Cosmic wrote:I can't say I'm actually looking forward to the offseason. It's going to be interesting but it's going to be frustrating as hell as negotiations drag on or players get signed by other teams. Going to be a tough offseason to follow unless it goes real quick and real good for us. It's unlikely it will. I still think we'll do good things, but, probably won't be perfect.
We cant mess this offseason up.
Walsh trading those conditional picks in 2011 and 2012 makes the pill of overpaying Joe Johnson or someone else palatable. If we suck we have no incentive so overpaying for aging guys who will at least make us decent is ok with me at this point.
No way Atlanta pays Joe Johnson close to 20 million per even for 5 yrs. So worse case we overpay Johnson for 5 years and resign Lee. Now while that isnt the ideal summer we'd still might be able to package Curry and Chandler for Maggette and filler(Randolph, Turiaf, Wright). Now I know you probably hate Maggette but his deal is only 3 more years which is better than signing Chandler for 5-6 yrs.
We potentially run this lineup:
Turiaf
Lee
Gallo
Johnson
Douglas
Bench:
Walker
Giddens
Maggette
Bender
We'd be running a more offensive version of Atlanta's lineup.