I’ve been saying that I’ve felt that PJ washington was the most likely person to be sent packing. Team seems very ready to move on from him, and I very much agree. I’ve been over PJ washington for awhile.
I think the surprise candidate to see moved is Cody Martin. Not as the salary piece, but as the talent upside that helps move a larger salary out for something Holmes-like incoming.
I’m very much not for Sabonis. We need more of an anchor. Like a Jarrett Allen, mo bamba. And i lean towards mo bamba because of his ability to shoot the three ball well. I’d rather have a center who has SOME shooting threat. But sabonis doesn’t help address the toughness, defense, or rebounding issues
I’d be pretty shocked to see Martin moved. JB wouldn’t allow it. Cody has earned too many coaches gold stars to be moved. Cody Martin has been coach broken by JB.
I get it, and the counterargument is a good one. There are ways to score other than from 3 or the line. He rebounds well, moves the ball well and has a good all-round game.
I’m not sure if I’m able to follow my own line of thinking here, so no idea how any of you will, but … I feel Sabonis in and Haywood out works from a balance perspective. Both need the ball to be at their best, and there’s still only one of those round things on the court at any one time. Both would serve as the calming secondary ball handler that Ball can hand it off to and take a mental breather. And I’d suggest we need what Sabonis would bring more than Haywood.
Second tangential thought, if you play Sabonis you need to pair length with him, so this season that could be Ubre & McDaniels, while next season it might be McDaniels, Thor, & Kai. It maybe be a case of one step back this season (might also be a wash but with more balance) for two steps forward next. A rotation of Ball, Terry, Miles, McDaniels & Sabonis with Bouknight, Cody, Thor, Kai and maybe Plumlee does have a bit of everything, though we’d be rolling the dice that McDaniels, Thor & Kai can play real minutes in this scenario.
PJ Washington is the guy I’d imagine that will get moved before The Plumdog or Cody Fartin. I’d like both of those to stick around next year as bench pieces as 7th/8th players. Plumlee, Martin, McDaniels is a nice bench. BUT, there’s reality and salary cap.
Logic says that if it looks like they won’t be able to re sign Cody Martin, to trade him at the deadline. But that means that JB would have to look at guys like Bouknight and JT Thor to play real minutes next year.
And we all know that JB would rather go blind than play young players like that.
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Agree that PJ is most likely and superfluous player, especially as we almost certainly won’t resign him, to be used/moved this deadline.
And I’d still rather get Bamba than Sabonis, as Sabonis would require some major roster reshuffling.
But it’s intriguing to consider the permutations and possibilities … until the deadline has passed and we’ve done f’all that is. I really, really hope that’s not the case.
I don’t see it, I don’t think most the league will have caught on to what Cody brings. Plus I feel like it’s no secret he seems to be on Borrego’s good side. But I guess you never know, I was not expecting us to let go of Devonte and we did.
Well it strikes me that if we are bringing in any sizeable contract that goes into next year, we took ourselves out of most paths to re-sign Cody to a realistic contract (assuming we prioritize Miles).
While PJ makes a ton of sense for duplication reasons, he’s at least under contract one more year and allows us flexibility (like with Jalen) to figure things out. And … Cody happens to be one of the more marketable things on the NBA market right now, a wing that can shoot, handle and defend at a cost of next to nil for the remainder of this year and I think he’d have Early Bird rights for someone to re-sign him if they chose.
Hornets history says we wont make a midseason trade and if we do it’s usually very small. And we get excited ever year then let down.
Yep… we’d rather just let our contracts expired and get nothing for said player.
Which is stupid asset management tbh
I put this in the game thread but why not Boucher from Toronto. I think he’d be perfect and probably wouldn’t cost a lot. I know most will disagree but he has way more upside and talent than we use now.
He’s a horrible defender unfortunately, which is why he’s never earned a regular place in the Toronto rotation.
I think he’s 30 now, so it’s not like there’s some untapped upside we haven’t seen.
I can’t believe he’s 30…. But I’d still take a flier on him.
I agree with this. This is basically what I’m talking about when I go on my old school big man rants. We don’t necessarily need more scoring, but we do need to be able to score differently. Easy baskets. High percentage shots. It used to be a thing.
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There’s the first big off the table…
I’m guessing a similar package from us would’ve have to of been Bouknight, PJ, Plumlee + a first