The Final Two Roster Spots - PG Position

[Squishypoo [enjin:6648839]]

Heard Nate Robinson was in mn for a work out.

[kekgeek]

Here is my thoughts on the situation. I honestly could care less who we sign as our 3rd pg because in the end nobody on the market will move the needle in anyway in my opinion. So if it is brooks, cannan, Burke or whoever nothing will come of it.

Now for the wrong spot I would do my best to sign Cunningham because in my opinion he is the only player left on the market who is more than just a warm body and could move the needle by .1 with his hustle, defense, mid-range shooting and possibly 3pt shooting.

Now if Cunningham goes elsewhere, I would just sign MGH to be that wing. To be honest I really no nothing about him but I like that we have project young guys deep on the bench.

If the wing depth situation becomes a disaster we always have that 1st we got from the jazz in the ricky trade. I believe that is being underreported. During the season we can trade the pick and Aldrich for a player making ~10 mil a year. And that team can cut Aldrich next year because of the non-gauranteed contact.

So in conclusion add and develop the young guy if need be we can always trade the pick if we are on a huge pickle

[Lipoli390]

The more I think about it the more I'd like to see us go with Monster's suggestion andsign Payton II if the Bucks release him. He can play both backcourt positions. He hustles, defends and rebounds. And he's young with upside. He's a late bloomer who started out in junior college. Jimmy Butler might see some of himself in Payton and take him under his wing. I'd opt for Cunningham for all the reasons geek gave.

So I've settled on Payton II and Cunningham as my top choices to fill the remaining two roster spots. If Payton ends up not being available, then I'd sign Canaan as my next choice followed by Brooks. If Dante turns us down, then I'd sign Dunleavy to strengthen our 3-point shooting.

[bleedspeed]

http://www.foxsports.com/north/story/minnesota-timberwolves-amile-jefferson-melo-trimble-091817

[longstrangetrip [enjin:6600564]]

http://www.foxsports.com/north/story/minnesota-timberwolves-amile-jefferson-melo-trimble-091817

Thibs cheated...neither of these guys were on the list to vote for!

Kind of a big yawn...gotta hope neither of these sees the floor after we get back from China. Zgoda reported that Cunningham would make his decision before today, so I assume he told Thibs he was going elsewhere.

[Monster]

http://www.foxsports.com/north/story/minnesota-timberwolves-amile-jefferson-melo-trimble-091817

Thibs cheated...neither of these guys were on the list to vote for!

Kind of a big yawn...gotta hope neither of these sees the floor after we get back from China. Zgoda reported that Cunningham would make his decision before today, so I assume he told Thibs he was going elsewhere.

These were deals that were reported weeks ago. They probably just made them official now so that likely has nothing to do with any of the other FAs we may or may not get.

[bleedspeed]

Monster - I missed it earlier. I am guessing they are camp bodies.

[longstrangetrip [enjin:6600564]]

http://www.foxsports.com/north/story/minnesota-timberwolves-amile-jefferson-melo-trimble-091817

Thibs cheated...neither of these guys were on the list to vote for!

Kind of a big yawn...gotta hope neither of these sees the floor after we get back from China. Zgoda reported that Cunningham would make his decision before today, so I assume he told Thibs he was going elsewhere.

These were deals that were reported weeks ago. They probably just made them official now so that likely has nothing to do with any of the other FAs we may or may not get.

Thx for that, monster...I do remember some discussion about Trimble a few weeks ago.

I count 16 bodies on the roster now (ESPN shows 17, but they have not yet removed Rush). Under the new 2-way contract rules, do we still have room for 2 more contracts, or are we now filled up?

[Monster]

http://www.foxsports.com/north/story/minnesota-timberwolves-amile-jefferson-melo-trimble-091817

Thibs cheated...neither of these guys were on the list to vote for!

Kind of a big yawn...gotta hope neither of these sees the floor after we get back from China. Zgoda reported that Cunningham would make his decision before today, so I assume he told Thibs he was going elsewhere.

