The only guys we have under contract after this season are: Aldridge Batum Lillard Matthews Leonard Jeffries Claver Freeland Barton Here is a list of all the free agents for this summer. http://www.hoopsworld.com/2013-nba-free-agents/ I think we should either look at adding a starting level shooting guard, or a small forward and moving Batum to guard. Here are some of the guys that stand out to me: JJ Reddick OJ Mayo Jarrett Jack Josh Smith We could sign Reddick or Mayo and bench Matthews, no problem. I think Reddick would fit right in, although he's getting on the old side. Mayo is a much more dynamic scorer, and fits our window, but has his attitude changed? Jack was a guy that I really wanted to get rid of back in the day, but I think he's grown a lot as a player and as a point guard. I think he'd be a great as a scorer off the bench. The question is how much he'd want. Josh Smith would be the home run for Olshey in my opinion. Sign him to a big deal, start him at small forward and move Batum to shooting guard. Lillard Batum Smith Aldridge Leonard That team would be crazy athletic.
Mayo would be a gamble. I think he will still require a big contract to steal him from Dallas, and this season could be an anomaly. Smith would require all our cap space, so if we could get Mayo and Jack for around 7 million each, that would be huge, but I'm not sure that could be done. Or Mayo for 8 million and Jack for 6 million.
Smoove + more development from Nic and Dame + a decent bench could make us a top 3 team in the West. Oh, and I don't like a Dame/Mayo combo. Too much duplicity in their ways of scoring.
Would you guys rather sign guys like jarrett Jack and carl landry? Or just go for a homerun like al jefferson or Paul millsap?
Would rather go jack/redick/resign hickson more then any other scenario. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2
I don't like the idea of Smith at SF at all. I do like the thought of Batum at SG, if we can find a SF, however.
I think with Lilliard, LA, Leonard, Matthews and Batum we have a plenty good starting lineup for the near future. I really like JJ as a backup big. Aside from that none of our players are more than marginal NBA level players at best. So I'd argue for 2 or 3 lesser players to add bench depth for any position.
If we got smith id want to play him at the three but only if we have two good 3p shooters in when he is in. Cant have him hoisting up threes or 18 footers Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2
Solid Core right there. Would really like those bottom three rookies to get minutes this year so that they can be legit second options next year.
I think Mayo will go for closer to 10 in the offseason. Jack and Redick make sense. I don't however think we will be able to keep Hickson, he is really raising his value. So getting a big to share time with Meyers is the second most important move behind a back up PG. third would be just more bench talent.
Agreed; Those three plus one of Claver/Barton/Freeland (after some big improvements) would round out the bench nicely (if Leonard starts for us next season).
Like the idea, but want no part of any Blazer re-treads. Andre Miller being the only exception. Or Juan Dixon
Why not? Jarrett Jack is a really good player and can play the 1 or 2 which would give us a nice little guard.rotation
Good thread. Thanks for initiating this, NB. Batum has been so effective at the three, why would we want to change that? How is Reddick's defense? Matthews has been great on defense and last I checked, he's like second in he league in three point percentage for players who have taken 40 or more threes (Mayo is first). I think Jack and Reddick off the bench is good. Start Leonard and suddenly, you have a great bench: Reddick, Jack, and Hickson. I don't think we have to make it more complicated than that. I think we have to worry about disturbing chemistry with Josh Smith. Would he be interested in being the 4th option, I don't think so. We don't need more starter level players. Just a few scorers off the bench. Jack/Reddick/Hickson solves that.
If we sign Jack and Redick and re-sign Hickson, then we'd just be a James Johnson or Jonas Jerebko away from having an all-JJ lineup.
I can't say any of them light my fire. My fave would be Josh Smith, but not to play at SF, and I still prefer Aldridge at PF. I want a center and a REAL backup PG (which means not Jack: he may have got better than when he was driving us crazy but you don't acquire court vision, you're born with it), and there aren't any of either. Maybe we can use our capspace to do lopsided trades.
I like Redick. Tony Allen? Marvin Williams. If you forget about the "Chris Paul/Deron Williams" stuff, and look at him as a 7th-man big, you can do a lot worse than toss somewhere close to a MLE at him.
