Where does our cap space go now?

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Obviously not a sf, since we now have 5 of them, including Salmons. No AK, no Prince, no Battier. This is with the 2nd round still to come.

A guard? Nope. Traded Beno to make room for Jimmer(welcome Jimmer!). Jimmer/Reke/Marcus will eat up the mins. The cap space wasn't for a 4th guard anyway.

So all this cap space we aquired, while sucking for years, where will it now go? Where is the big splash the Maloofs, and the FO were talking about. Salmons is not a big splash. Neither is Jimmer, just a draft pick. Love him, but didn't take effort or cost cap space.

We're supposed to use our cap space to help get us over the hump, provide leadership, and get a player who can help us make deep runs in the playoffs in a few years. Salmons obviously is not that guy. So where is it going to come from?
 
C or PF. This year's free agency is heavy on centers and power forwards anyways so it might work out well. Make a run for Marc Gasol. That's what i'm hoping for.
 
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You're right in that as far as major FA signings go, we've kind of pulled ourselves out of the market. But we still have plenty of room to maneuver when it comes to absorbing a big salary through a trade (whether we still want Petrie making trades after today is another question entirely). I'll still hold out some hope that we can package Salmons with either our draft picks next year or Casspi (or even both) to take on a contract that another team may be trying to shed. Someone like, Iguodala perhaps. Not saying that type of move is imminent, but it's the type of move we could do to save the offseason.

I'm just glad we didnt go through with that Parker + RJ package. That would've sucked up far too much of the cap and made it hard to just resign Dally and Thornton.

That said, I'm really looking forward to Petrie's press conference as he tries to justify this trade. It'll be a modern day Herculean labor, to be sure.
 
Theoretically:

1) plenty of room to resign Dalembert
2) plenty of room to resign Thornton

3) yes, this COULD be the only move we make at SF. But it depedsd on how much we have given up on the young guys we have. With Honeycutt I suspect we stand pat, ship a body out. But it does not necessarily preclude us signing another SF. You need an 8 man rotation. And if I told you that the 8 man was Cousins, Daly, Thompson, Salmons, AK47, Thornton, Evans, Jimmer with spot work from Cisco...that wouldn't be so bad. Young long kids at the end of the bench in Donte, Honeycutt and Whiteside. We could still afford to do that if we wanted to. Actually...would need another backup guard. Anyway...

4) or just little things. Strong 4th guard to protect against a Jimmer-flop. Stronger 4th big.
 
Too bad the trophy is in Dallas.


(I'm getting a feeling of Deja Vu - you?)
 
It will go into keeping Dalembert, and that means that this team as it stands, with Jimmer and Salmons, is either a playoff team, or we're in serious trouble.
 
raise your hand if you really think AK-47, Prince, or Battier would have signed with Sacramento as a FA to finish out their career.
 
RookieOfTheDay said:
Doesn't change the fact that Gasol>>>Dalembert.
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I like Gasol. And yet he's maybe a single > at best. You constantly losing the forest for the trees when it comes to Dalembert aside, he is better at every single aspect of defense than Gasol. And Gasol is better at every single aspect of offense than Dalembert. Well our team needs the defense. And its not as if Gasol is a dominant offensive player. In fact Daly is clsoer to being a dominant defender/rebounder (annual Top 10s in rebs/48 and blks) than Gasol is to being a dominant offensive guy. And so for us its fairly easy. We have lots of scorers. More today than we had even yesterday. Defensive roleplayers are going to be particularly key for our progress now.
 
Bricklayer said:
I like Gasol. And yet he's maybe a single > at best. You constantly losing the forest for the trees when it comes to Dalembert aside, he is better at every single aspect of defense than Gasol. And Gasol is better at every single aspect of offense than Dalembert. Well our team needs the defense. And its not as if Gasol is a dominant offensive player. In fact Daly is clsoer to being a dominant defender/rebounder (annual Top 10s in rebs/48 and blks) than Gasol is to being a dominant offensive guy. And so for us its fairly easy. We have lots of scorers. More today than we had even yesterday. Defensive roleplayers are going to be particularly key for our progress now.
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Gasol is no slouch on defense though. 1.7 BPG last season. That's why i think he's a better all around more balanced player than Dalembert.
 
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6685360/page/2/grantland-nba-draft-lottery-preview
BIGGEST WEAKNESS: DEFENSE AT THE RIM

HoopData's numbers suggest that the average team converted 64.1 percent of their shots taken at the rim. The Kings allowed opposing teams to convert on 70.1 percent of those shots, the worst rate in the league. In five years of shot location data available, nobody has come within even a percentage point of the Kings' performance last year. The difference between that gruesome conversion rate and league average would have been about 2.9 points per game for Sacramento last year. We're being exceedingly simplistic here, but if you subtract 2.9 points from the opposing total at the end of each Kings game last year, their record improves by five wins. And that's just league average! Imagine if they actually got good at the whole defense thing.
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We simply cannot afford to lose Dalembert. Our defense was bad last year with him, now imagine it without him! Gasol (who is probly a better defender than he gets credit for) and Cousins would get murdered together. Both guys arent nearly mobile enough to guard the quicker bigs.
 
