I pick Ezeli. I think we've no shot at Whiteside, Biyombo will be way overpriced, I wouldn't touch Howard if he offered to pay his own way, and Ezeli actually has pretty impressive "rim protection".
I think we are gonna come close on whiteside but we are gonna strikeout so we will shift our attention to Howard and give him a near max deal.
Hoping for Whiteside as he seems our best chance at a difference maker, I think Horford is a pipe dream and Dwight is real iffy. So if Whiteside fails I think it's Mahinmi or Aldrich
Whiteside goes to Lakers, we watch Conley and once he indicates that he is leaving Memphis we swoop in like a bird of prey and take Gasol.
How much will you guys freak out if we blow our load on Harry Barnes and come back with the same C rotation?
That's not what we need from a center at all. Plumdog was 22nd in blocks in the playoffs. #34 in defensive advanced stats in the post season. He sits between Dragic and Isaiah Thomas in that metric. Whiteside was the clear #1.
When, and if, he actually plays. He's missed 154 of a possible 246 regular season games the last three seasons. That's very Odenesque. BNM
If we end up with Dwight, that's gonna kill free agency for me. Dude is lazy, slow, terrible in the post. Injury prone. He can still defend a little bit. That's about it. Woj has him getting a one year deal and just being one of those players that does short deals because teams wont want him on a 4-5 year deal