Neil Olshi**y's Summer

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  1. HailBlazers

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    He used the word Major once. I've read through it three times now, other than that one word it sounds pretty tempered to me. Not sure what everyone in here was expecting to happen. It sure seems teams are being cautious this off-season.
     
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    A couple of those guys are now Summer League Champs, don't you forget!
     
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    Two years in a row with that shit.
     
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    I expected him to add playoff tested players. They didn’t even have to be starters. So far his offseason has contradicted everything he claimed was a focus.

    But hey, A for effort!
     
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    It’s hard to know what he’s trying to do behind the scenes. It really is...
     
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    The only move that would make sense would be a CJ trade to balance out the roster. Something like CJ for Covington and Saric (don’t run it through trade machine, it was just an example) We’ve got enough guards to absorb losing CJ. I’d play Trent from day one without hesitating. Curry does a lot of the same things CJ did.

    But it’ll never happen because Days of our lives thinks he belongs in the same sentence as Dame.
     
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    With our cap situation, you expected it? He said he's "shifting" focus, "thinking", and "trying," while be "judicious." And you EXPECTED it? That's on you bro.
     
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    Lollll get the FUCK out of here, Neil.
     
    Scalma, Jul 19, 2018
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    He'd have to dump Aminu AND another player, Layman, Swanigan, etc. to get under. With nothing coming back. I think currently, Sacramento and Atlanta are the only teams that can fit that.
     
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    He is to blame for us being in that cap situation in the first place. Let's not lose sight of that.

    We all know we were handcuffed this offseason. Maybe instead of rehashing the need for vets and the trade exception in nearly every interview, he should have highlighted the fact that there's no one there we can actually get. But he probably didn't want to point his finger back at himself?
     
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    Atlanta won't be able to if they make this Melo trade.
     
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    Waiving-stretching Meyers and getting rid of Layman should do it
     
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    Nope, not quite. Then we'd have only Nurk, Collins, and Swanigan as big men too.
     
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    Lol exactly.

    But I wasn’t expecting him to be active just in free agency anyway. I assumed because they weren’t willing to trade CJ that they’d go “all in” meaning they’d use the TPEs.
     
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    I'm at $ 123,718,341 with the moves I made. That's about 15k below tax line. We'd be above tax if one of our guys hits an incentive however.
     
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    I think a couple of other teams have TPEs to fit Aminu. Layman shouldn’t be hard to dump.
     
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    You're forgetting we'd only have 13 guys and have to sign someone to have 14. There's no way to do that for $15k.
     
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    We'd only have 13 guys.
     
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    You’re forgetting the two way guys that we’ll eventually sign.
     
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    If that were the plan, or all along the plan of getting under the tax again, then they wouldn't have guaranteed Layman for the season.
    Stretching Meyers, and finding a taker for Layman saves us 7764053 this season.
     
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