07-17-2021, 08:56 AM
(07-16-2021, 10:13 PM)Tyler Wrote: He's common-law on that team already. No backing out now.
Some people may roll their eyes at this, but hear me out. I personally I think of THT as sorta similar to Chandler Parsons when he was in Houston. Not that he's a similar player, but that he's in a similar situation -- a really good young role player who you're tempted to throw money at based on his potential.
I’m going to need clarification Tyler. Am I married to my past posts or to Cow in this arrangement? Yes, Kamm, a Kidd endorsement would go a long way…same with Caruso. Yes Killer, I think that is well put. I do like the strategy part. I think there are lots of ways to improve the roster, so I’m not married to any one player. It needs to be someone I like though. I mean I’m not going to spend any time on Bledsoe for Powell and Brunson
To be clear on THT, I’m all in if he’s a secondary addition. I think we need at least two targets since we are presumably losing Hardaway and JRich. You’d like both to be improvements on what we had. So, the THJ replacement uses the bulk of the cap room and has to be an upgrade. The other either uses an opted in JRich as a trade chip or the rest of the space created by JRich opting out. Given what we got from JRich, we don’t need a ton of improvement. Positional needs is very much up for debate and all is dependent on possible trades of KP, Brunson, Powell and Maxi.
THT is an odd one for me. I’m usually much less an eye test guy and much more a stats guy. Parsons was projectable based on what he had done in Houston. Win Scores of 7 with way above league average shooting (at the time) wasn’t easy to come by. THT does some things that are just eye popping at 20. You put a .380 percentage on 3’s and you don’t need much else to have a $20mm guy. I don’t want to pay $20mm and the path to getting him for $10-$12mm is pretty narrow. So, I’m not optimistic. But, there is a set of circumstances where I’d make an offer after securing our primary target.