Now, we have a lot of work to do to reform our roster this off season.
Right now our roster sits a pathetic
PG- Snow
SG- Newble/Harris/Luke/Sasha/Jiri
SF- James
PF- Gooden/Varejao
C- none
Not very pretty.
Tractor/Diop are our only free agents we may consider resigning.
F U J-mac!
Now, the most important parts to a team are its point guard, and its center/PF.
Most great teams have had either a great big, or a great point to lead them.
While I see the cavs looking to resign Z, i think they see him as someone who slows the team down, can be a black hole in the offense at times, and someone who if his shot isn't falling he's useless, Gilbert has hatred for Z. :chuckles:
So, with them having these views, they sign, and trade Z for Ray Allen. We get our shooter, and seattle gets the post threat Nate McMillian has wanted. Now, if I were the cavs I'd try to dump snows contract onto Seattle, may be offer to take on Danny Fortson(who seattle has been trying to dump), whose contract only goes on for 3 more years rather than 4, or 5. Fortson has been a headache to seattle and they try to get rid of him, but no one wants him. We'd take on fortsons attitude too, but we could use an attitude like his on the team, brings out toughness. He'd be our goon next to traylor.
So lets say this now. Bear with me.
PG- LeBron James/Jiri
SG- Ray Allen/Newble
SF- Luke Jackson/Sasha
PF- Drew/AV
C- AV/Fortson
Alright, what i've done so far is maintained cap flexibility.
We still have 6-8 million to spend.
Now, I'd go after a point guard in the free agency pool. Obviously Duhon is the best of the point guards, I'd try to throw a starting salary of 3-4 million at duhon just to see if the bulls would match. If they did, I'd then set my sights on Memphis' Earl Watson Both Duhon, and Watson protect the ball, and are very good defensively, exactly what we need at the point guard position!
You may have seen I've moved LeBron to point guard. Luke, and Ray Allen can help bring the ball up the court to take some pressure off lebron, both Luke, and Allen have good ball handling skills So, essentially we have 3 guys with point guard skills, that can be unselfish on the floor, leading to good ball movement. Not to mention LeBron would have the ball in his hands, with threats running along side him, this is ideal.
So, if we were to get one of duhon, or watson I'd then go after another big man now. Swift would be available, but if we signed him this would put us at just about our cap limit, which is fine, but I'd rather get a center than another PF. Following the plan for ugly big men with limited skill, I'd go after a Jerome James type. Or I'd try to trade Sasha for a late first round pick(hopefully we could get an earlier pick :chuckles: ) to get Johan Petro, a 7' frenchman with shot blocking ability.
I might try to trade gooden for a pick too, but, may be throw him out there to see if we can get high enough to draft a point guard early, so we won't have to get one in free agency, leaving us with more cap room to sign bigs.
I'd also try to resign diop, sure he's slop, but good enough for a guy who will be last off the bench.
Resign Traylor too.
Now, we've filled the majority of our needs.
We got our shooter, Allen, and Luke for next year.
We got a play maker at the point guard position, LeBron.
We have ugly big men, who can rebound, fortson, AV,jerome james/petro.
so now the roster looks like this.
James/pick or watson
Allen/Newble
Luke/Jiri
Gooden, or AV/Traylor
Jerome James or Petro/Fortson/Diop/
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With this plan we can only hope Jiri can regain his confidence in the off season, and that we could have the chance at a roster like this. It doesn't look much better than what we had this year, but the chemistry that this team would have may help make it better than it should be.
What I like is we have combined 2 superstars in LeBron, and Allen, this is good. :chuckles: We don't have a post threat, but I don't think management is too concerned with that, they want to build a defensive front court, and let lebron do the posting up. We definately will have mismatches with this team in the back court.
Rome isn't built in a day but this off season looks good to me for the future. We also have a lot of good cap flexibility in the future with this roster.
With this team I can see us building toward the future, and building a team that can score a lot, and yet not give up on playing defense, which is ideal. Solid D, with cerebral O will git er donn.
I can see the new regime pulling something like this off this off season if they decide to build a team that Z is not included on.
