I think we'll see a lot of 'cake baking' next year. Lots of internal growth. Harkless of course is the hot topic at the moment. Can he maintain the momentum and continue to improve next year? With him getting more time, teams will start to scout him more heavily and recognize they can/should force him to take the outside shot. Until he gets a more reliable jumper, he can be contained. If he improves his jumper, watch out! We probably won't be seeing Kaman and Roberts back, so there will be two roster spots available. I'm guessing we won't see any big splash signings like Durrant, Horford, Whiteside or Parsons. I'm thinking we'll see a couple of bargain signings. Probably someone like Biyombo (age 23), Turner (age 27), Ezeli (age 26), or Fournier (age 23). I'd be okay with 2 of those signings to round out the roster and add a bit of depth.
They're so interchangeable. Is that what Stotts would say? I think Aminu can defend power forwards because of his length.
Neil has to spend the money. This is his one chance. After this summer it's gone. Dame will be super maxed. CJ will get his extension. We won't be anywhere near the cap.
You're right, and I'm guessing Neil won't hesitate to make a few max offers. The challenge will be to get one of the big names to bite.
Maybe not even a big name. If he could add a couple scorers to this team, I think it could make a huge difference.
Scoring isn't our problem. We're the 6th best offensive team in the NBA. We just need to work on our team defense.
He can spend it on the guys we already have.[/QUOTE] He can spend it on the guys we already have AND use the cap space. It's called restricted free agents, and we have three of them.
Harkless and Aminu are improving as scorers. Vonleh has an offseason to improve. And then there's Meyers.
I'm fine with someone like Horford. He wouldn't disrupt chemistry, but who else? Meyers Leonard can score and needs another chance.
There's an easy way to figure out if we need more players. Baseball has system called WAR. It's a measure of a players value per year against the average of every other player at his position. Every championship team has a very high combined WAR. Like the Royals last year won it all and were ranked 5th in the final combined statistics. I'm am sure basketball has a equivalent statistic..... (PERS I think.) I would think that you can a four or five year projection of all our players at their highest projected equivalent future WAR-type stat. How would the collected data match up against the say the last 10 NBA champions..... if the data isn't comperable then we need more players. I am sure their are some Sabermetric Jonah Hill moneyball types out there. I'm not sorry. I'm just a lazy old Gen Xer who collects vinyl.
Dames super max kicks in for this offsets on so that's not a change, and CJs qualifying offer won't be too much.
Now if we can get a quality max player go for it; if not I like Neil's strategy of acquiring undervalued diamond in the rough players on reasonable contracts. If we can keep Harkless, Crabbe, Hendo on reasonable contracts do it. Ultimately I think DameCJ and Ed Davis are the core components of this team and everyone else is just a role player. Harkless has done more in 8 games than Meyers has done in 4 years; and he's younger. I think he should clearly be a higher priority. I can't fathom how some fans think Meyers is worth keeping on a $10+ million per year contract. The guy hasn't proven to be a productive backup nor does he have starter upside. He bet on himself and lost; not the teams job to pay bad gambling debts.
What ya think of Zbo? Bring him back. Memphis is gonna rebuild soon. Get Zbo as a stop gap while Vonleh still develops and he can teach him
