at this point, even if he pulls a Nique
Mitch is signed for 3 years for cheap, RJ would be on a rookie deal still.
Frank might be gone. We don’t know what progression Knox & DSJr will have. We don’t know who we drafting next year.
Frank and DSJ will have to be gone if we want a max FA in 2021. Both will have cap holds of 15 mil. And Mitch will have to be re-signed that year too, because if we pick up his 4th year, he becomes an unrestricted free agent
We have less flexibility than you think, and again, this is assuming KD doesn't drop off at all
BaF Lakers:
Darius Garland/Cory Joseph
Klay Thompson/Shaedon Sharpe
Keldon Johnson/De'Andre Hunter
Evan Mobley/Tari Eason
Nic Claxton/Draymond Green
Bench: Leonard Miller, Jett Howard, Markquis Nowell, Kennedy Chandler, Day'Ron Sharpe