Trades That Work III

Cap room provides flexibility, where you can trade from a position of power, something that the W’s are never able to do. By the way, if we draft John Wall this year, and keep Curry, wouldn’t that retard Curry’s development even further? Has anyone stopped to think that if we do get the number one pick and draft John Wall we will have 3 pg's? Just putting that out there. If Steve Nash-err-I mean Stephen Curry is still on the team, and Monta Ellis as well, than who will have to sacrifice minutes?

 Cap room also would allow the Warriors to take on players for next to nothing, like how the Thunder got Eric Maynor this past week and how the Grizzlies got Zach Randolph, the Clippers and Camby, etc. These trades will never happen to us because of Vladimir and Maggette contracts.

 Let's say the W's headed into the offseason with $30 million in cap room. The draft comes first so hopefully we'll get a shot at Derrick Favors. If not, Evan Turner or Xavier Henry would be nice options. I like the kid from Syracuse as well. If John Wall is there, I would take him, because he has shown he has the ability to defend and he's athletic enough to guard bigger players. But I think Turner would fit perfectly with Monta. Either way we're in a win-win situation unless we fall out of the top 6.

 So this is where we left off with those terrible trades. We would have two 1st round picks plus two 2nd round picks in a draft with plenty of big men and potential stars. Heading into the off-season we would have a payroll of just $22,736,660. Our roster heading into the draft would look like this:

Morrow is a restricted free agent at the end of the year and I would be willing to match most offers he would receive that are within reason. That would also depend on who we get in the draft though.

 The W’s probably won’t have a shot at D-Wade & Lebron but is that the only way to build a team? We will have realistic shots at:

 Amar’e Stoudemire

Rudy Gay-Who would be an upgrade over Randolph

Sean Williams-The Randolph of the Nets, check this youtube clip if you don’t believe me. And he’ll come cheap.

With all of our cap room we would have the ability to sign all three of these players at the same time. Williams would provide the defense and rebounding, Rudy would be a perfect third option and we know what Amar’e can do.

If we do end up getting Favors than we don't need to offer Amar'e a contract. If we get Turner than we can offer Amar'e a max contract or maybe low ball him a bit and offer him $13-15 million a year. We then still have $15 million left to build with. I wouldn’t mind overpaying for Gay at this point if it made our lineup look like this:

PG-Monta Ellis-$11 million

SG-Evan Turner-$3 million

SF-Rudy Gay-$13 million

PF-Brandon Bass-$4 million

C-Amar’e Stoudemire-$16 million/Derrick Favors-$3 million

Bench: 

Ronny Turiaf/Sean Williams-$4 million/$1.5 million    

Anthony Morrow-$3-3.5 million

Kelenna Azubuike-$3.3 million

Javaris Crittenton-$1-2 million

2 second round picks for the final roster spots, plus that late 1st round pick that could be used as another trade chip or we take a flyer on him. You know, kinda like Monta or Gilbert.

Still have around $16 million left to sign Amar’e if we don’t get Derrick Favors. If the Grizz don’t match Rudy than I’m bringing back Morrow and calling it a day. The only difficulty is that we would have to play a little bit of a waiting game because Gay is a Restricted Free Agent. If we get Favors than that means no Evan Turner, but we’ll definitely get Gay as a result.

So let me do you guys a favor now and look at the worst case scenario lineup for next season.

Monta Ellis-$11 mill

Anthony Morrow-$3 mill

Evan Turner-$3 mill

Brandon Bass-$4 mill

Ronny Turiaf/Sean Williams-$4 mill, and $2 mill

1st round pick that we take a flyer on.

Azubuike-$3 mill

About $30 mill left in cap space.  

At this point in time this is what your team will look like next year anyway. You’ll be hoping that Turner is the next Brandon Roy and that Curry goes from 12 & 5 to 15 & 7. This doesn’t sound to promising either. And finally for the grand finale, I’m hiring Brian Shaw. He spent the last 4 years learning from Phil Jackson, he’s young and he’s from Oakland so he’ll come cheap. Now that I have spelled out what the W’s should do, please, offer your criticisms. It’s what you guys are best at. I call myself Solutions because instead of complaining on blogs all day I actually try to come up with alternatives. Maybe I should change my name to "Hope" as in: I "hope" that Curry becomes Steve Nash! I "hope" that Randolph develops a post-game, puts on weight, and gets a jumper. I hope that they all stay with the Warriors forever and ever like all of our other stars from the past 20 years!"

Wow! Hoping is so much fun! I feel a lot better now about our 8-21 record.