re: Official Free Agency and Trade Thread: Latest Pels sign Charles Cooke to 2 way

quote:

---

Why would drafting Fultz instead of trading down for Tatum prevent them from signing Hayward or getting 50 wins?

---

you wrote

quote:

---

The most logical thing to do was probably draft Fultz and move on from IT.

---

i assumed, incorrectly it appears, that you meant draft Fultz, then try to deal Thomas this summer.

still, stands to reason, they werent pitching Hayward on the idea of taking a step back over the next 3-4 years, which is practically impossible to do if they drop Thomas.

whether you like it or not, it seems like they are going to ride w/ Thomas for a while.

quote:

---

they need someone who can consistently guard 1's

---

Hayward and Brown and Rozier and whichever one of Smart/Bradley is still around can guard 1s. they're fine there

quote:

---

If Jae was on the last year of his deal, he would be gone.

---

perhaps. but this is just bizarre.

so the master plan would be:

trade a better player at a more valuable position so we can keep expiring guards, all of whom we wont be able to sign next summer, so we can give our rookie lots of minutes as we try to make the NBA finals

quote:

---

Those aren't great percentages all things considered.

---

I didn't say they were great. How many teams are loaded with great 3P shooters outside of GS? Those are average to above league average numbers

Dude said they can't shoot for shite. It's just being grossly exaggerated. They were league average as a team last year and that was with Rubio and Dunn

They are shopping for shooters, too.

quote:

---

There is a reason, most every pundit is throwing this thought around while still having access to these straight % numbers

---

Vegas > pundits

quote:

---

Q-PON is working on staying alive

---

Huge, if true.

quote:

---

I didn't say they were great.

---

Ok, I agree they aren't terrible shooters, I misunderstood you.

They are definitely a bunch of guys that will give you average results when they have to settle for the 3pt. The issue is that they don't have a single person who's game runs through 3pt efficiency primarily; which in today's nba, is a formula that is hard to win with. Unless they fix that problem, there's going to be no room for any of these guys to operate to their full potential; so at this point, they aren't that scary to me. The taj signing doesn't give me hope that thibs realizes this.

Hawks

quote:

---

Hawks

---

Expected to reach a buyout. LAL are where he is rumored to want to play

@wojespn: Jazz, Celtics engage on Gordon Hayward sign-and-trade for Jae Crowder. Latest story with @ramonashelburne LINK

m.twitter.com/wo...

Jazz stacked Pels fricked

No, who's going to score on the Jazz? Their lineup is great defensively but who's going to take over the game?

Gobert
Favors
Crowder
Hood
Rubio

Yeah I'm to the point now where I've accepted we haven't made any moves because Dell simply put this organization in a very bad spot salary-cap wise. No assets, no flexibility, no future picks- just a ton of really bad contracts given to average to below average players- including a contract given to center named Omer Asik that is impossible to move.

You really think Dell hasn't tried to move Asik? Nobody wants him, period. That is dead money for the next 2 seasons, nothing you can do about that. Even if you attached a first I don't think that's enough to rid Asik- or else Demps would have already made a trade. So for everybody complaining and worrying about other teams making moves and us not.. well... we don't have any cap space left nor assets for a trade to make a good move.

Demps just signed Darius Miller today. Those are the weak moves he's been working on and really his only choice. Look for a few more scrub signings to fill out the roster and MAYBE a CJ miles for the MLE- but that is it. Demps ain't doing anything else trust me.