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Natebishop3 said:
I feel like there’s a misunderstanding about being hard capped. You guys are acting like we have more flexibility if we aren’t hard capped yet. That doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is at the end of the day, if you trigger the hard cap, you have to have a minimum of 13 players and you can’t exceed the hard cap for any reason. So unless we are planning on trading someone like Hart for a pick, we can’t really do much. We have to free up space to make any moves.
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I don't think anyone is arguing that. But the Pelicans traded for CJ last season and they were hard-capped. Moves can still be made. I think that is the point that they were trying to make.
 
e_blazer said:
It’s totally hypothetical, but let’s say Cronin does one trade trade that ends up just over the apron and another that pushes it back below, as long as those two deals are processed by the league before Payton is signed, it looks to me like the MLE could still be used.
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Yeah that’s probably true. The main issue is going to be filling roster spots because we would probably need to send out multiple guys to match salary and then we would need to fill those empty spots. I think it’s most likely that we are done.
 
e_blazer said:
It’s totally hypothetical, but let’s say Cronin does one trade trade that ends up just over the apron and another that pushes it back below, as long as those two deals are processed by the league before Payton is signed, it looks to me like the MLE could still be used.
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Have some examples of this possibility? What deals can we make before? Trying to think of something to help us out of thid hard cap mess
 
Natebishop3 said:
Yeah that’s probably true. The main issue is going to be filling roster spots because we would probably need to send out multiple guys to match salary and then we would need to fill those empty spots. I think it’s most likely that we are done.
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More likely, we’d send out some of our young prospects and take back fillers to keep the roster at 13 or more.
 
illmatic99 said:
WOW.

193 mil for Garland.

Is he that much better than Ant, even with the All Star selection?
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I think Ant might be better than him but that's at PG. At SG Ant hasn't shown shit, so that's the question that has to be answered and the truth is all of my pissing and moaning might be for nothing because if Ant can be as effective at SG as he was at PG in January and February, then he's on a good deal.
 
Dame, GP2
Ant, Hart
Little, Sharpe
Grant, Watford
Nurk, Eubanks

Others:
Justice Winslow
Keon Johnson
Greg Brown III
Didi Louzada
Brandon Williams (2-way)
Jabari Walker (rookie)
Eric Bledsoe (likely waived, traded)

They can play it out and make a move or two by the deadline to consolidate the guards and address the thin frontcourt. My fantasy is somehow get involved in the Nets soap opera and snag Bridges out of PHX or Collins out of ATL or OG Anunoby out of Toronto or even Ben Simmons out of the Nets while keeping Dame Ant Grant and Nurk. Everyone else on the table plus picks.
 
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Nobody talking about Kyrie possibly on his way to the Lakers?
 
So for those of us with pieces of brain missing, who does Bledsoe’s contract look attractive to and why?
 
If this is the roster they can evaluate Sharpe I guess. If Nas stays relatively healthy and Sharpe “surprises” they won’t need to add a wing. Those are two pretty big ifs but the first half of the season is usually for evaluation anyway and with the play in tournament, teams can afford to be more patient.
 
RR7 said:
a 2nd rounder, sure.
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Not from us, I hope. OK, what I meant to say is Philly can give him to us for free. They are the ones who need for this deal to go through.
 
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blazerkor said:
I think Ant might be better than him but that's at PG. At SG Ant hasn't shown shit, so that's the question that has to be answered and the truth is all of my pissing and moaning might be for nothing because if Ant can be as effective at SG as he was at PG in January and February, then he's on a good deal.
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These guys don't think it's close: Garland crafted OPM 95th percentile, Anf 86th; Anf better in the shooting categories but Garland better in most others, especially passing and creating.
On defense Garland with only a 44th percentile DPM but Anf in the lowest percentile, 1. Garland far superior in creating deflections and turnovers and not fouling.

https://craftednba.com/players/anfernee-simons

https://craftednba.com/players/darius-garland
 
UKRAINEFAN said:
These guys don't think it's close: Garland crafted OPM 95th percentile, Anf 86th; Anf better in the shooting categories but Garland better in most others, especially passing and creating.
On defense Garland with only a 44th percentile DPM but Anf in the lowest percentile, 1. Garland far superior in creating deflections and turnovers and not fouling.

https://craftednba.com/players/anfernee-simons

https://craftednba.com/players/darius-garland
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Something like every team to win an NBA title since 2000 except 1 was in the Top-10 in defense. Hopefully Chauncey can teach Ant some things.....and it can't really get worse, can it?
 
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TBpup said:
Something like every team since 2000 except 1 was in the Top-10 in defense. Hopefully Chauncey can teach Ant some things.....and it can't really get worse, can it?
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That's true, but those stats are from last year with Billups as coach. I'm not really optimistic about him or Lillard improving substantially on D.
 
UKRAINEFAN said:
That's true, but those stats are from last year with Billups as coach. I'm not really optimistic about him or Lillard improving substantially on D.
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Somehow it left out part of what I typed. It should have read,

"Something like every team to win an NBA title since 2000 except 1 was in the Top-10 in defense. Hopefully Chauncey can teach Ant some things.....and it can't really get worse, can it?" (Referring to Ant being in the very bottom percentile in term of defense.)
 
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