(07-05-2023, 11:45 PM)omahen Wrote: Stein thinks PJ Washington wants at least 18 mil annualy
If you add Williams, PJ and Thybulle, you've completely revamped your perimeter defense, to where I think you can get away with a cheap stop gap center or even none. Think about the Mavs defense in 2021-22 but with even better perimeter defense both in the starting unit and the bench. They were top 10 defensively with nothing to speak of at the 5 as well as terrible rebounding. I'd 100% still go after PJ over some expensive 5. The PJ-Williams pair works fantastically, and you keep Green/Thybulle/Omax on the bench unit, which will also smother opposing bench units defensively.
I think you could roll with what we have at the 5 and the perimeter defense revamp alone would put us back where we were in 21-22 defensively minimum. I'd throw THJ plus picks and whatever else is needed for the numbers to work to try and bring him in on a S&T.