re: Pels select Branden Dawson, michigan State or Cash Considerations

Better than spelling fails.

And that's your opinion.

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We have basically maxed out our cap

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It was already maxed out. Not having Asik doesn't give us any functional cap space. That was the entire point of trading for him.

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Do you really want to sign him long to a 40-50 million dollar deal

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I'm still undecided whether I want a 1 year overpay or a 4 year declining deal. With a 4/$40 declining, year's 3 and 4 are equivalent to around $6 million in today's cap dollars. Asik making backup money to be the 3rd big that we may not even see in certain match ups is a lot more appealing than Asik making starter money with a starter's role.

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How does he fit in Gentry's uptempo Phoenix Suns offense?

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He fit in Houston's fast paced offense just fine, in fact one of the Rockets fans that frequents here said he looks like a different player (in a bad way) with the Pelicans. But if he doesn't fit, that goes back to what I said before, you can argue that Mozgov or Koufos would have been better targets, but I don't think you can argue that playing last year and this coming year with a Stiemsma level center was the way to go. The decision of slow vs. fast rebuild has already been made, there's not much point in half assing it because fans are easily excited by draft picks.

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He fit in Houston's fast paced offense just fine, in fact one of the Rockets fans that frequents here said he looks like a different player (in a bad way) with the Pelicans.

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Yep. I didn't watch too much of Houston then, but supposedly he was very good with the quick outlet pass after a defensive rebound. That's not a bad thing for a fast paced team.

I'm not "derailing" the thread. The thread was about the pick. Which we sold, which I don't agree with. Try not being so condescending when you disagree with someone.

Its the 56th pick. Do you realize how rare it is that that pick would amount to even making the team, let alone contributing?

Do you realize what selling for cash allows us to do, or do you just think it goes right in Benson's pocket to never be seen again?

On topic, can these "cash considerations" be combined with our $3m to send out $6M in a future trade or are we still limited to sending out $3M?

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I wonder if He has a buyout?

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Who is He?

Such a jokester you are

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I said selling the pick coupled with doing NOTHING in the draft for a team that has no cap room to sign FA's is stupid. This shows a pattern year after year of auctioning off the future and having to overpay for FA's.

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Whatever we sold it for, is worth more than what we would have gotten had we kept it. As my original post pointed out, that pick is worth a ham sandwich.

We didn't do NOTHING in the draft. We traded our 18th pick for Omer Asik, it just happened a year ago. Did you want to trade next years pick for something too, or do you want to keep not having picks? Or maybe you wanted to trade our flame thrower for an unproven guy in the late 20's that history says has a 10% chance of panning into anything, much less a legit player like we'd have to give up to get it.

No we don't have cap room....this year. Doesn't mean we can't or won't make moves this summer.
Next year we will have enough to give a max contract out if we wanted to. Have some patience. We aren't winning a championship this year, we are still building on one. We've got at least 6 more years of AD, we've got time.


This team, when healthy, can be a very good team, a top 4 team in the West. Get to that level this year, get rid of EG/Ryno contracts, hopefully Asiks, and upgrade next summer with FA's and we may have a contender.
FA's will want to come play here if we are a top 4 team and we have the best player in the league. New Orleans might not be LA or NYC, but it sure as shite ain't Cleveland, or Minnesota, or Milwaukee.