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So whats the plan moving forward?

SuperJTheGreat

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carpanfan96 Grand Master

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I just don't see how 1 defensive minded guy makes the difference.....

All the winning teams have players with similar skillsets. If you are so set on D but also want to win, it looks like you'll need more defensive minded players.

It never seems to work when there's a minority on the court. And yes I'm saying as far as D goes, mkg is all we have.

We either need to revamp with defensive players or get more offense. You can't just pile players in.

Yea deng can play. I was also looking to the future though.

You realize that by getting Deng you are sacrificing D for O, right? Your crazy if you think he won't start at SF and take mkgs mins....

You basically argued against my point and then proved it.

Deng is also a defensive player, but with better offense. Hence him working. It's definitely not sacrificing defense for offense when he's not really all that great offensively shooting wise.

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The ballsy move is to go all in on Stephenson.  I have no idea how he will react to getting a big payday with an increased role, but he is talented enough to be a difference maker.

 

It would require a near-max contract and most of our cap flexibility, but it would really increase the team's potential ceiling.

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The ballsy move is to go all in on Stephenson. I have no idea how he will react to getting a big payday with an increased role, but he is talented enough to be a difference maker.

It would require a near-max contract and most of our cap flexibility, but it would really increase the team's potential ceiling.

I like him. Great all around player. I'd be interested in seeing it happen.

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The ballsy move is to go all in on Stephenson.  I have no idea how he will react to getting a big payday with an increased role, but he is talented enough to be a difference maker.

 

It would require a near-max contract and most of our cap flexibility, but it would really increase the team's potential ceiling.

 

I don't think we can pay him the max.

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I don't think we can pay him the max.

 

We've definitely got the cap space.  We have about $45 mil in contracts on the books for next season, assuming the salary cap is about $60 mil we have just enough to give a max contract to someone coming off their rookie contract

 

The max contract you can get increases the more time you spend in the league, so we dont have enough right now to offer the max to a guy like Melo.  For example, John Wall's max extension this year starts at $13.7 mil while the max contract Chris Paul signed last year pays him $18.7 this season

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We've definitely go the cap space.  We have about $45 mil in contracts on the books for next season, assuming the salary cap is about $60 mil we have just enough to give a max contract to someone coming off their rookie contract

 

The max contract you can get increases the more time you spend in the league, so we dont have enough right now to offer the max to a guy like Melo.  For example, John Wall's max extension this year starts at $13.7 mil while the max contract Chris Paul signed last year pays him $18.7 this season

 

Roster for next year 

 

PG: Kemba Walker

SG: Gerald Henderson, Gary Neal, Jeff Taylor

SF: Michael Kidd-Gilchrist

PF: Josh McRoberts, Cody Zeller

C: Al Jefferson, Bismack Biyombo, Brendan Haywood

 

We could use two point guards (?,?), two small forwards (CDR and ?), and either another power forward or another shooting guard.

 

We have currently have $45,022,739 on the books for next year and the cap is set to be at $62,100,000 leaving us with $17,077,761 in cap space and $30,677,261 to work with until we hit the tax line.

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Long shot, but here is my ideal starting 5..

PG: Kemba Walker

SG: PJ Hairston

SF: Carmelo Anthony

PF: Cody Zeller

C: Big Al

That lineup can score for sure, but where's the p&R defense coming from? We'd definitely see a bunch of 100-110 games that end in losses.

It's probably a 45-50 win team that would get beat in the playoffs when defense ramps up.

Plus melo would play the 4 if he came here just because of the p&r defense

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PG: Kemba-Shabazz Napier SG: Hendo-Neal SF: MKG-CDR PF: Melo-Zeller C: Big Al-Biz Big Al and Melo and Kemba will score while MKG and Hendo play solid D. Napier Neal and CDR score off the bench while Biz plays defensive stopper and Zeller brings the hustle Sent from my SPH-L710 using CarolinaHuddle mobile app

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