What would be great, in my opinion at least, would be for Cliff to do a good enough job for the rest of the season such that Schnotkin/new GM don’t feel forced to find another HC. If there’s one they really want, go for him, but if there isn’t, a viable fallback option of Cliff would be great to have. He has work to do to make himself considered viable, but at least now he has a semblance of an NBA roster to do it with.
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I’d like to keep Cliff around in some sort of role on staff. Obviously not the coach.
I’m shockingly stoked for Micic. Guy can really pass. He looks like he’d fill in for Melo just fine.
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I’m with @powellrmp and @Chef, in that Cliff would be great/good to have on staff, but not at HC. That said, if the team plays cohesive, effective, two-way, team ball to see the season out it could at least mean Schnotkin/new GM aren’t forced to commit long term to a best of a bad bunch most of candidates. Absolutely, sign someone you really rate, but another year of a Cliff who has ticked all the above boxes would be acceptable.
He does have the look of high-end backup PG about him, on this one ‘career high in everything’ game. Two more years at $8m per is a very good deal if he can regularly reproduce something close to last night.
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Guys, don’t get hung up on we were playing the injury plagued grizzlies or that we were running an ultra condensed game plan.
Per Cliff-This new group of guys hasn’t even practiced with the team yet. They haven’t even practiced together. Cliff was grinning during the postgame media availability-as much as Cliff is capable of grinning.
Oh, and I love that Cliff went with the 5 out look in the fourth quarter. The last 6:00 I think.
Micic/Cody/Miles/Grant/Bertans
And then Brandon Miller` subbed in for Bertans.
Micic/Miller/Cody/Miles/Williams
This is where I am. I’m tired of losing and I’m tired of trying to lose, or feeling like losing is the best path forward. We now have most of the pieces that will presumably be here for the foreseeable future and the sense of hope and enthusiasm is palpable. I don’t know how many games we’ll win the rest of the year, but if we can be competitive, get some wins down the stretch and create some momentum that we can carry into next year, I think that’s far more valuable than a couple of draft spots.
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That is particularly true for this years draft. It’s not great draft, and certainly not a top heavy draft.
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I do know that 25 min of micic makes me inclined to draft the Serbian pg
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I’m interested in Dalton Knecht out if Tennessee. Guy can really shoot. And is 6’6, and athletic.
Could we offer Cleveland 2 1sts this years and the Miami 1st for Mitchell. Pair him with Lamelo nice back court. Micic to back up Melo and Mann/Curry to back up Mitchell.
Last night got me to excited I’m starting to actually think about winning lol
Well I think the plan should be signing klay Thompson this summer. Then, klay will magically revert back into the old klay while in charlotte. Instead of the current klay who has lost two steps and is struggling to accept the reality of aging. Then, Steph curry will see this and naturally want to go back home to Charlotte to close out his career and be with his buddy Klay.
Oh, we also will draft Bronny. Which obviously means that Lebron will want to close out his career in charlotte with his son. Because the hornets have Melo, Steph, klay, and miller-we’re obviously over the salary cap. So Lebron agrees to come on the MLE because he wants to play with his son before he retires.
These old geezers who are in the very twilight in their careers have just enough young talent (Melo, miller, mark) around them to win another Finals (or two).
Oh, and Micic wins 6th man of the year. Or something.
Sounds good. Lebron at 39 has still got it as evidenced with how he played aginst us last week.
Obviously Steph has not lost anything by the look of his buzzer beating 3 last night.
It’d be the hottest ticket in the NBA and certainly put the Hornets back on the map again.
What a dream!!!
Asking again because admittedly I fully do not understand most of the technical/monetary mess behind many of the moves in the NBA…
Why did we take on Lowry from the Heat and then buy him out? Was it basically we bought a first round pick for sending them Rozier and paying for Lowry? Did we get any cap room or did it give us anything cap wise or other?
The first round pick and the expiring contract vs the 3 years and 65m remaining in Terry’s
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I bet the spectrum center is going to be bumping Monday night.
That’ll be a test. The Pacers are solid. Should be fun.