Showtime said:
So did having LA and Miami lay down.
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Whihc would be a much better argument if basically every other champion of the past two decades hadn't had a defenisve big as well. What's the common denominator betwen the Maverics, Lakers, Celtics, Heat, Spurs, Pistons, Lakers, Bulls, Rockets, Bulls since before there was an internet? They all, every single one of them, had major defenisve bigs starting for them. The funny and mysterious thing is just how few fans seem to understand the overwhelming importance of that player. The superstarred Heat were the only team in this year's Final Four who did not have one. And in the end it cost them as Chandler dominated the middle.
 
RookieOfTheDay said:
Gasol is no slouch on defense though. 1.7 BPG last season. That's why i think he's a better all around more balanced player than Dalembert.
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Its not that simple though. Gasol is a very good positional defender, like Perkins.

Guys like Dally, Chandler, DeAndre Jordan, Dwight Howard .. those guys are good positional defenders and weakside defenders because they are far more athletic than the Gasols/Perkins. They can get to spots faster to help or recover.

With Cousins, who isnt great athlete or defender, you need to pair him up with one of the more mobile defenders. Thats why Dalembert works. He's so long and such a fast leaper he can help Cousins and hold his own. A guy like Gasol could hold his own against bigger centers, but he wont be any help to Cousins or the rest of our team defense.
 
Entity said:
raise your hand if you really think AK-47, Prince, or Battier would have signed with Sacramento as a FA to finish out their career.
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This. Just because we have the cash doesn't mean the guys will want to sign. We've seen it time and time again. FA bypass Sac to go elsewhere no matter the $$$. You can't count on signing FA in Sac right now with the lousy record and arena uncertainty.
 
While I understand many folks want to have Dally's defense back for seasons to come, I still hope we at least consider Marc Gasol as a legitimate free agent option. I really enjoy watching him play and he seems to really bring some leadership skills.
 
Bricklayer said:
I like Gasol. And yet he's maybe a single > at best. You constantly losing the forest for the trees when it comes to Dalembert aside, he is better at every single aspect of defense than Gasol. And Gasol is better at every single aspect of offense than Dalembert. Well our team needs the defense. And its not as if Gasol is a dominant offensive player. In fact Daly is clsoer to being a dominant defender/rebounder (annual Top 10s in rebs/48 and blks) than Gasol is to being a dominant offensive guy. And so for us its fairly easy. We have lots of scorers. More today than we had even yesterday. Defensive roleplayers are going to be particularly key for our progress now.
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The only FA you could possibly get would be a defensive role player now. What FA in their right mind with any shooting capability would come to Sacto now? As it is, it's going to be a knife fight between Tyreke, Cousins, Thornton, Salmons and Jimmer to get the ball and fire away. If Dally does resign, the only
shots he'll be getting will be from offensive rebounds.
 
kingster said:
the only fa you could possibly get would be a defensive role player now. What fa in their right mind with any shooting capability would come to sacto now? As it is, it's going to be a knife fight between tyreke, cousins, thornton, salmons and jimmer to get the ball and fire away. If dally does resign, the only
shots he'll be getting will be from offensive rebounds.
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lol
 
Try to get de andre jordan... or steal gasol from memphis and watch a behemoth front court of cousins and gasol.. backed by whiteside. NO easy layups!
 
Entity said:
raise your hand if you really think AK-47, Prince, or Battier would have signed with Sacramento as a FA to finish out their career.
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I don't think Battier will command anything close to a max contract that AK or Prince would be asking. I think he's more of a $7 million/per type. So...that being said, we could theoretically re-sign Dalembert(although I think he's warming to the idea of playing in either NY or Miami)but we could re-sign him and Thornton and sign Battier. I really don't think Petrie is done...I still think he has one more impact trade in him this Summer.(not involving Salmons). So...our lineup right now:

C-(Dalembert??)
PF-Cousins
SF-Salmons
SG-Thornton
PG-Evans

Bench:
Jimmer
JT
Omri(barring a trade)
Donte(again, barring trade)
Cisco(see above)
Honeycutt
Isaiah Thomas

Better than we were last year?? I say yes.
 
oh i have not doubt we had the $ money to sign either of those guys. I am saying they are all looking for somewhere to end their careers and I don't believe Sactown would be their choice. but yeah better than last year i just hope we get Daly back. I'd also like a Darnell Jackson upgrade.
 
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