Is valuable to us, too. Let it expire and clear cap room for the future.

I’m pretty happy with our roster right now.

Steve Blake for Raymond felton? lol, the pritchslaps continue.

Let’s start with 1) we conserved all of our cap space; 2) we now have 4 – #2’s next year; and then 3, we have some pieces we may or may not choose to deal. LaFentz will go, and then in addition to Roy, Bayless, Fernandez, and Blake, we have both Koponen and Segio. And then, of course, we have Diogu as the 5th man at the PF/C spot, and Batum as the 3rd small forward. And if we were to actually look for a “closer” at SF, then we might look at Webster as well. So, if you look at it. We have a lot of room to maneuver. (LaFrentz, Sergio or Koponen or both, Batum or Webster, and possibly Diogu.

KP likes his top 10, said so, and has plenty of chips.

for the first half of the season to develop them as potential trade bait to package with RLEC for a big midseason trade.

Bayless is a hell of a pickup (I wouldn’t have dreamed before yesterday that he’d have been available) but the kid’s 19. I’d give the bulk of the backup pg minutes to Sergio until the trade deadline.

We should keep this roster (every key player) until the trade deadline at the very least, and maybe the whole season if the team is gelling and nothing great comes up with trades. The only trade I would like to do during the summer to consolidate a little bit is Sergio and Diogu for an expiring contract we can put on the inactive list and a good future first round pick. That leaves us with two units of:

Bayless/Roy/Webster/Aldridge/Oden
and
Blake/Fernandez/Outlaw/Frye/Pryzbilla
while
Koponen and Batum pick up the remaining scrap minutes and the rest are inactive

No reasons to complain; every single player in that rotation is quality. That roster itself could develop into a championship contender. If we stick with the roster for the season and it still has major issues to address, we can evaluate where we are and make moves with our cap space next summer. We’re in a pretty nice place right now.

I think we’ll play this out for 40-50 games. Then, we might see all the thoughts come together in some action related to cap/the #2’s/and a few players. We’ll see. Right now we seem to have a little too much of a good thing. Which is better than having too little. Bayless was the real deal here. And Batum may surprise. He only took an average of 7.6 shots per game last year. Think what his stats would have been if he had been taking what most of the US youngsters were taking – which is 15 – 20 per game. KP and Mac like this kid. And as Fernandez showed, we can’t under-estimate their judgement. There may be not just smoke – but some fire here which the way Batum was used on his last team didn’t showcase. If so – hang on. We may already have a pretty good “next” SF on the team – and not know it yet.

I have a feeling that we haven’t seen it all yet. After listening to the press conference last night it sounded like there was more to come, as if there was some thing else done last night, but we have to wait until July 1, or the FA market to find it all out. I think he pulled off some good moves last night, but what has been reported in the media so far just doesn’t seem like enough to put him on “cloud nine”. He’s done more/better in the past, so I still have my seatbelt on, waiting for the real deal to be revealed.

Anyone else have this feeling?

i agree. When KP says “we” hit a homerun, you have to let that settle in. Batum was top 15 last year, then played on a team where everyone played in the team concept and only got 7.6 shots per game. Double it, and he could well have been a top 10 this year. Bayless, in turn, was projected by many to be a future all-star. If you buy into the fact that KP believes this, then you have 4 very strong young players right now, plus the possibilities at SF, and then our second line at PG, SG, PF and Center. And I don’t really know what we’d be looking for until we let everyone play together for awhile. And, keep in mind, if KP is right again, as he was on Roy and Aldridge, then we have a powerhouse building up. Just what would we be looking for now? I can’t find a weakness other than youth and inexperience. But that will solve itself.