SacTownKid
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I am afraid to log off. I feel like when I log on I'm going to see a max contract for Monta Ellis. Something around 20 a year.
Brooklyn had no win now players. We do.Looks like a Brooklyn Nets 2.0 move.... hope I'm proven wrong.
Even if we didn't end up signing anyone good this year we could sign a bunch of one year deals and then have at it next year.
ALSO, teams LOVE trading players to teams who can absorb salary, so if we don't sign someone we would be a VERY attractive trade partner.
It's win/win. JT/Landry and Nik weren't going to win us anything. We need to get rid of the clutter in order to make an overhaul of the bench.
I can't believe that people want to have the same team as last year + WCS. We would be back at 25-30 wins. We need to change the culture here and bringing in fresh blood while keeping our core will hopefully do the trick.
Do you think Vlade does this move unless he's confident we're going to at least get one of the guys we're after?
Not at all a fan of this move.
So we ditched a solid big on a decent contract and gave up on ANOTHER draft miss pick and our end game is either replicating the god awful Rondo/Ellis back court, because, you know....That worked SOOOOOO well for Dallas. OR we are going to grossly overpay someone who just had a potentially career altering injury?!
Ugh.
I want Vlade to succeed (obviously), and will happily eat crow if we land some great FAs because of this deal..... But right now it is looking like a very shaky roll of the dice. Even if we DO land our targets, we are still gambling on them actually translating into Ws.
The fact that we are going hard after Rondo and Ellis, two players that we have been going hard after well before **** hit the fan with PDA, well before Vlade, makes me wonder if this is The Irritant striking again.
Even if we didn't end up signing anyone good this year we could sign a bunch of one year deals and then have at it next year.
ALSO, teams LOVE trading players to teams who can absorb salary, so if we don't sign someone we would be a VERY attractive trade partner.
It's win/win. JT/Landry and Nik weren't going to win us anything. We need to get rid of the clutter in order to make an overhaul of the bench.
I can't believe that people want to have the same team as last year + WCS. We would be back at 25-30 wins. We need to change the culture here and bringing in fresh blood while keeping our core will hopefully do the trick.
Do you think Vlade does this move unless he's confident we're going to at least get one of the guys we're after?
I hope we can get Luke rindour for a few days
Had to make the move.
We had 3 main contributors lat year, not enough assets to patch all the holes, and we found a way to throw out as many as 6 main contributors next year, = Ben, without giving up any of our contributors from this past season.
I'm optimistic about Matthews...
There's an awful lot of successful teams out there trying to land this guy.
That's true but money being equal and if he looks at the rosters it comes down too:
Cousins/Gay
VS
Parsons/Dirk
Lowry/Derozan
I mean, I get it....
...I think it is just the names we are attached to that have me worried. Rondo doesn't help us. Ellis sure as hell doesnt help us. IF Wes can get back to his pre-injury level of play than he can DEFINITELY help us, but that is the gamble.
We shall see...
It shows me the reason that Pete had such a difficult time getting rid of them. We had to give up the farm just to cut them loose in a time when their contracts weren't outrageous.I just don't get why we had to give up picks to trade away those players?
Because our ownership is desperate to win now (at the expense of the future) and we don't have a strong nor coordinated enough front office to negotiate better deals.I just don't get why we had to give up picks to trade away those players?
That's true but money being equal and if he looks at the rosters it comes down too:
Cousins/Gay
VS
Parsons/Dirk
Lowry/Derozan
Sifting through all the stuff CD is saying, I think he thinks the problem is Vivek and the culture he sets.
And again I think it's related to whatever he heard earlier today.
Rondo may help us. Matthews may help us. Ellis is a major talent.
2 of them + a WCS added to Cousins/Gay/Collison puts us miles ahead. Even if you are forced to go with the much cheaper Jeremy Lin/Matthews or Lin/Ellis you have added two quality guards, and now have 4, and if its Lin you might still have enough money to go chase Koufos or some such.
Adn then you fill in the bench with Omri, Dre, Acy, Moreland, Dahntay etc. Tough vets, hard workers, scrappers.
Because our ownership is desperate to win now (at the expense of the future) and we don't have a strong nor coordinated enough front office to negotiate better deals.
Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA 9s10 seconds ago
Sacramento can clear cap space, but Kings are starting to understand: They'll have to overpay to bring players into that chaotic situation.
In Vlade we trust.
Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA 41s41 seconds ago
Sacramento is clearing the space for a pursuit in free agency, league sources tell Yahoo. Stauskas had been pursued by several teams
Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA 4m4 minutes ago
The Kings are sending Nik Stauskus to the 76ers as part of the deal too, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.
Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA 8m8 minutes ago
- Sacramento is trading Jason Thompson and Carl Landry as part of a salary dump to the Philadelphia 76ers, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.
And what happens if we can't get any of them (Ellis/Rondo/Matthews) to come here?