How about taking Blake's? Batum Roy Hedo LaMarcus Oden that is a fun lineup, reminds me of Pippen's final year when he got significant burn at PG. Roy and Hedo would have enough ball handling to make up for no PG. Batum could guard the short quick PG's of the league. Who would those little PG's guard in the post on our team?
If anything, Rudy should take Blake's spot. Hopefully the job will go to a new guy or at worse, Bayless
Rudy at the 1 could be a fun line-up as well. I think that's my favorite part of a Turkoglu signing is the versatility it allows in potential lineup configurations.
I see our 6-9th men being Rudy, Batum, Pryzbilla and Bayless in that order -- plenty of options and some versatility with each player potentially capable of playing a couple of positions. More importantly I think there's still enough minutes to go around for all involved since it sounds like Hedo would be mostly filling the minutes vacated by Outlaw (I consider him gone about two minutes after, if Hedo gets signed), with Bayless taking the minutes vacated by Sergio and Batum probably still getting somewhere in the neighborhood of 18-20 minutes per game like last year. With Blake and Rudy I think Blake potentially could see his minutes drop with Rudy snagging some of them. Assuming Hedo is the only target I think a minutes breakdown with a nine man rotation could be something like this: Roy: 37, Aldridge: 37 Hedo: 32, Oden: 30, Rudy: 28, Blake: 24, Pryzbilla 18, Batum: 20, Bayless: 14
Then he should play well, something he's never done in his career (outside of the Magic Quarter and the Exhibition Game of Doom that seems to have made his legend).
I agree with all the minutes here except for Oden. I am thinking 28 minutes is what he will give next season.
I think Outlaw is as good as gone in a trade and Martell at this point is anything but a sure thing to be healthy enough to play, if he does get up to speed then I can see a mid-season trade. If there was some kind of consolidation trade then it's likely it will be for a starting point guard in which case I see Blake gone along with Travis and Blake's minutes would go to that player. Frankly the Hedo deal tells me more moves are on the way.
I think it's most likely we have 1 player injured as well, there may be periods of time where everyone is healthy but there will be periods where a couple of guys are out. While Outlaw or Martell would both certainly be available if a trade offer comes along, keeping them on the squad provides nice value and would allow a constant solid rotation with an extended injury at any position.
