Can’t quite explain it, but I felt very satisfied in being given the opportunity to rate the moves on a scale of one to ten.

Get it done KP.

I would light myself on fire

I would put the chance that Freeland will be on the roster next season high (ca. 70%). KP seems legitimately excited about him as a player to round out the rotation on power forward (and as an emergency center).

However I would put the chance that Koponen will be on the roster very low (ca. 5%). In fact, it’s likely his rights will be thrown into some deal to facilitate it and get rid of the small cap hold (he was rumored at the deadline in a potential Nets deal). He had no significant impact on his team in Italy last year, and will need several more to become a legitimate NBA candidate.

I agree about the players you would like to drop, and probably the most improved ones. But while I really like Bayless he is at best at least a year of playing regularly away from taking the starting spot. So starting point guard would be the first position I would address.

If acquiring Hedo to get a veteran and make Travis and Martell available for later trades is the way to go that might work. But Hedo will eat up all cap space and is not a good defender, so KP would have to think long and hard about adding him.

I like Turkey-glue but I agree with Norsk’s thoughts on him.

Joel Freeland>Tyler Hansbrough.

for it means something terrible would’ve happened to KP, and or KP’s brain. Bringing in Koponen, drafting Psycho T, making the free agent you get a 31 year old dude that takes tons of minutes away from Batum, starting Bayless when he’s not even ready to be a backup, then moving Batum to the third string cutting off all of his minutes. This offseason would set this team back 3 or 4 years.

Like it, but Bayless would have to work damn hard on his jumper, Hedo could only have a short-term deal, and Koponen may not fit.. would prefer a veteran pg.

-Tyler

Tyler Hansbrough is the answer. He is the missing link to a championship. Even Chad Ford said he’s better than expected.

Personally I think we can get an even better player than Hedo for our many assets. Not being arrogant or homeristic—-I just seriously think we can. But yeah, I like the thinking. Your proposal is quite realistic, which is what I like in off-season move proposals. :-)

8*2/4+(8*3)-2+6^2-23/((6+2)*9)

I see going down are either Hedo or Kidd. Even though I feel good about Blake if KP is going to make a move I would prefer Kidd for these reasons:

On a starting/crunch time lineup it would ideally be the big 3 and a PG and a SF. With the big 3 as constructed, we need one more perimeter shot creator and one perimeter defender for the opposing teams best threat. The main reason that Outlaw was on the floor in the 4th was due to the fact that besides Roy, he was the only other player who could get his own shot on this team, leaving Blake to be the defender.
 

Hedo is a great shot creator but average on defense which would leave the D stopper position to the PG who at around 6’ would not be able to guard 66-75% of the league due to the height differential.

However if we were able to grab Kidd he or Bayless could be our shot creator and with the handcheck rules as they are they would be the most logical choice. Blake is good but he cannot finish at the rim the way Bayless and Kidd can.

By having the shot creator at the point that leaves the D stopper position to the SF. Being that most SFs are 6’6 to 6’10 they have the greatest range of players that they can defend.

Quick PGs are defended best with great team D due to handcheck rules, or good helpside athletic SFs of Cs to support the defending PG and larger slower PGs can be nullified by a long athletic wingman such as Batum. Add on to the fact that Nic can also handle SGs and other SFs relatively well for a rookie and once he puts on some weight to hold his ground he will be set.

So in conclusion, to me it would see that having a versatile defensive SF in Batum and a shot creating PG in Kidd or Bayless would be a better option than a defensive PG (which is an oxymoron anyways) and a shot creating SF in Hedo.

I’ve heard that Petteri and Joel are both years away still from having any impact in the NBA. Hansbrough might be good, or he might be awful. I’m not sold on him having any kind of impact in the NBA anywhere near what he had in college. I’d imagine Hedo is going to resign with Orlando, why would he leave? Unless I missed something.