But here we have Brandon Jennings who has had some great moments - kid had a 56pt game against Steph Curry a few years ago. He's bounced around a little because of injury. Seems like a tough NY point guard, who is also smart and savvy.

I really love Brandon Jennings, have always thought he could be a great PG in this league. I think he could truly Blossom here. Particularly under Hornacek.

He's still only 26, buried in Orlando. He played great in Detroit before his achilles injury. I think he's a really smart young kid who in the right setting could flourish. If we had Rambis, I would not be on board with Jennings coming here. If we have Hornacek? SIGN ME UP. Horny developed Dragic, Bledsoe, Knight, Booker into true backcourt weapons. Jennings is a lefty like Dragic.

Look at Dragic's trajectory with Hornacek - the season before Hornacek took over in Phoenix Dragic was at 14ppg 44%fg. His first Hornacek season? 20ppg 51% fg. One big reason for Dragic's success? Playing with sweet shooting big man Channing Frye. Frye took 5 three point shots a game for PHX and really opened up the interior for Dragic and Bledsoe. They ran a lot of motion cuts and backcuts, which I'm sure Phil took notice of.

I think you put Jennings here with the sweet shooting big man KP and Melo playing a super-charged Markief Morris role... we could build an even better version of that Phoenix team that won 48 games in 2013-4. I think the ceiling would be much higher than that PHX team because KP is far better than Frye and Melo is far better than Morris.

I'd give Jennings a "show me" deal of 2 years - team option in year two. $10-12M in year one. $12M TEAM option in year two.

Sign Bazemore with the rest of the money. Or maybe Courtney Lee. Keep Afflalo and Dwill as 6th men for continuity. If Afflalo wants to start and won't sign up to be a sixth man, tell him that's fine, thanks for your service. See you around.

The roster below has the sort of guard depth you need to really compete in the NBA these days. Allows Afflalo or Bazemore to slide down to the SF spot at times and play Melo 4, KP at 5.

PG - Jennings / Grant / Wroten
SG - Bazemore / Afflalo / Galloway
SF - Melo / Lance
PF - KP / DWill
C - Rolo / Hernangomez

That'd be the 12 I'd roll with. That team is definitely a playoffs team in the East, maybe a 4/5 seed if KP, Grant, Jennings all blossom and click.

compulsive behavior!

crzymdups wrote:

mreinman wrote:

compulsive behavior!

This'll be my only Jennings thread. I just thought he deserved as much face time as Seth Curry.

can you put in the salaries that you would pay them?

crzymdups wrote:

mreinman wrote:

crzymdups wrote:

mreinman wrote:

compulsive behavior!

This'll be my only Jennings thread. I just thought he deserved as much face time as Seth Curry.

can you put in the salaries that you would pay them?

I don't know what to say about Bazemore - I tend to think we can't actually get him.

But I put my salary for Jennings. Though I see what you did there.

Would you rather give Seth Curry 4yr/$40M or Brandon Jennings two years $24M, with the second year a team option?

I would say def seth and if we don't like him, we stretch the loser!

gunsnewing wrote:Crzy the answer to our problems is right under your nose. And it's one of our favorites. It's not Jennings.

It's Lin. Cheaper and infinitely more basketball IQ

I don't see him coming back here for a variety of reasons. 1) Dolan 1A) Melo

F KP

F Carmelo

G Crabbe 4 years 58mm

G Curry 4 years 32mm)

C Maker (draft pick # 25 acquired restricted 1 to 17 (2019)

F Derrick Williams

F Lance Thomas 2 years 6mm

G Jerian Grant

G Aaron Affalo

C Oquinn

F Willy G

G Tony Wroten G

G Michael Gbinjie G acquired pick 36 for 2 futures 4 years 4mm

G Bryn Forbes acquired pick 48 cash 4 years 4mm

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G Derrick Jones (acquired pick 57 cash D league for 2017)

waived Calderon Early Galloway--obviously I cant speculate if affalo or Williams will opt out so this is until they do

Thesis--compete hard now but with 100% eye for the future. Build assets

BRIGGS wrote:C-LOpez

F KP

F Carmelo

G Crabbe 4 years 58mm

G Curry 4 years 32mm)

C Maker (draft pick # 25 acquired restricted 1 to 17 (2019)

F Derrick Williams

F Lance Thomas 2 years 6mm

G Jerian Grant

G Aaron Affalo

C Oquinn

F Willy G

G Tony Wroten G

G Michael Gbinjie G acquired pick 36 for 2 futures 4 years 4mm

G Bryn Forbes acquired pick 48 cash 4 years 4mm

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G Derrick Jones (acquired pick 57 cash D league for 2017)

waived Calderon Early Galloway--obviously I cant speculate if affalo or Williams will opt out so this is until they do

Thesis--compete hard now but with 100% eye for the future. Build assets

nixluva wrote:

EnySpree wrote:Jerian Grant and Wroten are the only young pgs that should be growing with Horny. Brandon Jennings should be classified as a journeyman bench player. Injuries prone and alot of miles.

I get the vibe that Phil is really focused on big guards late in this draft. I think he feels he can get one that would add the 3pt shooting and D we need. In FA I think he's thinking the same way. Big Guard, SF that can pass and shoot. Jerian and Wroten can push the ball and get to the rim. They can work on their shooting but if we add better SG's that will make it all work IMO.

It well keep Sasha, Calderon and Gallo off the court too. Hope Affalo doesn't come back

BRIGGS wrote:C-LOpez

F KP

F Carmelo

G Crabbe 4 years 58mm

G Curry 4 years 32mm)

C Maker (draft pick # 25 acquired restricted 1 to 17 (2019)

F Derrick Williams

F Lance Thomas 2 years 6mm

G Jerian Grant

G Aaron Affalo

C Oquinn

F Willy G

G Tony Wroten G

G Michael Gbinjie G acquired pick 36 for 2 futures 4 years 4mm

G Bryn Forbes acquired pick 48 cash 4 years 4mm

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G Derrick Jones (acquired pick 57 cash D league for 2017)

waived Calderon Early Galloway--obviously I cant speculate if affalo or Williams will opt out so this is until they do

Thesis--compete hard now but with 100% eye for the future. Build assets

All we can do is try. I'm not interested in Branden Jennings. I like currys smarts and Crabbe's touch and size. I'd even go higher on Crabbe. I'd be willing to go as high as 16 for Crabbe and 8 for Curry. In the draft I'm looking at 7-1 6-7. 6-7. 6-3 which would make us one of the biggest teams in the league and would give us a plethora of young legs. I want guys to stay together long term. In essence this free agency is a big one. That's why I'm willing to pay more At some point Portland might just say we can't do that we have to max mccolum and lillard.