Series notes: Wells says ball in Kings court

[KingCookie]

Championship window??? I think, first, they need to find a map to the Championship house, then they can begin to think about where the right window is located.

This offseason is key to the future of this team. Hopefully they don't blow it.

Resigning Wells, IMO, is a major factor towards our future success. And if they don't sign him, at LEAST do an S&T...we can't let him walk away and have nothing to show for showcasing him in our unis.

 

[Oscar]

If Bonzi gets what he wants to stay with the Kings, next year he won't play as good as he did in this year's playoffs. Players often sack up when they know their contract is up. And when they get the new contract, they often slack off because they know that no matter what, the money will still be there. Better to cut him loose now.

 

[Gary]

As we don't know what Martin's growth is going to look like, that's all speculation.

Mentioned before, if he's good enough to push Bonzi out of the way, Kevin will eventually do it. then either Bonzi accepts a bench role, or you trade him coming off of several years as a productive starter.

If he's not good enough to push Bonzi out of the way, then no big loss, and Kevin settles in as the bench guy.

In any case, for Kevin to be more effective than Bonzi, to pass him up, he probably has to emerge as about an 18ppg+ scorer. He's not there yet. And with our championship window with this crew (assuming large parts of it are back) pretty much NOW, tossing talent overboard in the hopes of future development could easily be the difference between ever making a serious run at things or just being caught perpetually hanging around the playoff edges.

Pushing for an S&T NOW, before we can be sure about Kevin, and while Bonzi is in the driver's seat as to where he goes, makes no sense. If Kevin's good enough, you can always trade Bonzi later, when we are in control, and when we are sure that we're not shooting ourselves in the foot.

I agree, kind of, because we really have trimmed the fat from the bench with the exception of Corliss (6,500,000), and Potapenko (2,833,773) which is nothing compared to a lot of teams out there.. I guess we could have an 8 million dollar salary player off the bench for a couple years. I am talking about players we don't use at the moment.

You guys notice that our cap problems are pretty much no more? We have one 10+ million dollar/year player in Bibby.

 

[Warhawk]

And Brad is close behind at just under $9 mil.