Do we still have trust in Masai?

[golden]

lol what?

LOL. What was I thinking? Might have had a brain-cramp on that one. Actually, nobody showed up against the Wizards.

[Mess]

LOL. What was I thinking? Might have had a brain-cramp on that one. Actually, nobody showed up against the Wizards.

Yeah..I mean he did start a couple games but for the whole "series" he had 8 fouls, 5 points and 6 rebounds total - in 48 total minutes.

[rightsideup]

Nice effort, but the obvious flaw is that Lebron is a 1, and everybody else starts at 3.

Top flight 2-way players like PG13 and Butler deserve to be on the next tier by themselves. Kyle is on the tier after that, probably on par with Horford and Wall considering what those guys do on both sides of the floor. Melo & Kyrie could also be in there strictly on offense. Demar is on the tier after Kyle with someone like Isaiah Thomas being in there.

Something like this:

1. Lebron
2.
3. PG13, Butler
4. Kyle, Melo, Kyrie, Horford, Wall
5. DeMar, I. Thomas

ineresting but kyle and kyrie are easily on a higher level imo than wall horford and melo who cannot stay on the floor and is a ball stopper. Very good point on lebron just at another level of importance than anyone in the league.

[Primer]

I'd love to snag Terrence Jones or D-Mo with the MLE or the cap space we have left. Preferably on a 3 year deal so we can keep them around if they blow up, ala Biyombo, but I'd still take them on a 1 year prove it deal, ala Biyombo.

[golden]

Was thinking about Al Horford signing with the Celtics this off-season and doing some hind-sighting. If Masai didn't extend JV ($14M) & Ross ($10M) last season would that have given the Raps enough cap space to go after Horford, and then go over the cap to sign JV, Ross & DD afterwards?

[JimiCliff]

Was thinking about Al Horford signing with the Celtics this off-season and doing some hind-sighting. If Masai didn't extend JV ($14M) & Ross ($10M) last season would that have given the Raps enough cap space to go after Horford, and then go over the cap to sign JV, Ross & DD afterwards?

Not sure, but if JV had been signed THIS summer, he would have been max or near max. Ross, though, would have been about negative $10 million, so maybe it evens out.

[DanH]

Was thinking about Al Horford signing with the Celtics this off-season and doing some hind-sighting. If Masai didn't extend JV ($14M) & Ross ($10M) last season would that have given the Raps enough cap space to go after Horford, and then go over the cap to sign JV, Ross & DD afterwards?

No. JV's cap hold was ~12M, Ross' ~8M. So 20M combined instead of 24M actual salary. So about 10M total cap flexibility. Even if they let Ross walk, that means about 18M in cap room, about 9 million shy of being able to make a max offer for Horford.

That's part of why the extension values for each were pretty incredible, their first year salary wasn't much above their cap holds.

[rightsideup]

No. JV's cap hold was ~12M, Ross' ~8M. So 20M combined instead of 24M actual salary. So about 10M total cap flexibility. Even if they let Ross walk, that means about 18M in cap room, about 9 million shy of being able to make a max offer for Horford.

That's part of why the extension values for each were pretty incredible, their first year salary wasn't much above their cap holds.

Wow this business is very hard to navigate when I look at our last year's salaries compared to the other final four which were well over the cap I generalize that we need to spend to get at the next level. But there are rules to how that money is spent and we can evaluate where jv's, ross's extensions are fair value and how DeMar's 139 mill stacks up but connelly got 155 so that's just the price of talent at this time. During last night's game Steve Smith mentioned Biz would leave a big hole. We really need to expect some growth from JV,Norm,cory and even demar. As well as good health from demare.

[Triplethreat89]

I really dislike the ways psychi t gets technical fouls and other scuffles.. so unnecessary and ineffective!!! No one finds him scary!!

[3inthekeon]

I really dislike the ways psychi t gets technical fouls and other scuffles.. so unnecessary and ineffective!!! No one finds him scary!!

Are you talking about Hansbro? What brought this on? This seems like some totally random comment.