12-04-2024, 12:54 PM
As far as long-term strategy goes I´d be very hesitant to let Grimes, Washington, Gafford, Lively or Marshall go. Good contracts are always tradeable. These players are all young enough to be moveable on good deals. Furthermore I feel all of them can be rotational players on a championship team. So you get them on good deals, you should keep them all.
Our focus should probably be on finding the Kyrie replacement. Assuming he can do it at this level for another 2-3 years, you need to start looking now. In three years Luka will be in the prime of his career and it would be nice, if he had a 2nd All-Star next to him. If the player comes from the draft, he´ll need 2-3 years to develop into that player.
That will be very difficult considering that we won´t draft in the lottery and great players are hard to get. Maybe we´ll have to settle for a Sexton/Simons type first next summer that can at least play to JET´s level and then hope they either improve further or we can use them in an upgrade.
I have never been a fan of sleepy eyes, but at 28-30M a year, which is Klay/Kleber S&T territory next summer, you could probably talk me into Ingram. I´d even consider Zion, IF those rumours about 1-2 first round picks are true. Luckily you have all the early termination options and his salary is not that bad against the projected cap increase.
The amount of injuries they have in New Orleans speaks to a level of incompetence in their medical department imho, so maybe (weight issue of Zion aside) there is actually a chance you can fix them, especially Ingram. First 200 games as a Laker he only missed five games.
Our focus should probably be on finding the Kyrie replacement. Assuming he can do it at this level for another 2-3 years, you need to start looking now. In three years Luka will be in the prime of his career and it would be nice, if he had a 2nd All-Star next to him. If the player comes from the draft, he´ll need 2-3 years to develop into that player.
That will be very difficult considering that we won´t draft in the lottery and great players are hard to get. Maybe we´ll have to settle for a Sexton/Simons type first next summer that can at least play to JET´s level and then hope they either improve further or we can use them in an upgrade.
I have never been a fan of sleepy eyes, but at 28-30M a year, which is Klay/Kleber S&T territory next summer, you could probably talk me into Ingram. I´d even consider Zion, IF those rumours about 1-2 first round picks are true. Luckily you have all the early termination options and his salary is not that bad against the projected cap increase.
The amount of injuries they have in New Orleans speaks to a level of incompetence in their medical department imho, so maybe (weight issue of Zion aside) there is actually a chance you can fix them, especially Ingram. First 200 games as a Laker he only missed five games.