2022-2023 Regular Season II: Cardiac Cavs

[FrontPageNews]

Taking on Harris' terrible contract (18 mill this season and 19 mil next season) to acquire O'Neale for Love's expiring would be the whole point because it clears $28 million from their cap.

I understand. I just think they could get an actual asset for Harris.

How bad is joe Harris’s defense these days?

 

[Randolphkeys]

Call me crazy... but the deck was just reshuffled for this deadline. So many 3 and D wings and it's open season in Brooklyn.

But we still have zero firsts to dangle.

 

[Rookie]

Call me crazy... but the deck was just reshuffled for this deadline. So many 3 and D wings and it's open season in Brooklyn.

But we still have zero firsts to dangle.

Maybe send them a highlight reel of Luke.

 

[foucault87]

Brooklyn has so many interesting guys. Assuming Bridges and Johnson are off the table, I really like DFS. Seth Curry and O'Neal are good buy low options. Wouldn't hate even a smaller move like Windler for Yuta

 

[dms]

Wouldn't hate even a smaller move like Windler for Yuta

Overlooking the fact the Yuta is shooting 47% from three, why would a team even trade their used practice balls for Windler, what purpose does it serve them?
The Nets are still going to try to win. They still have decent talent on that team and they have no reason to tank with Houston owning their picks, so they won't just be dumping players to add lottery balls. Besides which any player who misses 4 months because of a sprained ankle has no value in the NBA.

 

[rastamon87]

Since the Suns made a big trade, Dan probably called Kobi already and told him to stop sitting on your hands, lol

 

[Lyuokdea]

Key thing to watch is that the Nets are currently paying $100M in tax this year, to field a non-competitive team.

Cavs won't want to go in the tax - but I would bet a trade to a team with Cap space, because the nets would be willing to part with a lot of assets to get out of that tax bill.

 

[Wham with the Right Hand]

The Suns are going all in. Trading four 1st round picks for a 34-year-old when your point guard is 38 is crazy. They have maybe this year and next to win a championship before Paul and Durant are too old and they're out of first round picks. At least we traded our first rounders for a 26-year-old.

What's up with Cam Thomas, the Nets' 21-year-old second year shooting guard who scored 44, 47, and 43 points the last three games since Kyrie was traded? His last game he was 18-for-20 on free throws. He's shooting 56% from the field and the same on 3's. He was the 27th pick in the 2021 draft.

I'd like to see the Cavs get Royce O'Neale, who is described as a good 3-and-D defender and who played with Mitchell at Utah. O'Neale is hitting 40.3% on 3's and is 6'6", 226, and 29 years old. I'd move Cedi or LeVert for him, but I doubt Brooklyn would do it. Fedor says O'Neale is the guy they want and Brooklyn is overloaded with wings now.

 

[Mowie666]

O'Neale at 4 assists per game jumps off the stat sheet for me. Gimme gimme with a 3 stroke.

 

[mofire]

Gonna be honest, I’d take Ben Simmons off the nets as a favor if they’d give us Mikal bridges.

 

[bleedwineandgold03]

Come on Cavs let’s get Harris and O’Neal let’s gooooooooo

 

[Lyuokdea]

Gonna be honest, I’d take Ben Simmons off the nets as a favor if they’d give us Mikal bridges.

As pointed out above (I forgot about this earlier as well) - We cannot have Simmons and Mitchell on our team at the same time, because they are both rookie max extensions.

That does not prevent us from having the nets send Simmons somewhere, and then sending back love to the nets... Though I doubt that would be enough to net us Bridges.

 

[chuck0609]

Call me crazy... but the deck was just reshuffled for this deadline. So many 3 and D wings and it's open season in Brooklyn.

But we still have zero firsts to dangle.

One would think that entire roster is obtainable. The 3 and Ds…damn.

4 first rounders for a 34 year old on the decline and swap rights when he reaches close to 40 and Booker in his 30s???? Nets actually got something back.

 

[Lyuokdea]

Key thing to watch is that the Nets are currently paying $100M in tax this year, to field a non-competitive team.

Cavs won't want to go in the tax - but I would bet a trade to a team with Cap space, because the nets would be willing to part with a lot of assets to get out of that tax bill.

Something like:

Spurs get - Simmons, Two Unprotected First round picks
Nets get - McDermott.

Works very well for both sides. Spurs stay just about 300k below the cap, and get good picks for their trouble. Nets save something like $80M in tax.

 

[mofire]

As pointed out above (I forgot about this earlier as well) - We cannot have Simmons and Mitchell on our team at the same time, because they are both rookie max extensions.

That does not prevent us from having the nets send Simmons somewhere, and then sending back love to the nets... Though I doubt that would be enough to net us Bridges.

That’s right. I keep forgetting about that rule.