At the risk of saying something very unpopular and viewed as borderline apostasy:
This year should be about what we should have been doing for the past 3 years: see what we have and what is/isn't compatible. We have a lot of young guys and assets. Almost too much. I was hoping we would have consolidated some of this in a draft move-up. Nevertheless, we have a lot of guys that we need to give burn to and see how they work together. We can always use good players, sure. But adding a couple defenders isn't going to do as much for us defensively as we may be anticipating. The larger variable is what our team actually looks like in a different system. I don't think bringing in more mediocre talent is the answer to our problem with having too much mediocre talent. I'm good sitting pat and reassessing what our needs our as we start to see this thing unfold.
There are a total of 240 minutes available each game. I'd like to see our guys get approximately the following:
Burke 32
Exum 22
Burks 30
Hayward 34
Hood 24
Kanter 32
Favors 34
Gobert 22
This leaves about 10 minutes. Naturally there are injuries and whatnot, but I'd also like to see some minutes thrown to Evans, Murphy and Novak. This also doesn't count Neto or Tomic, if either of them come over. If Hayward isn't back then obviously a lot of this changes, but I'd like to actually have the minutes available for these guys and have them be forced on the floor. The "earn your minutes" worked awesome under Ty.