WeekapaugGroove wrote:Few notes on the recent posts.
Sure I'd love Saric back as a backup 5, I agree on that. Depends on the cost obviously but I can't see him having a super robust market.
I've been rooting for okobo and still believe he's talented but Carter is simply the better option now and if he can be brought back cheap I'm cool with that and Okobo is definitely on the bubble.
The booker leaving thing. With any player it's a complex situation with some things a team can control and some they can not. Guys all stay or leave for unique reasons, we've seen guys leave very good teams. Best to really broach the subject seriously in the summer of 22, he'll be early extension eligible and with 2 years left on his deal he'll have some power to ask out but still a high trade value. Figure it out then.
The Chriss, Bender, JJ thing every time they have a decent game. It's easy to say just keep all young guys and be patient but the reality is you always have to make some choices on guys because at a certain point they clog up your cap The three would have been around 21 mil combined this season and if you add in TJ you're looking at 33ish mil. Plus playing time, there comes a time by the end of a rookie deal where you either need to play or get rid of dudes. Bender and Chriss are fun little reclomation projects on minimum deals now but that's not the case if you have them on the final year of a lotto pick rookie scale. Memphis didn't pick up Jacksons option so he'll be a UFA this summer, I bet nobody pays him the 9mil he was set to earn on the 4th year of his rookie deal.
The projects that are easier to be patient with are the Leaque, Okobo, even Diallo types who are young and super cheap basically just costing you a roster spot. Plus being later picks there isn't the pressure to actually play them if they aren't ready.
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I like keeping Lecque and Diallo, but I think we should move on from Okobo. I would have no problem bringing Bender back for I think he could do what Saric does for us. I am getting more and more intrigued with going after Valentine. I don't know who mentioned him a month back, but I was wanting to trade for him ever since he was mentioned. I think he would be a good combo guard off the bench.
I think the Chriss drafting is the hardest pill to swallow, for it cost us Bogdan and multiple picks. I really don't care if he has a decent game every once in a while, he just doesn't seem to have the IQ needed to be a solid role player. Even though TJ would have cost us money this season, we should have received a bigger return for him. It really came down to the poor managerial choices of trading for Tyler, and not stretching Anderson. We would have been close to being able to keep Warren with smarter cap moves.
