re: Official 2018 Pelicans Offseason Thread

Diallo gives you production you can get for near minimum money. If he ever turns a corner it probably will take 2-3 more years. That timeline doesn’t fit maximizing our ability to keep AD. I’m not saying I’m ready to bet on Hood, but a gamble on an RFA wing is a lot more likely to payoff in ADs timeline than betting on Diallo becoming something.

Yeah dell will sell Diallo down river first chance he gets

Is the market for Hood really around 3/26 mil?

I would love that and to somehow convince the Clips to take Ajinca and a future 2nd for one of Beverley or Teodosic and then maybe sign Devin Harris to min

Beverley / Payton / Harris / Jackson
Holiday / Moore / Clark
Hill / Hood / vet min wing (Brewer please)
Randle / Mirotic / Diallo
Davis / vet min center (Monroe)

Problem is you don’t really have a lot of high expirings to make a trade at the deadline so you are limiting yourself somewhat.

Thanks.

Fair enough.
Rather keep the cap space next season for Barnes or Walker.

Miller>hood if I'm buying for red hot nights

Any chance he would sign for the QPon exception if Cleveland just looking for a 2nd rounder and a TPE? I guess that would be a 2 year/$8 million deal or a 3 year/$12.3 million (somewhere in that ballpark).

He actually wants to come here too. He keeps liking random social media posts saying he should go to the Pels.

If I was going to spend $7-9 mil on Hood, I’d rather go up to say $11-13 mil (no idea what it’ll take to get done) and take a chance on a guy with some upside in Jabari Parker.

MIL needs to clear some space if they want to keep Middleton and Bledsoe.

To sign for multiple years (which needs to happen for a sign and trade to be possible), I think you need to give Hill at least 7-9 per. Otherwise, he would just sign his QO for 3.5 and enter FA next year, where there will be over twice the money there was this summer. There would be no reason for him to bypass that, just to get 4 or 5 mil this season.

And to the question of "Is a backup worth that?" -- Bad question, because not all backups are created equal. Some backups play 30 minutes, some play 8 minutes. I would say that, in order to be "worth" that contract, a guy would have to play at least 24 minutes and be 15-20% better than replacement level in that role.

I think some people here have recency bias and are simply judging Hood on his stint with the Cavs, and in particular, the game he didn't go into the game. I also want to say that he has played with two teams in his career that were slow pace for the most part and Hood is obviously the type of guy that would flourish far more in an uptempo attack that moves the ball. I think Finch's system would absolutely be amazing for him offensively. Skill wise, he is 4, maybe 5 times the player Miller is. Just skill.

It would come down to his maturity level, his professionalism, and his willingness to work on the defensive end. But with his upside, you aint getting him for 4 or 5 mil. I think the Pels see a guy who could take off in their system and reach heights he never has before, and they'd have to pay a bit to find out if thats true