re: Another Discussion/Questions About the 3 and the 5

There are so many options and unknowns that I think we the fans will be flying blinder than usual trying to guess what Demps will do.

Option A, Cut everyone but the Finishing 5, Rivers, Withey and Ajinca. Have about $6.7 million in cap space and the $2.7 million Cap Room Exception.

Option B, Keep just about everyone including Melvin Ely and his voidable contract, make some trades and use the MLE ($5 million) and Bi Annual Exception ($2 million).

Monty seemed to feel that SF was the bigger of our 2 glaring holes. If that's the case with Option A I think they would go after Ariza/Sefolosha/PJ Tucker, hope there's enough cap space left over to resign Jason Smith as your starting center, and bring back Morrow with the Cap Room Exception.

Option B would probably involve something like trading for Kosta Koufos and using the MLE on a SF like Sefolosha/PJ Tucker/Jordan Hamilton/Marvin Williams/Richard Jefferson (I think if we just have the MLE Ariza isn't an option). You'd also have to hope the 2/$4 Bi Annual Exception was enough to keep Morrow.

The bottom line is Option A gives you more choices for filling EITHER the 3 or 5 and a better chance of keeping Morrow. Option B lets you fill both the 3 and 5, although the quality may not be as good or long term, and the odds of keeping Morrow go down.