In Honor of Fred - Hinrich GONE

[J-Mart]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/draft2...ory?id=5324240

Discuss

[NealKleren]

Im glad they at least got rid of one of the two. I would have rather seen Deng gone but it would be harder to move his contract. Im glad we have enough money for two free agents now though,the hype will be even crazier now. Now this makes me think the wizards might want to move arenas.

[Bullseye]

Noooo way, not the captain!

But yesterday Gar Forman said the Bulls will use their pick. So there is a little hope he´ll stay.

[J-Mart]

Are you saying you would rather have Hinrich over another max free agent? I believe we are only a couple million shy of getting that second max free agent spot. Good riddance, we needed to dump his bad contract regardless. The player we sign will no doubt be better than Hinrich

[Bullseye]

Yeah of course we can get a better player in return. We at least have to try it.

But what do you think about having only 5 players under contract going into the next season. I hardly doubt we can add a strong bench till the next season.

[TheStig]

I'd rather dealt deng. This deal leaves us 2.2 mill shy of a 2nd max deal, Deng makes 2.35 mill more. Not to mention I could live with Kirk as a starting sg next year as the 5th starter with Rose, Bron, Bosh and Noah, more than Deng off the bench. I wonder if this means we might be getting Bosh and JJ over Bron or if Deng was just unmovable.

[Diddy1122]

Bullseye wrote:

Yeah of course we can get a better player in return. We at least have to try it.

But what do you think about having only 5 players under contract going into the next season. I hardly doubt we can add a strong bench till the next season.

Add 2 max FA's & that's 7 which a normal coaches rotation is usually 7-9 players anyway. Plus I'm certain Alexander, Law, & Kurz will all be in training camp & none of them are going to command anything more than the minimum at best.

And who needs a strong bench when we'll be starting 3 all-stars & a potential 4th. Great move & to me this indicates that we'll look to get JJ & Bosh & possibly skip over Bron, though I'd rather have Bron than JJ.

[TheStig]

If you want a bench, trade Deng for Piertus and Gortat.

[Diddy1122]

TheStig wrote:

If you want a bench, trade Deng for Piertus and Gortat.

I'd do that in a heartbeat. Gortat is severely underrated IMO & Pietrus' D would be killer under Thibs.

[TheStig]

Diddy1122 wrote:

TheStig wrote:

I'd do that in a heartbeat. Gortat is severely underrated IMO & Pietrus' D would be killer under Thibs.

I think its great too but it might need to be Piertus and Bass so we can offer up to max deals. Gortat and Piertus make a little more than Deng. Piertus and Bass make 2 mill less than Deng and puts us about 150k off from 2 full max deals. Plus if we have to give up Gbson in a s& t bass is a good replacement off the bench.