(08-22-2022, 08:07 PM)ItsGoTime Wrote: I’d rather have SGA and OGA in 1 year than Bertans, THJ, Powell, RB, Maxi and SD. Wouldn’t you?
No way. That's wasting years of Luka's career, constantly trying to assemble the talent to get to be a full competitor while casting aside the same sort of needed talent as you do so. You're stuck with a $130M roster, year after year being limited by the cap, and you need far more talent to have enough to compete. The $165M they have right now is the right ballpark, if they didn't have a couple of bloated salaries, and even with those mistakes they're maybe there.
Your plan is getting rid of talent now and becoming dependent on team later being willing to trade you what you need but that's so far out of your control -- eg if OKC says "We have no interest, we need SGA to grow with our young roster" and TOR says "We're only trading OG for an elite center, and RB means nothing to us" then you're at a dead end.
By the way, I never "ignored" the numbers you suggested, but instead put them into the context of what they REALLY are -- ie what else it would REALLY cost, beyond the RW trade, to get any cap room beyond the MLE that you'd have anyway. Once you do realistic extensions for Maxi, Bullock, and Wood, there is no cap room to play with - you're an MLE team. Otherwise, you're stripping down the roster, and doing so means less talent and years to find a piece here and there to replace the very pieces you had and fiddle-farted away. That's not getting ahead, it's going backwards. We don't have years to wait -- the Luka Era has already started.