07-09-2021, 12:26 AM
(07-08-2021, 08:13 PM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: The opportunity to spend a poop-ton of money and the opportunity to run a more aggressive switching D are the things that most excite me when I'm on a Trade-KP day. I'm not sure I want a pure space deal. The reason is if you don't get any kind of returning asset, here is your team:
Luka/Brunson
/Green
DFS/
/Maxi
/Powell
You need three starters and a bench player who can create their own shot. I can make it work with $65mm to spend, but everything has to fall into place. Need a center, so $18mm for Holmes. Need a star, so pencil in $25mm-$28mm. That leaves $19mm-$22mm. You can maybe get another high level starter or bring back THJ, but you need another high level bench guy who is your sixth man and slots all the rest of the bench guys in their proper role. It would be hard to do both for that money.
The point I'm making is I'd like something I can use back even in a pure salary dump. It could be as little as PJ Washington. At least you've filled a slot cheaply and still have almost a poop-ton of space left. If you end up having to trade match, I'd like to increase cap space by the legal limit (so now you have about $40mm to get Holmes and a $22mm guy). But, I probably need two useful players back in a deal...that fifth starter and that sixth man. If I knew all the guys I want would just come because I wish it to be so, then great. But there are 29 other teams looking for the same things I'm looking for.
I completely agree with this. If you a trading KP for air, it better be part of a S&T or you already have some moves in place. There are not that many options this offseason, and dumping KP so you have 60+ mil in cap space would be a disaster if nobody wants to come here. If you sign one of the big ones (Kawhi, Ball, Collins, Conley, Lowry, DeRozan) then you can trade him for air and get a center and a wing (there are multiple options here), but if you can't land any of those guys, you are probably better off with KP than over spending on a bunch of role players.