so this is where goals/aspirations become jumbled:

if the goal is title or bust, they might as well ship Davis out now for picks picks picks; better odds for a ring there than continuing on this path

if it's a solid, strong, entertaining team, what's wrong w/ internal improvement? what was Memphis saying in 2009?

what is wrong w/ building around an identity of a top 10 defense (assuming it's not a mirage) + Anthony Davis at the 5? seems like a solid blueprint. maybe they never reach the promised land, but are consistent 50 win type seasons bad?

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Holiday at $20 per year on a medium length contract was a more valuable trade asset

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resigning Tyreke as a potential trade asset

dear god, no more of this. sign the guys you want to play here at money you want to give them. if a deal comes along, great. but keeping guys w/ their injury history just to maybe move later is foolish. it's outsmarting yourself at gming.

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Posted by TigerinATL

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Posted on 1/17/17 at 8:15 pm to corndeaux

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if it's a solid, strong, entertaining team, what's wrong w/ internal improvement? what was Memphis saying in 2009?

I have no problem with aiming for a Memphis style run, but Holiday and Hield will need to kick it up a notch to get them there.

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sign the guys you want to play here at money you want to give them. if a deal comes along,

But the problem is they don't necessarily get to bank that money for later if they don't spend it. If the only thing that happens with the roster is Tyreke walks you only have $7.5 million in cap space. You might be better off with the $8.4 million MLE.

Is choosing one of DMo/Jones with cap space and signing someone like Lance with the Room exception better than DMo/Jones with the MLE and resigning Tyreke with Bird Rights? Maybe, I guess it depends on how mismatched Tyreke and Gentry actually are. I think there's a lot of echo chamber effect in just how bad things between Tyreke and the team are. The main source of this was the very open but civil disagreement with the coach over the system and "inside info" suggesting the team is done with him.

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