09-08-2022, 01:48 PM
(09-08-2022, 01:26 PM)ItsGoTime Wrote: Please don’t tell me the quality of the players on our team are on par with the players on those teams. I have no problem spending Cuban’s money when we have the right players in the most important places. We’re building the team backwards and the bench overflows to the starting unit.
Being over the taxpayer threshold limits our use of the picks we’re about to have access to because we don’t have the ability to bring in more salary than is outgoing and we don’t have the other assets to make up the difference. This is the reason we constantly have to say, other teams can beat that offer.
I’m almost to the point that I wish they would just get off every contract except Luka and DFS’s and start from scratch.
Personally I think if you add a SGA or Siakam or somebody like that and keep our top 6 or 7 players we are at those teams level because of Luka.
As for trade matching, you can do 125% trade matching while over the tax. The value of having a lot of salary when making that big trade is that you can send out filler and picks and still keep your core (who a rebuilding team probably does not want anyways). Its a very similar path the Bucks took. We don't have a Middleton, but we do have more quality role players. I think we just need that number 2.
I see no path to contention or holding onto Luka by stripping it down to the bolts and starting over. With all of the extensions getting handed out these days, there is very little available in free agency. You are also bringing your payroll down to the cap level plus exceptions. That process would take years to do right and we don't have that kind of time regarding Luka. The only option I see is big spending plus a big trade with picks. It would be different if this FO was better since the Luka draft, but it hasn't been.