How would you fill out the roster?

[MGrand15]

Love doesn't make sense. He's not durable - he's on a crazy contract too. He hasn't played meaningful ball in years. If we're willing to take on a contract like that, we might as well pursue Harrison Barnes. My guess is these rumors are coming from the Nets just kicking the tires on possibly getting him for essentially nothing. Giving up Dinwiddie, Shamet, Jordan, Tyler Johnson is basically nothing on-court wise.

[Claud]

Pass on KLove. 33 years old that has 31m, and 28m left guaranteed in his contract.

Fit wise I actually think someone like KLove would be perfect but we already have 3 huge contracts and we need to have flexibility.

McGee on the other hand would be great. A Direct Fro replacement since they have the same exact role only JaVale is more experienced. Could be a great pickup for us. Obviously would have preferred to keep the fro but that's another story.

I hope the Marksman can workout his magic and get us a good deal for a defensive/rebounding C like McGee. Our defense and rebounding is really suffering with DJ/Perry as our bigs. Not nearly enough.

[MrDollarBills]

Absolutely not.

[CalamityX12]

Devil's advocate.

How are we worse with Love then Harris? How does it make our D worse? how does it make our O worse?

For me, Harris as our SF, maybe best true SF, is the one guy left with high IQ on the floor, who can slash n cut in the offense. One of best 3pt shooters in league who 100% works well off of the scary 3. He hustles, he moves, he gets after it as much as he can from his position.

Love is a PF whose more of a stretch. I don't think we need that. We need athletic big more than a floor spacer. But if Harris is gone, then love maybe replaces the outside shooting however we lose the hustle and motion that Harris gives us.

Add Love, we're doubling back down to lack of speed and athleticism. We're slow footed already.

Also losing Harris knocks our SF depth. Thats important considering harden is more backcourt in our offense

love isnt a super athlete. be he is at least as quick as harris and more active. especially defensively.

you dont lose shooting, you gain rebounding. if you need hustle there are better options then both of them.

love isnt a guy who sleeps in the corner.

You can find rebounding n hustle without losing Joe.

You move Joe you lose at the SF position. We can maintain the SF contributions as well as beef up PF

[Hello Brooklyn]

Love isn't necessarily worse than Harris but he makes WAY more money, is far more injury prone and would cost assets.

There is no point in making a move just to make a move.

Love also doesn't really fit with our lineup anyway. We would probably have to play him at the 5, which means he will be responsible for our interior defense. Disaster!

Easier to get way with having Harris on the perimeter.

We can also always move Harris if we want to which would never be the case with Love due to his contract.

[DarkXaero]

I feel like one **** reporter (Jason Dumas) made up a report that we're trying to get Love, and all of a sudden we're actually taking it seriously. I see absolutely zero reason for us to even consider Kevin Love. While it's always nice to have a big who can stretch the floor at an above average floor, that is all Love provides (when healthy). He doesn't make us better in any other way. We already saw how Love underperformed when he was the third option, how is it going to be when Love is 4th option?

Even if it was an option, I'd rather keep Joe who is at the very least far more durable, and an easily more efficient scoring option who fits better. If we're considering trading Joe Harris down the line, something like Clint Capela makes far more sense.

[3pt_chucker]

Love would be a disaster trade on multiple levels. Feels like a fake rumor. McGee makes much more sense.

[MGrand15]

I wonder if any of these rumors mean we're finally ready to move on from DeAndre Jordan.

I figured the locker room politics would change quickly once Kyrie and KD had to actually play with him everyday. Id be surprised if we straight up trade him though.

[ecuhus1981]

I wonder if any of these rumors mean we're finally ready to move on from DeAndre Jordan.

Ding ding ding, correct!

I think that Kyrie and Kevin wanted to play with DJ, wanted to win a ring with him. Having played with him, I think they see that is difficult to shore up our defense with him starting, we have no depth behind him and his minutes do not scale up anymore. We all know that Durant can play the 5 in a pinch, but as much as I've loved his comeback tour this season, the eye test tells me that he would rather play the 3 than the 4, and wants to be used at the 5 as little as possible. Love allows that, as a starting PF who can soak up C minutes as well.

I would hate to lose Spencer, since he's done so much for Brooklyn and I think he'll be ready by May. But, if we can move him and DJ for Love and McGee without any additional picks, I would take a long look.

[Prokorov]

For me, Harris as our SF, maybe best true SF, is the one guy left with high IQ on the floor, who can slash n cut in the offense. One of best 3pt shooters in league who 100% works well off of the scary 3. He hustles, he moves, he gets after it as much as he can from his position.

Love is a PF whose more of a stretch. I don't think we need that. We need athletic big more than a floor spacer. But if Harris is gone, then love maybe replaces the outside shooting however we lose the hustle and motion that Harris gives us.

Add Love, we're doubling back down to lack of speed and athleticism. We're slow footed already.

Also losing Harris knocks our SF depth. Thats important considering harden is more backcourt in our offense

love isnt a super athlete. be he is at least as quick as harris and more active. especially defensively.

you dont lose shooting, you gain rebounding. if you need hustle there are better options then both of them.

love isnt a guy who sleeps in the corner.

