VCoug wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:Looks like a .450 team

My thought as well though they could go over .500 in the East. Nevertheless, it's not a team with a chance of even getting to the ECF let alone winning a championship.

I would agree, but then again who foresaw Dallas being this good? Or indeed Dallas being as good as they were last season? Or even in the year they actually won the championship. Or that the Hawks would be as good as they've been these past two years. Sometimes teams are better than the sum of their parts. Not sure if that team would be, but you can't always tell.

smackeddog wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:Looks like a .450 team

You're quick to poo poo everything, but why don't you share with us your winning formula- who do you want us to sign that is realistic?

VCoug wrote:

smackeddog wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:Looks like a .450 team

You're quick to poo poo everything, but why don't you share with us your winning formula- who do you want us to sign that is realistic?

I can't speak for Bonn but my belief is that there's nobody we can realistically sign that's going make us a contender. There are a few possible game changers that will be free agents this Summer, Kawhi and Marc Gasol chief among them, but Kawhi's a RFA and SAS will match any offer for him and Gasol has no reason to leave Memphis for NY.

My best case scenario is to offer a max deal to Jimmy Butler and hope that Chicago doesn't match. If Chicago does match offer it to Reggie Jackson, who I'm not that big a fan of but I'm hoping he grows into his contract, and hope OKC doesn't match. Hopefully, we sign one of those guys and we throw the rest of our cap space, about $11M, to Tobias Harris and hope Orlando doesn't match. The problem is this doesn't make us a contender or put us all that close. We would need to draft one of the big name centers in the 1st round and hope he quickly develops into a superstar. Our lineup would, ideally, be Calderon-Butler-Harris-Melo-Okafor/Towns/Miles with Prigioni, JR, Shumpert, Hardaway, Early, and Aldrich off the bench (I'm assuming JR opts into his deal and we resign Shumpert). If Okafor/Towns/Miles pans out right away that's potentially a top 4 team in the crappy East. We then go into the Summer of 2016 with a good, young, improving team with potential and the cap jumps $20M or whatever it's going to jump, JR comes off the books, and we have a bunch more cap space to try and flesh out the rest of the roster.

By thy way, if we don't make the terrible Tyson trade this Summer we have more assets, more cap space, and have a better chance of fleshing out our roster.

No one we sign will make us a contender on paper but that's ok. You just need to sign the best players you can who fit and hope it comes together. It takes luck too. Dallas didn't have a championship team on paper, it just came together.

BigDaddyG wrote:

VCoug wrote:

smackeddog wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:Looks like a .450 team

You're quick to poo poo everything, but why don't you share with us your winning formula- who do you want us to sign that is realistic?

I can't speak for Bonn but my belief is that there's nobody we can realistically sign that's going make us a contender. There are a few possible game changers that will be free agents this Summer, Kawhi and Marc Gasol chief among them, but Kawhi's a RFA and SAS will match any offer for him and Gasol has no reason to leave Memphis for NY.

My best case scenario is to offer a max deal to Jimmy Butler and hope that Chicago doesn't match. If Chicago does match offer it to Reggie Jackson, who I'm not that big a fan of but I'm hoping he grows into his contract, and hope OKC doesn't match. Hopefully, we sign one of those guys and we throw the rest of our cap space, about $11M, to Tobias Harris and hope Orlando doesn't match. The problem is this doesn't make us a contender or put us all that close. We would need to draft one of the big name centers in the 1st round and hope he quickly develops into a superstar. Our lineup would, ideally, be Calderon-Butler-Harris-Melo-Okafor/Towns/Miles with Prigioni, JR, Shumpert, Hardaway, Early, and Aldrich off the bench (I'm assuming JR opts into his deal and we resign Shumpert). If Okafor/Towns/Miles pans out right away that's potentially a top 4 team in the crappy East. We then go into the Summer of 2016 with a good, young, improving team with potential and the cap jumps $20M or whatever it's going to jump, JR comes off the books, and we have a bunch more cap space to try and flesh out the rest of the roster.

By thy way, if we don't make the terrible Tyson trade this Summer we have more assets, more cap space, and have a better chance of fleshing out our roster.

I'd rather over Butler and Tobias Harris than Thad Young. There's no way I can Reggie Jackson the max. Hopefully, his demands are reasonable. $7 to $8M is what I would pencil him in for. Maybe we can pry Teague from Atlanta now that Schroeder is performing?

Yeah, I've liked Teague for a while now too and feel the same way you do about Jackson. But I still have a bit of a soft spot for George Hill. He's been injured all season and is grossly overpaid but his skillset is what we need on this team and we might be able to get him for cheap. Anyway, should be interesting to see how things work themselves out this offseason.

dk7th wrote:

smackeddog wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:Looks like a .450 team

You're quick to poo poo everything, but why don't you share with us your winning formula- who do you want us to sign that is realistic?

he is taking the "via negativa" which is the next best thing. bottom line he sees failure in your plan and he wants you to try again.

To be fair smackeddog didn't create the

Mediocre make believe lineup, although co-signed most of it

But revising it to fit Monroe in there at premium dollars

Deserves smackeddog to get the taste smacked[pun intended] out of his mouth

gunsnewing wrote:Yea Lopez & Thaddeus do nothing for me.

Where is our lottery pick?

I think Bonn is right although .450 might be generous for that that team. I would go .350 - .400

What good is Lopez without Alridge. Thaddeus? please

I'd rather have Thaddeus here than Calderon or Smith

That's how far I'd go though

dk7th wrote:

smackeddog wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:Looks like a .450 team

You're quick to poo poo everything, but why don't you share with us your winning formula- who do you want us to sign that is realistic?

he is taking the "via negativa" which is the next best thing. bottom line he sees failure in your plan and he wants you to try again.

Wasn't my proposal- however in looking at Becks suggestion, I did kind of realise that it's easy to criticise it, but I'm stumped as to what the heck to do this offseason. It's easy to blast suggestions, but I notice a lot of the most ardent critics are failing to put their money where their mouth is and suggest an actual realistic team they would assemble. Including me- ha!

smackeddog wrote:I think we should follow the Mavs strategy of rebuilding- they lucked out on the big fish last season, but made some astute reasonable signings instead, plus some vets to increase the IQ of the team, then they took advantage of trade opportunities and landed an overpaid free agent the following offseason, but it seems to be working out.

The problem with that is Dallas was rebuilding around a better overall team than what we have (MUCH better) and a better player in Dirk.

holfresh wrote:I don't think making a run at Thaddeous Young and Robin lopez was Phil's selling point to Melo last summer...

holfresh wrote:I don't think making a run at Thaddeous Young and Robin lopez was Phil's selling point to Melo last summer...

I think you do what you can to get him help like this while maintaining flexibility. You make sure you get back into the playoffs by adding some talent, then make sure to have the assets for a big move if needed. For example, put a team like what hid suggested on the floor, hope it mixed well, then you have the lottery selection to use for one last big move when needed. Instead of Thad young I would probably want tabias harris who will be a little more expensive but has better upside. Adding players like harris, lopez, and the lottery pick gets you younger, better, and still allows another big move when it comes up.