Absolutely I do. I am talking only in the event that we leave this summer with no major acquisitions and are forced to hand out deals like we did last year with Jordan HIll. We're not there yet at all. There's other teams in our exact same position who could also swing and miss on everyone. I'm just saying if we leave FA and we don't even have Greg Monroe or Tobias Harris, then it's time to start looking at our FO differently.
Well, it is a lot easier to lure one in if you can tell them a second one is coming. There were rumors that Melo and LBj wanted to play together last off season and LA was a possibility, but Kobe's contract made that impossible. Probably just rumors, but still. Like I said ealier in this thread. Tell me a conference call with Deandre and LMA wouldn't have put us close to the front of the line with both.
That's fair, I'm just not crossing my fingers that we get either Harris or Monroe at this point. It would be a major blunder but there's so many factors. We have limited talent, our best player has played 41/162 last games, and we're in a ridiculously difficult conference. Yes the FO should be able to mitigate some of that with "Lakers, LA, tradition" but if Monroe chooses NY - Carmelo is more productive than Kobe today and a shot at the playoffs is much easier.
This is how I feel about next summer. Go to Durant pitching Randle/Russell/Clarkson + 2 more MAX free agents to come with him. And maybe Kobe on a smaller salary.
I was kidding... I think we need to spend this cash on whoever will take it. If we take one-year deals again, we have utterly and completely failed this summer.
That's what I'm saying! With the new salary cap percentage wise it would be a nice contract. He fills so many needs.....
Is there a rule that they can't just offer it themselves? It has to be a match? Seems redundant if not...
I got you. But I was more advocating the idea for just next summer though, with the plan of using this summer as a means to finding bargain deals that add cheaper and younger players. My idea to hold out for the summer of 2016 is based on the fact that we'll see an unprecedented cap spike, and we'd have an almost clean slate to play with it.
God knows. Problem is with Kobe's contract, we have enough cash to give us huge expectations, but not enough to actually do damage. At this point, let's go after Robin Lopez and KJ McDaniels and be done with it. It's not about sitting on the cash at this point. It's the fact that the players worth spending it on are gone. You MIGHT be able to talk me into Monroe, but him with Randle and Kobe at sf ,with Clarkson and Russell at the guard spots. We may set points per game against records. Monroe isn't a star, which means he's a role player. And role players are about fit. Monroe doesn't fit with this current team.
Basically Golden State thinks he's worth less than the max. He wants max. They tell him, okay well go get a max offer from someone and we'll match it, but we don't think you'll find that offer. As soon as someone gives him the offer, they just say "alright I guess you were right, congrats" and they match the offer.
