07-21-2021, 09:21 AM
(07-20-2021, 11:35 PM)Branduil Wrote: Gonna go back to my original offseason plan. Reggie Jackson + John Collins. The best part of this plan is both guys are extremely gettable... Atlanta probably won't be able to pay Collins max, and the Clippers literally can't pay Reggie Jackson as much as he can get elsewhere. This plan also doesn't require lots of improbably trades.
Current cap space plus Maxi and Burke's contracts outgoing would get us to about $44 million in space. I think that's enough for both guys. Reggie Jackson would basically be THJ plus what we expected of JRich combined into one player. Collins is like Maxi plus Powell combined into a better player.
We don't need to trade KP to add both of these guys, although if we could do a KP for Adams trade that would give us space to also re-sign THJ.
That's not a bad plan, but calling Reggie Jackson THJ plus our hopes for JRich is a stretch. He has averaged mid 20s in minutes the last two years, and 11 points a game. He is also not a stopper on defense. He would be a reasonable stop gap for a year or two as a starting secondary play maker, but I would not read too much into one playoff run.
I don't see Atlanta taking on Burke (why would they) and they may not even want Maxi (or we may not have to give him up). I would much rather try to dump Powell (and spend an asset doing it) as Maxi is a much better fit with both KP and Collins. If you sign Collins and dump Powell, you would have 17 left. If they have to send Maxi in that trade, you have 14 left without dumping Powell, and that should be plenty to sign Jackson.