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LofJ wrote:I wonder if there's a market for Bertans' expiring contract? And what (if anything) we'd have to give up to swap him for someone like DeAndre Hunter. If we could pull off a trade like that and sign a decent veteran big man like Goga Bitadze we'd have real depth next season.

LaMelo/Micic/Curry
Miller/Mann/Smith
Hunter/Martin/Draft Pick
Bridges/Williams
Williams/Bitadze/Richards

Eh I dunno. I kinda like having a guy on the team that every time he releases a ball I think it's going in. He's such a goofy looking **** though. I'm a fan.

Could we cut Bertans and then re-sign him on a more team friendly deal?

JDR720 wrote:Could we cut Bertans and then re-sign him on a more team friendly deal?

I am not sure on this tbh

Suns on the verge of getting swept by the Wolves.

They have 2 options trade Booker and get a real pg that fits with KD/Beal or trade KD and still be stuck with a Booker/Beal backcourt.

LaMelo/top 3 pick for Booker this off-season.


Suns gets a better fit and a facilitator for KD/Beal. They also get another quality player with a top 3 pick.

Charlotte gets Booker.

Sign CP3 this off-season and run with a CP3/Booker/Miller/Bridges/Mark lineup.

I was about to post something similar. Melo and whatever else for Booker.

You guys are on drugs. Lamelo and a top 3 pick for Booker? I get the health issues for Lamelo but get the **** out of here. Lol.

Liver_Pooty wrote:You guys are on drugs. Lamelo and a top 3 pick for Booker? I get the health issues for Lamelo but get the **** out of here. Lol.

That's an easy trade for the Hornets lol what. Booker is a proven winner, all-NBA player who carried a team of Bridges and Ayton to 64-18 record. Has 6 good years left at the very least. Would be amazing with Miller and Bridges. I love LaMelo but I don't ever see him doing that

amcoolio wrote:

Liver_Pooty wrote:You guys are on drugs. Lamelo and a top 3 pick for Booker? I get the health issues for Lamelo but get the **** out of here. Lol.

That's an easy trade for the Hornets lol what. Booker is a proven winner, all-NBA player who carried a team of Bridges and Ayton to 64-18 record. Has 6 good years left at the very least. Would be amazing with Miller and Bridges. I love LaMelo but I don't ever see him doing that

I would absolutely not give Lamelo and this year's 1 thru 3 pick for Booker. I'll keep it at that.

Can take booker over Lamelo. That's fine obviously. I'm not attaching a top pick. I don't care how supposedly weak this draft is.

Liver_Pooty wrote:You guys are on drugs. Lamelo and a top 3 pick for Booker? I get the health issues for Lamelo but get the **** out of here. Lol.

You must enjoy Melo for 20 games a year.

Booker is a all NBA kind of player. This is a easy decision for us.

JustBuzzin wrote:

Liver_Pooty wrote:You guys are on drugs. Lamelo and a top 3 pick for Booker? I get the health issues for Lamelo but get the **** out of here. Lol.

You must enjoy Melo for 20 games a year.

Booker is a all NBA kind of player. This is a easy decision for us.

Yep. You take Booker imo. Dude's > Melo.

Liver_Pooty wrote:You guys are on drugs. Lamelo and a top 3 pick for Booker? I get the health issues for Lamelo but get the **** out of here. Lol.

You won't hear me advocating for trading Melo, but if we're not confident in our pick becoming anything I absolutely get where this trade is coming from. Especially if Melo isn't taking his rehab seriously enough which only people behind the scenes will know.

Booker is better than Melo. The 3rd pick in this draft isn't likely to be that good either. If anything, the Suns will want Brandon instead of Melo.

JDR720 wrote:Booker is better than Melo. The 3rd pick in this draft isn't likely to be that good either. If anything, the Suns will want Brandon instead of Melo.

You have no idea what the 3rd pick will become. Neither do I. The pick is what I would never give up

The very same team (Suns) acquired a comparable star to Booker (KD) by trading their third option/4th options (Mikal Bridges/Cam Johnson) plus 4 (theoretically late) first round picks.

We are being held to a different standard here and LaMelo is being treated like damaged goods. He's our #2 option. And you can't win playoff games without a good solid playmaker running offense. Suns know that. Plus we give up a high lottery pick. It wasn't required for KD. Late firsts.

Hornets outgoing front office put is in a position where our draft cupboard is stocked to the point where we can outbid other teams whenever a star player like Booker becomes available. Not every team but many.

After completion of the coming season, we can shop 6 first round picks. We can use Miles as a base as the Suns used Mikal.

We are not there yet.

We need a full survey of this team playing healthy under a new coach.

I think we should be aiming lower like Trey Murphy III. Pelicans have cap issues. Given LaMelo, Miller and Miles can all score 20, all we need is a glue guy like Murphy III. And we need to make our top-5 selection.

Plenty of teams need a top PG (Pelicans/Suns who are getting swept or Wiz/Spurs who suck), and we should not be bailing them out by putting ourselves in their same unenviable position.

What do we do about a PG?

With three players capable of scoring 20, we are close enough to add using draft capital, instead of fillling one hole (lead scorer) by creating another. Plus Brandon profiles as a lead scorer, making Booker even more a surplus luxury.

Let the Pistons trade Cade (AND a top-5 pick lol).

The Suns aren't doing this trade. Even if the if the value is fair. They have no picks, they aren't trading their best player in their prime to play with a 36 yr old Durant.

Booker is without a doubt a better player then Melo, but the contracts are also vastly different. Booker is almost making 2x what Melo will be making

Thinking about this a bit more lately and watching some of the teams having playoff success, namely Minnesota and NYK I think we need to get bigger / tougher. Jayden McDaniels and OG are defensive difference makers for those teams. If we are resigning Miles, I lean more towards bumping him down to SF and adding a defensive oriented PF type. That makes Miller the 2, but then I’m not sure about his ability to guard quick guards on the perimeter.

Either way, defensive oriented SG or PF with the ability to make open threes would be ideal. We have guys similar to that in Cody and Grant but they’re not as dynamic and Cody is a straight up liability on offense.

So with our draft ammo and cap space, who could we go after? I still favor Mikal Bridges once Brooklyn accepts they won’t win with what they have.

Rich4114 wrote:Thinking about this a bit more lately and watching some of the teams having playoff success, namely Minnesota and NYK I think we need to get bigger / tougher. Jayden McDaniels and OG are defensive difference makers for those teams. If we are resigning Miles, I lean more towards bumping him down to SF and adding a defensive oriented PF type. That makes Miller the 2, but then I’m not sure about his ability to guard quick guards on the perimeter.

Either way, defensive oriented SG or PF with the ability to make open threes would be ideal. We have guys similar to that in Cody and Grant but they’re not as dynamic and Cody is a straight up liability on offense.

So with our draft ammo and cap space, who could we go after? I still favor Mikal Bridges once Brooklyn accepts they won’t win with what they have.

PF who plays defense and hits 3s? We should look into this guy Dallas has. PJ Washington.

I like a Bridges for Randle sign n trade. Gives us a legit scoring pf with size who can actually rebound like a pf. Draft Risacher.

Melo
Miller
Risacher
Randle
Mark

JustBuzzin wrote:I like a Bridges for Randle sign n trade. Gives us a legit scoring pf with size who can actually rebound like a pf. Draft Risacher.

Melo
Miller
Risacher
Randle
Mark

Randle expires after next season I believe. I'll pass.