Quick says look for a trade on draft night for a center

I just believe that there are much worse options than him. Young, defensive minded, athletic, great shot blocker. People complain about his contract, but what else is out there? It's tough to find the perfect guy who is both a very good rim protector as well as cheap

 

If we got McGee; we would be insanely better

 

There have been some that wanted to offer 12 mil per to pek. Tall about a mistake!

 

I completely disagree. Spending that much money on McGee is just throwing away cap space.

 

McGee played 18 mpg this year AFTER signing a huge contract. Denver would probably give him away, and would be a better team for it by freeing up that money.

 

I really don't understand the McGee love. Yes, he has tons of athleticism, but he has a 10c head.

 

Ya I don't think we have the coaching or veteran players to effectively mentor McGee into a legit starting center.

 

Maybe if we bought him some Hooked on Phonics tapes though...

 

But if we could get him on a salary dump, I certainly wouldn't say no. You can't teach his size/athleticism.

 

there are worse options and frankly everyone who might be available has issues. I think McGee is available for a decent price, we have to take a chance somewhere, I hate the Gortat idea, he's average and has ONE yr left on his contract, screw that.

IMO either go after someone like McGee or draft a C like Dieng.

 

please add "IMHO" when you make a stmt like that

 

So would you eat up all our cap space on him?

 

Swap our pick and Freeland for him, and we'd still have about 7 million in cap space.

 

Denver doesn't, either, and they have an experienced staff.

 

It is my opinion. That's assumed, isn't it?

 

way to much to give up, the pick and freeland is the most I give with the rest capspace.

 

I'm all for adding him, and do think he would be a big help for our team. And if we moved Freeland for him, we'd still have more than MLE amount of cap space left. With the roughly 13 million in space, or so, it seems many have advocated for basically splitting that money between a C and backup SG/6th man. So you trade for McGee, and throw remaining amount, 4 year, 30 million dollar deal at a 6th man. Offer that up to Reddick, Monta, perhaps, maybe Jack, etc. Offer mini-mle to Maynor, 2 years 5ish million, and bring in a minimum big or two.

Lillard/Maynor
Wes/Reddick/Barton
Batum/Claver
Aldridge/FA
McGee/Leonard

Still a lot of youth on that squad, definite room for improvement from most of the guys, but the potential to be a middle of the pack playoff team as soon as next season.

 

Shit, I meant Freeland, not Leonard, I'll edit.

 

A guy who plays 18 mpg and makes over $11m/year isn't a 'decent price', IMHO.

 

How do you figure? Roughly $11.8 in cap space, McGee makes $11.25m against the cap.