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As of right now we have about 3 mil to work with, with Cunningham, price and hummel coming off the books. We also have the mid level exception.

First I would trade Barea for any second round pick (a team would do this), so now we are working with about 8 mil, if possible I would trade LRAM for a second to, happened this summer so it might happen again, if possible we would have about 12.5 mil to spend this offseason, for 5 players

First I would draft Aaron Gordon (going off NBAdraft.net players available) so thats about 2 mil, so 10.5 mil left
Second round select Stauskas (projected second round by NBAdraft.net) about a half a million so 10 mil left for 3 players

Two options we could go

Option A:

Sign: Luol Deng to a 4 yr 40 Mil contract
Sign: Luke Ridnour 2 yr 5 mil contract so 2.5 left on the mid level
Sign: Matt Bonner for 1 yr vet min

Lineup:
PG: Rubio/Ridnour/Shved
SG: Kmart/Bazz/Bud/Staskus
SF: Deng/Brewer/Bazz/Bud
PF: Klove/Gordon/Deng/Bonner
C: Pek/Turiaf/Dieng/Bonner

Why I like this option: We get another needle moving player in Deng, a two way player and a borderline all star, we also in this scenario add a vet PG in Ridnour who I can't believe I am saying this I would love to have back. Also adding shooting in Bonner

Option B:

Sign: Steve Blake 2 years 9 mil
Sign: Jodie Meeks: 2 years 11 mil
Sign: Dujan Blair 1 year vet min

Lineup:
PG: Rubio/Blake/Shved
SG: Kmart/Bazz/Bud/Meeks/Stauskas
SF: Meeks/Brewer/Bud
PF: Love/Gordon/Blair
C: Pek/Turiaf/Deing

Why I like this Option: we don't add a all star caliber player but our bench is massively improved, steve blake can run the offense and hit threes (struggles on D), Adding meeks would be a great addition to the team and realistically should be our number 1 priority this offseason, another three and D guy. Also like the addition of Blair who is tough defensively and is a good rebounder.

Coaching options this offseason: My order of guys I would like to see
1) Stan Van Gundy
2) George Karl
3) Hollins
4) Hoiberg
5) Chris Collins (Northwestern)
6) Wild Card what I am going to get killed on Jim Peterson (has been an assistant with the Lynx)


Also if we are going to trade Love trade him to the Bulls please, we could get there pick, the Bobcats pick, Butler, Gibson and the Nikola guy overseas. We instantly become a very good defensive team with Rubio, Butler, Gibson, Pek (underrated), Brewer (Overrated Defender but still gets TOs) then we would have three first rounders (exactly what the wolves are great at draft picks) With those three picks going with NBA draft.net players still available, I am selecting Kyle Anderson, Aaron Gordon and finally Pettaway.

Sorry with the rambling

Whoa. With all due respect keek, you dont understand how the cap works. We wont have enough to sign any player to a 10m per yr deal even if we got rid of jj anf luc for nothing.

Also meeks cant play sf. He is a undersize sg.

first order of business is a new coach..then we will talk about everything else

Lolol Stauskas in the second round.

I like the effort kek, but there's a lot of fantasy in this post.

Nope, Stauskas is odds on favorite to win Big Ten player of the year...very little chance he drops out of the lottery, much less into the second round.

Petteway remains under the radar though, and has a chance to fall to round 2...doubtful though.

Kek -- I like the spirit of your post. But we will still be well over the cap even after Cunningham, Hummel and Orice come off the books. And we will be over the cap, we can't trade a player without taking comparable salary back in return. Other than trades and our draft pick, all we have to work with of significance is the mid-level exception. And we may not be able to use the exception without exceeding the luxury tax threshold. Sorry, but short of trading Love or Pekovic, Flip doesn't have much to work with.

Lip, you have it backwards on taking on salary. Over the cap teamS have to give up salary in a trade, but don't necessarily have to take any back, depending on the other teams cap status. If they could find a team under the cap to take someone like Hummel or Price, we could reduce our cap number. Unfortunately, it isn't likely to happen, and we would have to dump several deals to make a difference.

In other words, We Are Screwed!

Well, we have the development of Shabazz and Deing, plus the continued recovery of Bud to look forward to...

We should have our lottery pick. I have a tough time imagining a team wanting Barea -- I'm afraid we are stuck with him next year. Getting a defensive minded head coach will likely be the biggest impact Flip can make. Yea!

60WinTim wrote:Well, we have the development of Shabazz and Deing, plus the continued recovery of Bud to look forward to...

We should have our lottery pick. I have a tough time imagining a team wanting Barea -- I'm afraid we are stuck with him next year. Getting a defensive minded head coach will likely be the biggest impact Flip can make. Yea!

Tim, Bud took considerably longer to come back from his surgery than most players do. That most likely means that he had significant swelling with that knee. He didn't have an ACL or MF, where players continue to improve over the course of a year to year and a half. He had part of his meniscus removed. This is likely as good as he gets, and it is more likely he will get worse. I don't think we should put any stock in him improving in the future.

I agree it is too much to hope for with JJ. If they were going to do something, the deadline was likely the time for that. Most teams will start off the season with a cheaper version and reassess at next years deadline.

I do think the defensive coach is likely to be our biggest change. It makes sense from a personnel standpoint in that we have to have a better team concept, and it might allow Rubio to freelance more on offense as well (which I think is a good thing).

I'm actually ok with how the roster currently stands, except for a few minor transactions. We can't afford to lock in any long term deals if we want to resign Love and Rubio, we need flexibility and expiring contracts.

I would look to trade Barea for anything, but am ok if he stay under a new coach who knows how to utilise his skills (i.e play him off the ball as per Dallas title run). He is an expiring which holds some value. But it's hard to see Barea here after this season, he's sealed his fate and Adelman's helped him there.

I wouldn't mind resigning Cunningham for cheap, but limit him to spot minutes behind another PF. He's in over his head playing any more minutes, that's been obvious for the last two seasons.

LMAM is also an expiring in 2015, but I think his contract will be pretty hard to move. I'm afraid we are stuck with his one way play.

I think we need to look more in to our current roster for solutions. We have a shot blocker in Dieng, we have a scoring punch in Muhammad. They will develop with more game time and a season under their belt.

Two areas to improve are the backup PG and the back up PF positions. We have the MLE and a 1st round pick to play with.

All in all it is important that we don't blow up the roster again. We need to stick with these guys for one more season. Strengthen the bench and get a younger coach who is interested in developing younger players.