bigfoot wrote:darealjuice wrote:Yeah I don’t get why we aren’t kicking the tires on whatever young talent is available. It seems like they’re looking for a backup guard based on their pursuit of McRae, but why not bring in a young big and see if they can beat out Diallo?
This is a huge offseason for us. Plenty of directions we can go with this. Free agency doesn’t have much high-end talent, but we weren’t getting that anyways. We should be able to fill out a solid bench and add a solid starting power forward if we don’t believe in the Oubre-Bridges pairing working full-time. The draft is the real wild card, I’m not crazy about anyone in our range and Jones doesn’t seem to interested in continuing to build through the draft with how young we are. I expect us to trade our pick, but I have no idea what that will look like.
Plenty of frustrations this season, but coming out somewhere around 35 wins would be good given the circumstances. This team might have been in the playoffs if Ayton wasn’t a bonehead.
I think pursuit of a guard is a top priority. Even more than a PF. Our offense looks so ugly when Rubio and Booker are off the floor when we have to rely on a two-man combo of Carter/Jerome/Okobo. We really need a near-starter-quality backup PG. That would be my call for a free agent acquisition this summer with our MLE. Keep Baynes/Saric/Frank/Carter and go after a nice PG.
I agree. I’d probably only spend money on one of Frank and Saric if we’re going to start Oubre and Bridges next year though, especially if we keep Baynes. I’d like to keep Carter too, but I wouldn’t be too surprised if he was considered expendable after a new bench guard signing with Jerome being one of their first round picks. Getting someone like Dragic, Clarkson, or FVV to come off the bench would be really nice for us.
