2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[StepBackJay]

Well make your case. Which team gives THJ those $20M per year. Don´t just throw a number around.

Any of the rebuilding teams want to block minutes from younger players to re-live #1 option Hardaway in New York? If those teams want some veteran leadership for their youngsters, they´ll overpay DeRozan, Lowry or Conley, who have shown their leadership skills as #1/#2 options on multiple 50 win teams.

So that leaves the contenders. You think Toronto or Miami prioritize THJ in any of their scenarios?

I could see Mavs doing some kind of 2 year 30 mil deal or something. The dollar amount means less when a) you already have his bird rights and b) you are short on years. We have seen the Knicks hand out these 2/30 deals lately altho a lot of those are basically 1 yr deals with a TO in the 2nd year that they have no intention of picking up. If you did 2 for 30 or 3/45 with a TO in that last year I think that is a team friendly deal and still good enough money for THJ. Mavs love large expirings so THJ would essentially be a large expiring that second year. Mavs don't really need cap space after 2021 until KP's contract expires so they really just need movable contracts until then.

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*Barf*

Are we seriously trying to talk ourselves into Scary Terry? Look I get it. Roizer goes to a crap team and puts up somewhat reasonable numbers in big minutes. But Roizer isn't getting 15 shots a game here. He isn't running the offense. He's going back to his role in Boston at best, and in that role he's averaged 7ppg on 38/35/77. That's worse than what Brunson is giving us right now. 

Add on top Roizer's 19mil he's due this year and 18 mil next, I'm puzzled why we would entertain a Roizer for Brunson swap. 

I'm more interested in flipping THJ and using Brunson as the sweetener. My B U D D Y keys are actually broken on my keyboard from how much I've typed it over the summer, but Buddy seems to me the best singular upgrade. 

Kings also have Corey Joesph as a good vet that has played under Pop for many years who would most likely thrive under Carlisle's system coming off the bench. The money would make it tricky.

The Mavs could easily trade THJ+Brunson for Buddy and call it a day, but if we want Joesph we'd need to add at least an outgoing salary of 5 mil. When you start adding more salaries to a trade, the less likely it'll actually work out. The only realistic one I could muster was

Holmes+Joesph+Buddy for THJ+Powell+Brunson works on paper, but I doubt the Kings would be interested in that at all.

I like Buddy a lot. Are we sure THJ + Brunson gets it done? I don't think Buddy has negative value so they might like a better asset than Brunson and future cap savings.