Right now our roster sits a pathetic
PG- Snow
SG- Newble/Harris/Luke/Sasha/Jiri
SF- James
PF- Gooden/Varejao
C- none
Not very pretty.
Tractor/Diop are our only free agents we may consider resigning.
F U J-mac!
Now, the most important parts to a team are its point guard, and its center/PF.
Most great teams have had either a great big, or a great point to lead them.
While I see the cavs looking to resign Z, i think they see him as someone who slows the team down, can be a black hole in the offense at times, and someone who if his shot isn't falling he's useless, Gilbert has hatred for Z. :chuckles:
So, with them having these views, they sign, and trade Z for Ray Allen. We get our shooter, and seattle gets the post threat Nate McMillian has wanted. Now, if I were the cavs I'd try to dump snows contract onto Seattle, may be offer to take on Danny Fortson(who seattle has been trying to dump), whose contract only goes on for 3 more years rather than 4, or 5. Fortson has been a headache to seattle and they try to get rid of him, but no one wants him. We'd take on fortsons attitude too, but we could use an attitude like his on the team, brings out toughness. He'd be our goon next to traylor.
So lets say this now. Bear with me.
PG- LeBron James/Jiri
SG- Ray Allen/Newble
SF- Luke Jackson/Sasha
PF- Drew/AV
C- AV/Fortson
Alright, what i've done so far is maintained cap flexibility.
We still have 6-8 million to spend.
Now, I'd go after a point guard in the free agency pool. Obviously Duhon is the best of the point guards, I'd try to throw a starting salary of 3-4 million at duhon just to see if the bulls would match. If they did, I'd then set my sights on Memphis' Earl Watson Both Duhon, and Watson protect the ball, and are very good defensively, exactly what we need at the point guard position!
You may have seen I've moved LeBron to point guard. Luke, and Ray Allen can help bring the ball up the court to take some pressure off lebron, both Luke, and Allen have good ball handling skills So, essentially we have 3 guys with point guard skills, that can be unselfish on the floor, leading to good ball movement. Not to mention LeBron would have the ball in his hands, with threats running along side him, this is ideal.
So, if we were to get one of duhon, or watson I'd then go after another big man now. Swift would be available, but if we signed him this would put us at just about our cap limit, which is fine, but I'd rather get a center than another PF. Following the plan for ugly big men with limited skill, I'd go after a Jerome James type. Or I'd try to trade Sasha for a late first round pick(hopefully we could get an earlier pick :chuckles: ) to get Johan Petro, a 7' frenchman with shot blocking ability.
I might try to trade gooden for a pick too, but, may be throw him out there to see if we can get high enough to draft a point guard early, so we won't have to get one in free agency, leaving us with more cap room to sign bigs.
I'd also try to resign diop, sure he's slop, but good enough for a guy who will be last off the bench.
Resign Traylor too.
Now, we've filled the majority of our needs.
We got our shooter, Allen, and Luke for next year.
We got a play maker at the point guard position, LeBron.
We have ugly big men, who can rebound, fortson, AV,jerome james/petro.
so now the roster looks like this.
James/pick or watson
Allen/Newble
Luke/Jiri
Gooden, or AV/Traylor
Jerome James or Petro/Fortson/Diop/
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With this plan we can only hope Jiri can regain his confidence in the off season, and that we could have the chance at a roster like this. It doesn't look much better than what we had this year, but the chemistry that this team would have may help make it better than it should be.
What I like is we have combined 2 superstars in LeBron, and Allen, this is good. :chuckles: We don't have a post threat, but I don't think management is too concerned with that, they want to build a defensive front court, and let lebron do the posting up. We definately will have mismatches with this team in the back court.
Rome isn't built in a day but this off season looks good to me for the future. We also have a lot of good cap flexibility in the future with this roster.
With this team I can see us building toward the future, and building a team that can score a lot, and yet not give up on playing defense, which is ideal. Solid D, with cerebral O will git er donn.
I can see the new regime pulling something like this off this off season if they decide to build a team that Z is not included on.