he turned the salary of Stauskas plus Wade Baldwin plus two send round picks into Hood. But that Stauskas salary could have been invested in a better player to start with Curry was not signed with a vet minimum deal. He and Gary Trent were signed using parts of the MLE (Blazers used the MLE on Trent so they could sign him for 3 years, IIRC)
huh? I was explicitly talking about one tool, the vet minimum exception, and I did so right after Rasta mentioned Rondo playing for the vet minimum; and that was the post you quoted and if you care to withdraw the "pedantic" charge and look a little further back in this thread, you'll find a post of mine where I specifically mentioned Curry as part of general bargain shopping, even though he signed with Portland for a similar salary to his previous one
I would target two bargain basement players splitting our MLE between Michael Carter Williams because he is the backup PG we have been sorely needing and can defend both guard positions and Nerlens Noel as our backup big because he protects the paint and is athletic enough to get out on stretch bigs.
Don’t know much about him but loved what I saw from him. I think having him as a backup to Ariza or whoever will be our starting SF is this year will be valuable. Then come time his new contract starts in the 2021-2022 season, we could throw him into the starting lineup in his year 4, or year 5 if we have to. I think year 4 is probably where we should expect the big leap. I really do believe in Simons still, but being on a team where they aren’t expected to win might be best for him, especially if Beal is traded. With a really high possibility that all of S.Bey, Williams, Neismith, and Vassel being gone by #16, I would be on board with drafting Anthony to replace whatever potential Simons had on the team. Anthony is certainly a scorer and has the potential to be that third guard that we hope Simons will be. Props to you for this one
In regards to bacup PG, I'd have to take another look at the exact substitution patterns, but I think some of our struggles could be alleviated if we swapped the early substitution times of Dame and CJ. Usually CJ sits end of 1st, and Dame sits beginning of the 2nd. I'd love to see Dame start the game, establish a rhythym, then get a break towards end of 1, and come back at beginning of 2 with the bench unit the way CJ usually does. Let CJ attack at end of 1, but with a few starters potentially out there. Basically, Dame should get the bench PG minutes, CJ should have to have either Nurk or Dame out there with him always.
it would be interesting to see some variance of the substitution patterns, I agree. If only to see if something can work better. I'd also wonder if some variance might keep players better engaged I'm guessing Stotts wants Dame in some kind of rhythm to close out the last 6 minutes of the 1st half and the 4th Q. Unfortunately, too many times this season Stotts had to rush Dame back in the game early in the 4thQ. I'm not sure a typical backup PG would have solved that
Plenty of C available for vet minimum. I would target the best full MLE free agent max 4 years first instead of splitting it. Ideally a big wing like Jeremi Grant although now he probably makes too much. Would Dragic sign for full MLE? Probably not but he would form our best guard rotation since Ainge.
I would freaking love to have Dragić. He would transform our bench into a monsters. Imagine him with Trent, Hood, and Collins off of the bench. But he probably will sign some kind of one year deal with the heat. But maybe Nurkic and Hezonja are recruiting him hard
You all are JOKING about getting Dragic... right? I mean, you do know how important he is to the Heat?
He may not want to live in Oregon again after being booted the last time he was here for something he was never actually charged with. His memories here can't be too good.
