How can we make this current team a little stronger this year for a long playoff and not give away any of our current quality players on the roster?
There are teams out there that either need a tweak in their own rosters or are looking to blow things up for the season so lets start with
Trade #1 TO & DEN
Toronto trades Vasquez , Daye and Buycks + 1M
Denver trades Miller , Hamilton and 2nd rd pick (from Portland)
This gives us a better veteran point guard who knows how to run a team and would be and ideal player in reduced minutes behind Lowry. Hamilton is an expiring contract but would be good to have some depth in case of injury at the SF position. Miller has played his last game in Denver so they could really use a PG since Robinson went out.
Trade #2 - TO & HOU
Toronto trades Novak , 2014 2nd rd pick (from Thunder) , 2014 2nd rd pick (from Portland via Denver trade)
Houston trades Motiejunas and Garcia
Houston sits near the bottom of the league in 3pt shooting and Novak would be a good hired gun in that situation. Motiejunas is looking to find some more playing time and the possibility of hooking up with JV should be appealing. Garcia would be a nice bench player to have come in and play the 2 when needed.
Trade #3 - TO and NYK
Toronto trades Fields , Hayes and returns 2016 NYK 1st rd pick and 2017 NYK 2nd rd pick
New York trades Chandler and Udrih
Lets face it we need a quality back up center and yes we may be overpaying Chandler at 14M but when you look at the production we would have compared to what we will be getting out of Hayes and Fields. In reality the 2016 pick may really not be that valuable when the time comes around considering they will go thru a total rebuild after next season but in their eyes it may look better. New York is not going to anywhere this season so they may want to start the rebuild sooner.
In the end we go into the playoff hunt with this line up
JV / Chandler / Motiejunas
Amir / Patterson / Hansbrough
Ross / Salmons / Hamilton
DeRozan / Garcia / Stone
Lowry / Miller / Udrih
Thoughts?
There are teams out there that either need a tweak in their own rosters or are looking to blow things up for the season so lets start with
Trade #1 TO & DEN
Toronto trades Vasquez , Daye and Buycks + 1M
Denver trades Miller , Hamilton and 2nd rd pick (from Portland)
This gives us a better veteran point guard who knows how to run a team and would be and ideal player in reduced minutes behind Lowry. Hamilton is an expiring contract but would be good to have some depth in case of injury at the SF position. Miller has played his last game in Denver so they could really use a PG since Robinson went out.
Trade #2 - TO & HOU
Toronto trades Novak , 2014 2nd rd pick (from Thunder) , 2014 2nd rd pick (from Portland via Denver trade)
Houston trades Motiejunas and Garcia
Houston sits near the bottom of the league in 3pt shooting and Novak would be a good hired gun in that situation. Motiejunas is looking to find some more playing time and the possibility of hooking up with JV should be appealing. Garcia would be a nice bench player to have come in and play the 2 when needed.
Trade #3 - TO and NYK
Toronto trades Fields , Hayes and returns 2016 NYK 1st rd pick and 2017 NYK 2nd rd pick
New York trades Chandler and Udrih
Lets face it we need a quality back up center and yes we may be overpaying Chandler at 14M but when you look at the production we would have compared to what we will be getting out of Hayes and Fields. In reality the 2016 pick may really not be that valuable when the time comes around considering they will go thru a total rebuild after next season but in their eyes it may look better. New York is not going to anywhere this season so they may want to start the rebuild sooner.
In the end we go into the playoff hunt with this line up
JV / Chandler / Motiejunas
Amir / Patterson / Hansbrough
Ross / Salmons / Hamilton
DeRozan / Garcia / Stone
Lowry / Miller / Udrih
Thoughts?
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