These were deals that were reported weeks ago. They probably just made them official now so that likely has nothing to do with any of the other FAs we may or may not get.

Thx for that, monster...I do remember some discussion about Trimble a few weeks ago.

I count 16 bodies on the roster now (ESPN shows 17, but they have not yet removed Rush). Under the new 2-way contract rules, do we still have room for 2 more contracts, or are we now filled up?

If I remember correctly you can have 20 total guys signed for training camp and that was before 2-way contracts so I don't know if those guys would count towards that number. Either way they have plenty of room to sign a couple more guys. I think Bazz gives them 12 guaranteed salary guys. I was under the impression that MGH had a decent amount guanateed (like 275k) but I'm not sure. It's been reported that he had better offers so I have made the assumption he is a legit possibility to make the roster not just the camp fodder long shot type.

Amile Jefferson seems like a guy that could turn into the next Costello type of player (how exciting! Lol) where he really impresses in lower levels in terms of productivity. By all accounts he is absolutely a team first guy and does a lot of the dirty work. It sounds like he actually has some decent old school post game so he might be able to make some teams pay for guarding him with a some smaller players. My guess he ends up in Iowa either as an affiliate player or gets a 2 way contract. Once teams make cuts there will be a flood of possible options for those last few 2-way deals. This site says there are only 15 of those spots left although you could see a team being really impressed with a guy and giving him an NBA roster spot if they have one.

https://2ways10days.com/nba-two-way-contract-tracker-c8d2dffe7be7

[longstrangetrip [enjin:6600564]]

http://www.foxsports.com/north/story/minnesota-timberwolves-amile-jefferson-melo-trimble-091817

Thibs cheated...neither of these guys were on the list to vote for!

Kind of a big yawn...gotta hope neither of these sees the floor after we get back from China. Zgoda reported that Cunningham would make his decision before today, so I assume he told Thibs he was going elsewhere.

These were deals that were reported weeks ago. They probably just made them official now so that likely has nothing to do with any of the other FAs we may or may not get.

Thx for that, monster...I do remember some discussion about Trimble a few weeks ago.

I count 16 bodies on the roster now (ESPN shows 17, but they have not yet removed Rush). Under the new 2-way contract rules, do we still have room for 2 more contracts, or are we now filled up?

If I remember correctly you can have 20 total guys signed for training camp and that was before 2-way contracts so I don't know if those guys would count towards that number. Either way they have plenty of room to sign a couple more guys. I think Bazz gives them 12 guaranteed salary guys. I was under the impression that MGH had a decent amount guanateed (like 275k) but I'm not sure. It's been reported that he had better offers so I have made the assumption he is a legit possibility to make the roster not just the camp fodder long shot type.

Amile Jefferson seems like a guy that could turn into the next Costello type of player (how exciting! Lol) where he really impresses in lower levels in terms of productivity. By all accounts he is absolutely a team first guy and does a lot of the dirty work. It sounds like he actually has some decent old school post game so he might be able to make some teams pay for guarding him with a some smaller players. My guess he ends up in Iowa either as an affiliate player or gets a 2 way contract. Once teams make cuts there will be a flood of possible options for those last few 2-way deals. This site says there are only 15 of those spots left although you could see a team being really impressed with a guy and giving him an NBA roster spot if they have one.

https://2ways10days.com/nba-two-way-contract-tracker-c8d2dffe7be7

I'm still confused. My understanding is teams can have 15 signed players plus 2 2-ways. Basketball-reference says we have 14 signed players:
https://www.basketball-reference.com/contracts/MIN.html

I think we also have just one 2-way contract, so doesn't that mean we have just one more full roster spot plus one 2-way? So, if Cunningham says yes today, I think we would be done (except for one more 2-way), right? I understand we can sign some camp bodies too, but it looks to me like we have only room for one more player on the regular roster.