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JohnWallace44
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Cosmic - Lee and Nate are gone or else the 2010 plan is gone... so Lee and Nate are gone.
As far as looking at the current roster, this is not Isiah time. I repeat, not Isiah.
What that means is that our "assets" that people are pointing to... aren't really assets that we can spend. Its like having a life insurance policy. You can't use it to buy a boat.
We can't take Al Harrington and flip him for a player because the incoming player can't have a contract through 2010. If the incoming player has an expiring deal, why would someone trade us a better player in that scenario? That's fantasy.
The best that you're going to do is a deal for a high-risk guy like T-Mac, or a salary dump combo deal like the reported Q-Darko-late pick deal.
All of that means that the roster is static. These guys aren't going anywhere. Jeffries and Curry are toxic assets in terms of their deals. We can't move the other guys for big time players.
What are you left with?
You're left with this pick, whatever you can get with Mobley's deal, and the 2010 pipedream and what's left of it when we get there.
So let's assume the Darko deal and your remaining roster is;
#8 Pick
#27 Pick (Grizz)
Duhon - expiring
Al Jr - expiring
Hughes - expiring
Darko - expiring
Jeffries - 2 yrs remaining
Curry - 2 yrs remaining
The Mayor - 2 years
Gallo - 3 years
+DLeague scraps
So what you see here is that for 2009-10, the roster needs a big boost to be able to compete at all, and specifically in the backcourt.
Now, in 2010-11 when we're supposed to sign some big time players and we'll see about that, but we're only going to have room to sign one and a half of those Max guys, and the rest of the roster will have to be filled out by exception level players, and at the end of that year we'll have to make a decision on Chandler.
You know, so yeah, let's just pick Curry. He makes me feel warm and fuzzy and I know his dad was a good guy. Go with the Charlotte, Minny model of building your franchise. Its worked for them.
This pick has to be taken very seriously for a multitude of reasons. We will only control Gallo, the Rooster and this pick as low cost, potentially impact players through July 2011, and hopefully we won't be picking this high again.
This pick also has to get us to a point talent wise where we can at least tread water from a competition standpoint. If we go through 2009-10 and win 20 games without getting a pick for our trouble, then MikeD and Donnie are going to be on some serious shaky ground and if Wade and LeBron have resigned by that point... ouch, they might just quit.
There are a handful of guys available to us or combinations of players if we can make the Memphis trade that I think have the potential to bridge the gap, get us through next year with 35 or so wins and point the way forward so that in 2010 maybe we can add a star, that would be great, or if they've resigned, we can add pieces and the Mayor, The Rooster and this year's pick(s) can be the core that will still make us a player in the East.
Curry can't do those things in my mind. He can't give you plus talent on both ends of the floor like Derozan, Evans and Holiday are capable of.
Derozan first and the best of the point guards late with Memphis' pick, bringing back Darko in the move is the best way to fill the holes at the 1,2,5 spots and take advantage of the makeup in of the draft.
Seems like its almost too easy, but there's probably only a 50/50 shot that Derozan will be there.
Alan Hahn:
Nate Robinson has been on a ridonkulous scoring tear lately (remember when he couldn't hit Jerome James with a Big Mac in early January?)
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