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You're the GM this offseason. What do you do?

infection said:
What’s your plan for him clearing waivers? He’ll be snatched up by some low bidders and be labeled Waivers Favors.
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His plan doesn’t work... he should drop it. Even if he cleared waivers why is he giving us the discount when he could likely get something similar and a starting job.

Remember he didn’t say they need to keep me... he said they need to pick up my option (he used the wrong terminology) that’s about money as much as anything else imo.

So retain Favs, let Ricky walk, add Lamb (who is okayish but Quin May murder him) and try again next summer? We might get better with internal development but that sounds like a recipe for 48-52 wins and a first or second round exit... nailed it!
 
Imo if/when we strike out in FA I think breaking out that 31M into 3 players might provide greater flexibility and add some trade possibilities. If the players are older (Danny green, Rudy Gay, Trevor Ariza types) make them 1+1 deals that provide motivation to perform and can be trade assets. If it is on younger guys with more upside then make them longer.

Waiving Favs would also allow us to put out offers on the restricted guys... Brogdon, Russell (not one I like but Jazz might), etc. those guys likely don’t get offers from teams other than their own teams until after the moratorium ends.
 
Jingled said:
I agree that we need to surround Gobert with offensive weapons, which is why I think we'd be better off letting Favors go. Having Favors in the starting lineup is hurting Rudy on offense and Mitchell for that matter. We need to have a shooter at every position but center. The spacing with Rudy and Favors on the floor together is awful. I would much rather use the $18 million we're paying Favors to try and improve the offense.
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Favors is such a fundamentally sound player and likeable guy plus he could come off the bench and we wouldn't skip a beat with Gobert taking a rest. Against some teams when they play together the other team gets pummeled on the boards and there offense stalls like a 4 cylinder VW with 3 fouled plugs! I'm all for keeping both of them and finding a couple of better than average shooters with whatever other assets we may have, be them draft choices, dead contract trades or cap space cash. There are enough front office dummies out there that we should be able to find a couple shooters on the cheap!
 
infection said:
So is that what you’d bank an entire year on — getting a favorable bracket?
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We also would not have won against Portland if we shot 20% on open threes or whatever the hell the number was.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
We also would not have won against Portland if we shot 20% on open threes or whatever the hell the number was.
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Yeah, but, “if we woulda hit our threes, we woulda won.” Law of averages could be our strategy, I suppose.

Basically, I’m afraid DL is taking the same approach to the team as any wise person would their retirement plan — not checking the amount every day, consistently chipping away by putting money into index funds. It’s a really solid strategy for retirement. However, our situation is more like we have $100k in our 401k, but we owe Deebo $165k next week or we may get whacked. Yeah, slow and steady wins the race, but **** the 401k — life is on the line and you may as well withdraw that, take it to the roulette table and put it on red. Yeah, you could lose it all, but if you continue “slow investing,” you may lose your hand next week.
 
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