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That would be nice. But, I'm not sure the Lakers want to go that much over the luxury tax. If they signed Reaves to a deal starting at 12m, Washington to a deal starting at 15m, and a player with the tax payer MLE for 5.7m, to go along with the first round pick salary of 2-3 million, and we are looking at a payroll of about 183 million.

 

Luckily the NBA is favoring the rich and really raising the lux tax to a generous 162 million next season (thank god).

For the record, 183 million is 21 million over the lux tax, which with the repeater hit is an additional 60 million tax hit so, 243 million salary. Not nearly as bad had it been in previous years when the lux tax line was much lower.

 

I like this deal the best, but if we're taking Hayward I'd be absolutely adamant about no picks involved from our side unless it's a second rounder.

 

Y'all see roziers game last nite 7-13 53% from 3pt fg and 11-25 44% overall na man that's 2 many shots for him 4 stls 5 assts. 3 rebs 34pts

 

i think the game would come much easier for rozier here than it does for him in charlotte. he's poised to have a late career like jason terry, imo.

our issue is that a) russ has actually played well since moving to the bench and getting acclimated to that, and b) ham likes schroder as the starting pg.

so would we end up in a situation where rozier is another expensive bench player, or worse, we're still starting two small guys in the backcourt?

i'd still make the move if all it cost was bev/nunn, but i can see why the FO might not.

 

Seeing this way too often, and it’s getting frustrating to the point where I’m warming up to the idea of even overpaying for someone like Bogdanovic

So many of our plays actually involve some great movement and passing, get the crowd oohing and aahing as the ball swings to a wide open three point shooter… only for the shooter to hesitate or pass up the three due to lack of confidence. They keep swinging the ball around the perimeter as the initial advantage from the play progressively declines, ends up resulting in a worse shooter having to force up a worse shot or even the play entirely resetting and someone having to try to create their own shot from scratch.

Really think even having one elite shooter out there (I like Reaves and Walker, but they’re a bit streaky) would do wonders for this team

 

Yeah. No question we could use a shooter. Even our coach has said it multiple times.

 

I wouldn't pay Reaves 12 million or Washington 15 million either. I don't think either one of those guys get that kind of cash in free agency.

 

yeah, i don't think reaves is going to get 12 million per from anyone. i'll be very surprised if anyone gets near 10 per, tbh. he'll get a caruso-type deal, maybe a bit less.

 

It's hard to say, another high volume jump shooter, is absolutely not getting the same kind of high volume looks, on a team with Lebron and AD. I'd look at a guy that is efficient on fewer shots. The idea of adding more 3pt shooting, has some merit though, but then again we won a chip with the 21st ranked 3pt shooting team in the league.

Austin and Lonnie are the two best 3pt shooters on the team. It looks like more of an issue with those two out. The other concern for me, is that Lebron is still going to take the majority of our 3 pt shots anyway, now we go out and add another guy that needs to get up a lot of 3's to be effective. I'm not sure that's going to work out like people think. Lebron is shooting a career low from deep this season.

 

I like Bogdanovic over Rozier all day. He's more efficient from 3 on less shots and he can score without the 3. He can also be had for less due to his age IMO.

 

So what? We won a chip with 11 threes made per game. Every team we beat in the playoffs shot better from 3 that year too. It is not the big deal you keep making it out to be. We already proved that on the court.

 

I have no problem with dumping Bev and Nunn for Bogdanovic or Walker. I still don't believe that the 3 is some magic potion or something. However Bogdanovic actually scores most of his points from 2. I like that part better, he's simply a scorer that can hit the 3 at a high clip.