I don't know what Pritchard plans to do. I'd like to see him go after Josh Childress and Ramon Sessions in free agency. I'd alternatively like to see him try to find a good player who generally fits the window of the big three in trade. Pritchard will have between $5 and $13 million of cap space, his own first-round pick and potentially another first round pick (that trade exception he acquired in the Diogu/Ruffin swap seems perfect for acquiring a first round draft pick) and Outlaw as trade assets before even looking at the "super six" (as MrJeyremmie dubbed them). I think he'll have a fair amount of options in the summer.
Well, Webster may still give that this year, or Batum may give that next season. I think once the initial anger subsides, many of you will sit back and realize that not making a trade isn't really that big of a deal.
You may also want to throw Webster in there as a trade asset if Batum continues to show he's a future productive player.
I think its a huge deal. we had an asset, didn't use it and all it did was open up some cap space this summer. I'm trying to find out what exactly our options are this summer, not some mysterious "let's have Tom Penn figure it out"...because Summer 09 was the target when we traded Zach, wasn't it?
I'm a big fan of Webster and hope he doesn't get traded. He's a cheap contract for multiple years to boot...
So is the summer of 2009 the very 'last' chance for KP to make a big splash and bring in someone to go with Roy/LMA/Oden? With cap space gone after the summer, I could see this being the last really big shot to land someone big.
In my opinion, that has already passed with this deadline. While we can fill in role players, I think we're going to have the same basic framework of the team.
Again though, that's not completely true. RLEC is 1/5 on the dollar out of the Blazer operating budget compared to taking in an equal contract.
Yeah, it seems like summer is. He can open up enough cap space to tempt a team to trade a pretty major player, if he chooses, and sweeten in with a first round pick or two. So summer still offers the chance for a major move. After this summer, he'll be constrained to MLE signings, drafting and trading talent-for-talent.
Perhaps. My feelings are that KP possibly covets Sessions, which is why he demanded him if we were going to take on Jefferson's deal. But beyond offering a restricted free agent a deal, I think consolidation trades are going to be of paramount importance this summer; there are just too many fair to middling players bunched up and too close together in age for there not to be major impacts on chemistry at some point.
Oden will hopefully be the biggest improvement on the roster next season regardless of who is brought in this summer.
yes, we will let his contract expire...leaving us a few mil under the cap. what we can do with that, I'm not sure...you advocate taking back a big contract.....but I just don't see reasonable scenarios for that to happen in which we get a player to fit in with our core other than being a sporadic roleplayer instead of an integral portion.
IMO we have a glut of small forwards on the team as it stands..none are outstanding at the moment. Rudy, Batum, Outlaw and Martell. I feel we are going to likely trade at a minimum 2 of those 4 this summer. The problem with the "obvious" (Outlaw and Martell) is that both are under very attractive contracts given their age and potential.
Up to $13 million under the cap. I have no idea what $13 million in freed money, first round draft picks and Webster can fetch in trade. Hopefully a pretty good player. I am not saying that Pritchard can make a big impact move, just that it is well within the realm of reasonable possibility.
You know that if the cap goes down, we might only be around 6 million (MLE) under the cap, in which case we'd have to give up our MLE but end up only having around MLE to offer.
