Players under contract (13): Vince Carter, Devin Harris, Josh Boone, Marcus Williams, Sean Williams, Yi Jianlian, Bobby Simmons, Stromile Swift, Trenton Hassell, Maurice Ager, Brook Lopez, Ryan Anderson, Chris Douglas-Roberts. Player with Salary Protection (1): Keith Van Horn Restricted Free Agent (1): Nenad Krstic Unrestricted Free Agent (1): Boki Nachbar Likely LLE Signing (1) Jarvis Hayes Partially Guaranteed Contract: (1) Jaycee Carroll Based on a number of things, I believe Carroll has a small guarantee, probably on the scale of Robert Hite last season, around $20,000. Subtract KVH as of October 31 at the latest and assume Carroll doesnt make the team (no player with a partial guarantee has made NBA opening night roster in either of the last two years) and you're still at 15 with some obviously holes at shooting guard and possibly back up point guard. It argues for a trade.
Well, we have 2 untradeables in Hassel and Simmons VC, Harris, Yi and the rookies should be safe Boone and Sean are coveted and valuable young bigs. When packaged with a bigger contract (Stro)could bring you back a Camby or a Nocioni. And then we have Ager and Marcus who we cant seem to give away So I think Stro and Marcus are goners. And we might have to include one of Boone or Sean to make it work(probably Boone)
swifts expiring, kvhs contract and Krstic could bring back a nice guard with 2 years left on his contract (gotta see what works...) then we could free up a roster space to get Dooling...and have 14 spots...as we hardly ever have 15 guys on the roster. I also could see Ager getting waived..
PG: Harris, Williams SG: Carter, CDR, Ager SF: Simmons, Najera, Hayes, Hassell PF: Yi, Swat, Anderson C: Boone, Lopez, Swift 15 roster spots filled. Still have rights to Krstic, Nachbar and the KVH contract. What the hell are they plotting?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (NOMAM @ Jul 11 2008, 02:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Another SF role player?</div>
Sign Krstic -- the market is low for him right now because of the injury woes and lack of competition for him. We'd sign him for cheap. Resign Boki and use him, Boone, and KVH to get a sweet shooting spot-up guard who can defend. Our 3-point shooting is atrocious as currently constituted and Marcus Camby wouldn't help that. Some names of guards with 2 years left on their contracts: Quentin Richardson, Raja Bell, Jason Kapano, DeShawn Stevenson (no, I'm not taking into consideration whether these teams would want Boki and Boone). Bell especially can shoot and defend, and perhaps the Suns would like a 3 in Boki because Grant Hill is getting old, and Boone can support Amare and Shaq. No matter what transpires, it's obvious that defense will be a big question mark as training camp opens.
I'm confused. 13 + KVH+ Hayes + Najera. That's 16. But we can only have 15, right? Someone's gotta get cut (or we gotta get a trade done).
By no stretch of the imagination is Najera a SF. He was a PF and occasional C in Denver. Not to sound like a conspiracy guy, but by pitching Najera as a potential starting SF it seems to me D'Allesandro is just transcribing management spin so they don't have to answer questions about their now-too-crowded power rotation. After this move it seems obvious that one (or two) of our favorite young bigs is on the way out. Just a hunch.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ly_yng @ Jul 11 2008, 05:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I'm confused. 13 + KVH+ Hayes + Najera. That's 16. But we can only have 15, right? Someone's gotta get cut (or we gotta get a trade done).</div> KVH is only a partial guarantee. He and others are most likely being traded.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Thomas J @ Jul 11 2008, 05:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Sign Krstic -- the market is low for him right now because of the injury woes and lack of competition for him. We'd sign him for cheap. Resign Boki and use him, Boone, and KVH to get a sweet shooting spot-up guard who can defend. Our 3-point shooting is atrocious as currently constituted and Marcus Camby wouldn't help that. Some names of guards with 2 years left on their contracts: Quentin Richardson, Raja Bell, Jason Kapano, DeShawn Stevenson (no, I'm not taking into consideration whether these teams would want Boki and Boone). Bell especially can shoot and defend, and perhaps the Suns would like a 3 in Boki because Grant Hill is getting old, and Boone can support Amare and Shaq. No matter what transpires, it's obvious that defense will be a big question mark as training camp opens.</div> You sure bout DeShawn i mean Lebrons not to high on him and i know Jay Z ain't. [video=youtube;pWdluT_DOxw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWdluT_DOxw"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWdluT_DOxw[/video]
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (netsking @ Jul 11 2008, 07:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>You sure bout DeShawn i mean Lebrons not to high on him and i know Jay Z ain't. [video=youtube;pWdluT_DOxw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWdluT_DOxw"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWdluT_DOxw[/video]</div> Ok, how about a resigned Boki and Boone for Raja Bell -- gives us perimeter defense and a decent enough three-point shooter, plus we have no room for Boki and Boone's a career backup on a winning team. Raja has two years left. The salaries seem to match up pretty well, and I think the Suns might consider it since Boki fills somewhat of a need with their lack of a spot-up-shooting-oriented SF/PF.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Thomas J @ Jul 11 2008, 06:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (netsking @ Jul 11 2008, 07:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>You sure bout DeShawn i mean Lebrons not to high on him and i know Jay Z ain't. [video=youtube;pWdluT_DOxw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWdluT_DOxw"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWdluT_DOxw[/video]</div> Ok, how about a resigned Boki and Boone for Raja Bell -- gives us perimeter defense and a decent enough three-point shooter, plus we have no room for Boki and Boone's a career backup on a winning team. Raja has two years left. The salaries seem to match up pretty well, and I think the Suns might consider it since Boki fills somewhat of a need with their lack of a spot-up-shooting-oriented SF/PF. </div> Uh, No thank you please spin agian.
You know what's really sad? No one from our Summer League team can make our team then. Unless we start making trades that package people and consolidate, goodbye Jaycee Carroll, Richard Roby, and Julius Hodge. That sucks because I'm starting to drink the kool-aid, and it's giving me visions where Carroll is more fun to watch than Marcus Williams *sip* oh, he's shooting the 3 better than him, too!