You can find rebounding n hustle without losing Joe.

You move Joe you lose at the SF position. We can maintain the SF contributions as well as beef up PF

I agree. as i menitoned above, id prefer to just add mcgee and some scrap heap wing defenders. but if we did move him, i think we would certainly be as good and probably better.

[Prokorov]

I feel like one **** reporter (Jason Dumas) made up a report that we're trying to get Love, and all of a sudden we're actually taking it seriously. I see absolutely zero reason for us to even consider Kevin Love. While it's always nice to have a big who can stretch the floor at an above average floor, that is all Love provides (when healthy). He doesn't make us better in any other way. We already saw how Love underperformed when he was the third option, how is it going to be when Love is 4th option?

Even if it was an option, I'd rather keep Joe who is at the very least far more durable, and an easily more efficient scoring option who fits better. If we're considering trading Joe Harris down the line, something like Clint Capela makes far more sense.

im not sure how you can say love doesnt make us better in any other way when he is an outstanding rebounder and we are one of the worst rebounding teams.

[Prokorov]

I wonder if any of these rumors mean we're finally ready to move on from DeAndre Jordan.

Ding ding ding, correct!

I think that Kyrie and Kevin wanted to play with DJ, wanted to win a ring with him. Having played with him, I think they see that is difficult to shore up our defense with him starting, we have no depth behind him and his minutes do not scale up anymore. We all know that Durant can play the 5 in a pinch, but as much as I've loved his comeback tour this season, the eye test tells me that he would rather play the 3 than the 4, and wants to be used at the 5 as little as possible. Love allows that, as a starting PF who can soak up C minutes as well.

I would hate to lose Spencer, since he's done so much for Brooklyn and I think he'll be ready by May. But, if we can move him and DJ for Love and McGee without any additional picks, I would take a long look.

I feel like Jordan has played pretty well with harden here, on both ends. did a good job vs giannis and mitch robinson. i think at this point with DJ he just isnt a 30 mpg player. but he can give you 20 good minutes for sure.

[DarkXaero]

I feel like one **** reporter (Jason Dumas) made up a report that we're trying to get Love, and all of a sudden we're actually taking it seriously. I see absolutely zero reason for us to even consider Kevin Love. While it's always nice to have a big who can stretch the floor at an above average floor, that is all Love provides (when healthy). He doesn't make us better in any other way. We already saw how Love underperformed when he was the third option, how is it going to be when Love is 4th option?

Even if it was an option, I'd rather keep Joe who is at the very least far more durable, and an easily more efficient scoring option who fits better. If we're considering trading Joe Harris down the line, something like Clint Capela makes far more sense.

im not sure how you can say love doesnt make us better in any other way when he is an outstanding rebounder and we are one of the worst rebounding teams.

His rebounding is not what it used to be in his prime. His rebounding rate has been in decline. Deandre Jordan has also been an "outstanding rebounder" over his career, and we see what it is now.

[DarkXaero]

With rumors of Drummond buyout possibility, and guys like Ariza also potentially becoming available, I think it might be in our best interest to hold the DPE and MLE for now. If guys like that become buyout candidates, then we would be in a position to offer them significantly more money than anyone else, if we hold on to our exceptions. I genuinely believe that we could have a really good buyout market this year, with the amount of guys in final year situations where they can be bought out. I think Drummond is still a very long shot, but you never know.

We've signed Pelle for now, let's see if he can buy us some time with decent mins off the bench when he becomes available.

[Hello Brooklyn]

With rumors of Drummond buyout possibility, and guys like Ariza also potentially becoming available, I think it might be in our best interest to hold the DPE and MLE for now. If guys like that become buyout candidates, then we would be in a position to offer them significantly more money than anyone else, if we hold on to our exceptions. I genuinely believe that we could have a really good buyout market this year, with the amount of guys in final year situations where they can be bought out. I think Drummond is still a very long shot, but you never know.

We've signed Pelle for now, let's see if he can buy us some time with decent mins off the bench when he becomes available.

It makes sense for the Cavs to get rid of Drummond to get Allen as much burn as possible.

And it seems unlikely to impossible for anyone to take that contract.

I agree if its even a possibility we should wait to see if hes available. He would fix the majority of our problems.

But maybe the Cavs want to keep him as a backup rather than just giving him away. Who knows.

[MrDollarBills]

The idea is to get another center to pair with Jordan, not to trade Jordan out for McGee and end up with Reggie Perry still as our primary back up.

[TheNetsFan]

Love is a Center. That being said, a deal for Love would be Cleveland looking to dump his contract, and we'd be looking for at least one first back, plus they have to take back Jordan's contract. It doesn't seem realistic.

[3pt_chucker]

Watching McGee play vs the Lakers tonight and he'd 100% be a great signing for us. Hopefully Marks can work something out.

[Karate Diop]

McGee is a small bandaid but might be the best we can do...

[Shark]

I don't think we'll be asking for anything ground breaking from McGee. Just needs to take up Reggie's minutes. You play Jordan for 20-25, McGee 15-20, and have Green close out the game as the small ball 5. That's it.