We’re back in the swing of things and with a few careful moves, and continued growth of the Super Jay Bros. under Brad’s brilliance, we could win it all next year. Here’s what I’d like to see happen:
- Decline team options: Edwards and Grant Williams
- Re-sign Fournier
- Trade Smart and the remainder of TPE for Draymond Green (Klay is tall enough to play 3 and will be slower than before, so it makes sense to move Klay and Wiggins up to 3/4 with Smart slotted at the 2...do we want to risk losing Smart or guarantee we have a good defender in Green for a few years? Gotta pull the trigger on trading Smart if he will not re-sign this off-season)
- Sign Dragan Bender, Dante Exum and Harry Giles III to minimum deals
- Draft the best available player in the first-round (hopefully someone great slides to us) and a draft-and-stash in the second-round
- Continue to stash Yam Madar for one more season
Walker/Pritchard/Exum
Brown/Langford
Tatum/Fournier/Nesmith
Green/Parker/Giles
TT/Timelord/Bender
* + 2021 1st round pick (hopefully a promising 3/4)
bullet by bullet:
- Edwards and GWill are under contract for next year, period. The team option year is for the 22-23 season. They'll be here barring a trade to move them. I can't see the team eating their salary next year.
- Fournier supposedly has been spoken to about resigning with the team. whole point of trading for him was to keep him and not use that much of the TPE on a partial-season rental.
- Smart (nor any player) cannot be combined with the TPE in a deal. Even if it could, I'm not sure I'd trade him for Draymond considering where each of them are in their careers.
- No to signing those 3 scrubs. no more reclamation projects needed, particularly ones that haven't done squat after this many year.
- Draft BPA --> been Danny's strategy all along.
- Continue stashing Yam? not against it but he looks to be against it. if we can bring him over on a 2-way contract initially and kick Waters to the curb, I'm all for it.
to recap, Fournier move is pretty much in line with the purpose of the trade and taking BPA is the team's typical draft strategy. The rest is a non-starter.