I wish we could sign pascal siakam next off season. He’d be a huge defensive upgrade and two way player. We need a defensive upgrade so bad.
Yeah yeah I know, he’s going to be expensive. And he turns 30 in April. Don’t want to give a guy 40m+ a year until he’s 34. Do we want a 33 year old eating up about 30% of our salary cap? However, does the positive outweigh the negative?
Also, I know davion Mitchell for the kings has been getting less playing time. Would love to trade for him in some kind of deal. Could shore up the backup PG and be a rugged defender who takes care of the ball.
Edit: I do feel these guys begin to address our roster problem by adding some rugged players who play defense and grab boards (siakam).
So we would swap Bridges out for Siakam and Mitchell in over a bargain bin pg2. I could consider that. Bridges isn’t going to be cheap, so Siakam wouldn’t be that much of an increased salary. I’d also like to add a defensive sg2 too. You know, a Cody Martin type, only healthy
I don’t think there’s going to be a huge market for miles Bridges. I’m doubting teams are going to be falling over themselves to throw 30m+ at a convicted DV felon who also violated his probation with more threats of violence.
If anything, unfortunately, I see Bridges signing a team friendly deal with Charlotte that has a TON of behavior related clauses in it. Also, bridges will get his larger money in a contract by meeting behavior incentives and playing incentives for meeting various numbers or awards. But his base salary will be lower than you think.
And I know siakam is going to really cost $$$, but I’m viewing it as a win now sort of move. In terms of not wasting melo’s prime in his mid twenties.
I think attacking the obvious problems of this team (defense, lack of physicality, rebounding, two way play) to help Melo as he begins his prime is the way to go. I don’t want to waste melo’s best basketball.
If not Siakam, maybe sign Tobias Harris to a shorter deal.
I think this would be the best case scenario, but I’m doubtful we’ll get any sort of team friendly deal. Miles’ camp wasn’t willing to concede to any discounts this past off-season when his value was as low as it ever was, coming of the legal issue and not having played in over a year. Now that he’s back and playing at a high level, I expect he’ll have a fairly robust market, provided there are no lingering legal issues. Their position is going to be that he’s done his time and now he deserves to be paid the full value of his worth. I believe the risk any team would assume by bringing him on would merit a discount, but his agent will be asking for top dollar. And because his skill-set is ideal to fit a number of teams, some team is likely going to be willing to pay whatever he’s asking.
I am also curious what type of behavioral incentives could even be written into his contract. While it’s completely reasonable that any team would want to go that route, I wonder if the CBA might have some stipulations about that. I haven’t taken the time to wade through it, but it just seems like that’s something the players’ assoc. might have weighed in on.
Indeed. I think that was assumed in the conversation I joined. I think a clean house in the front office, so nothing vested in Miles the player, will surely signal a goodbye to him. Plus, he’ll chase every cent he possibly can from the Hornets. With his choice of agency, there’s clearly no thought to ‘I owe this lot a fair deal’.
I do wonder if trading rozier to the kings would work. To bring Davion mitchell to Charlotte along with Kevin huerter. Huerter is owed 17m per season for the next 2 seasons I believe. That’s pretty manageable and he’s a hard worker, good shooter. The kings also get rozier for one more season as well. I’m sure there will need to be other details to work out for that trade to work.
Say we let Miles walk. And complete the exchange i mentioned above…and take the plunge for siakam. Which could work cap-wise since we let bridges walk instead of pay him 20-30m
Little off topic, but got the notification Fred Whitfield is leaving the organization. That’s big news. I bet we will start to see some changes and more people leave as the transition from the Jordan era continues. Whitfield did some good work on the business side of things.
They wouldn’t trade Huerter. He is very important to them. Monk and Rozier fill the same need. They may take Hayward but i couldn’t get any hayward for huerter and mitchell iterations to work because of salary cap constraints.
That’s the thing about trading guys, getting the salaries to work. I’m all for trading Hayward and/or Rozier, but salary matching will be tough, especially with Hayward.
