hey Stephen, great piece as always.....you're the best writer on the bulls out there (and i mean that completely objectively!), and i don't understand why you're not still writing for the athletic or one of the nationals. i'm not going to name names, but 90% of the beat writers don't have your talent at writing, your creativity, nor your analytic skills.
anyhoo, i was on the tank wagon prior to the trade, and still would have preferred, aiming for a potential generational talent in suggs, (as we desperately need a star point guard who can defend and grow with the current core), and offered up any player not named zach or pat and a future first if the lottery balls didn't bounce our way. i get the whole "let's be competitive (well, ummm...hardly!), let's appease zach...let's make the play in..." etc etc, but i think that's too much of a short term view, and trading some of our draft equity and a young talent for a soon to be 31 year old big, who can't defend, rather than carry on building upwards seems rather myopic. i don't even understand the "two all stars" thing. if the all stars weren't chosen by position, then vooch would be way below jimmy, bam, middleton, trae young, and even sabonis. he's a "good" player, but isn't...well obviously hasn't.....moved the needle much. i get the rebuttal "but they haven't had a training camp together"...ok fine! but it's not as if vooch moved the needle very much in orlando with superior talent.
so my question is this: would it be worth trying to trade into the first round, by grabbing one of the defensive minded pg's like davion mitchell, josh giddey (ok, he's maybe a playmaking wing), tre mann, jaden springer, or even guys like jared butler, sharife cooper?
Great piece! I know it’s tough to tell this early, but curious if there’s a pg or wing player in particular that you speculate may be available and that our expiring vet contracts might be able to pull?
Nice graph, too bad you don't know that a team cannot possibly use the BAE and the Room MLE in the same offseason.
In order to have a Room MLE, you have to have cap space - and in order to have cap space, you have to renounce your BAE.
You might want to check out Larry Coon's CBA FAQ, it explains stuff like this in detail.
http://cbafaq.com
hey Stephen, great piece as always.....you're the best writer on the bulls out there (and i mean that completely objectively!), and i don't understand why you're not still writing for the athletic or one of the nationals. i'm not going to name names, but 90% of the beat writers don't have your talent at writing, your creativity, nor your analytic skills.
anyhoo, i was on the tank wagon prior to the trade, and still would have preferred, aiming for a potential generational talent in suggs, (as we desperately need a star point guard who can defend and grow with the current core), and offered up any player not named zach or pat and a future first if the lottery balls didn't bounce our way. i get the whole "let's be competitive (well, ummm...hardly!), let's appease zach...let's make the play in..." etc etc, but i think that's too much of a short term view, and trading some of our draft equity and a young talent for a soon to be 31 year old big, who can't defend, rather than carry on building upwards seems rather myopic. i don't even understand the "two all stars" thing. if the all stars weren't chosen by position, then vooch would be way below jimmy, bam, middleton, trae young, and even sabonis. he's a "good" player, but isn't...well obviously hasn't.....moved the needle much. i get the rebuttal "but they haven't had a training camp together"...ok fine! but it's not as if vooch moved the needle very much in orlando with superior talent.
so my question is this: would it be worth trying to trade into the first round, by grabbing one of the defensive minded pg's like davion mitchell, josh giddey (ok, he's maybe a playmaking wing), tre mann, jaden springer, or even guys like jared butler, sharife cooper?
Great piece! I know it’s tough to tell this early, but curious if there’s a pg or wing player in particular that you speculate may be available and that our expiring vet contracts might be able to pull?