2016 Off-Season Thread

[Q5Magic 2]

So who do you guys think the Magic will realistically try to trade for this off-season?

 

http://hoopshype.com/2016/03/05/nba-free-agency-2016-the-top-players/

[Fultz4thewin 2,464]

here's the realistic targets:

 

Point Guard:

 

Conley is the only starting point guard upgrade.

 

Jeremy Lin might be an interesting backup if we go that route

 

super dark horse (a la Hennigan trading afflalo for Fournier)- Jordan Clarkson

 

 

Wings:

 

Upgrades in order of who the top targets will be:

 

1. Durant

2. DeRozan

3. Batum

 

 

interesting backups if we go that route:

 

Courtney lee

Luol Deng

Jared Dudley

Bazemore but he might cost too much now

 

Super Dark Horse- Harrison Barnes

 

Power Forward:

 

Don't think we go after a starter here. think we want to let Gordon grow.

 

Backups: Dwight Powell

 

 

Center:

 

1. Al Horford

2. Whiteside

 

Backups- Ian Mahinmi maybe Tyler Zeller. Noah

 

Dark Horse: Dwight

[Mauro Pedrosa 824]

We stand pat and win 39 games next season

[Fultz4thewin 2,464]

Potential guys on the trade block:

 

Atlanta:

 

Millsap, Teague

 

Chicago:

 

Jimmy Butler, Taj Gibson

 

Cleveland:

 

Kyrie, Love, Shumpert

 

Denver:

 

Gallinari, Faried, Chandler

 

Milwaukee:

 

John Henson

 

Minnesota:

 

Gorgui Dieng, Shabazz

 

New Orleans:

 

Jrue Holiday

 

Philly:

 

Jerami Grant

 

Phoenix:

Chandler, Knight, Bledsoe

 

Utah:

 

Favors

[Ryan the Magic Fan 253]

here's the realistic targets:

 

Point Guard:

 

Conley is the only starting point guard upgrade.

 

Jeremy Lin might be an interesting backup if we go that route

 

super dark horse (a la Hennigan trading afflalo for Fournier)- Jordan Clarkson

 

 

Wings:

 

Upgrades in order of who the top targets will be:

 

1. Durant

2. DeRozan

3. Batum

 

 

interesting backups if we go that route:

 

Courtney lee

Luol Deng

Jared Dudley

Bazemore but he might cost too much now

 

Super Dark Horse- Harrison Barnes

 

Power Forward:

 

Don't think we go after a starter here. think we want to let Gordon grow.

 

Backups: Dwight Powell

 

 

Center:

 

1. Al Horford

2. Whiteside

 

Backups- Ian Mahinmi maybe Tyler Zeller. Noah

 

Dark Horse: Dwight

 

Level with me man... do you think there is any way Dwight wears an Orlando jersey next season? Legitimate question and not trolling at all.

[Fultz4thewin 2,464]

Our GM, Bradley Cooper, had a press conference and said "we're going to be ambitious, at the same time though we'll be disciplined"

 

i.e. we're going to go after Durant but if we fail we're not going to throw a bunch of money at Evan Turner.

[Fultz4thewin 2,464]

Level with me man... do you think there is any way Dwight wears an Orlando jersey next season? Legitimate question and not trolling at all.

 

sure,

 

but about the same chance as Durant coming here. A lot of things need to happen for Dwight to come back. We'd have to strike out on a lot of players, Dwight would need to take a significant pay cut, etc.

[Fultz4thewin 2,464]

there's a pretty reasonable chance that our starting roster next season is something like Payton-butler-batum-Gordon-Horford.

[Mauro Pedrosa 824]

Batum ain't leaving. I'm positive

[Fultz4thewin 2,464]

Batum ain't leaving. I'm positive

 

There's a reasonable chance they wont pay him the max considering they have MKG making 13 million and a big hole at center.

 

EDIT: I'm also operating on the assumption that they'd rather have Marvin Williams than Batum if forced to choose.

[Air Gordon 156]

I'd be thrilled with Batum. I've been a huge fan of his for a long time.

 

Question for everyone, who of the young core would you trade if we had to deal one of them to upgrade? My order from person I'd mind traded from least to most is

Vucevic

Payton

Hezonja

Oladipo

Gordon

[Q5Magic 2]

I would love to have Horford and and DeRozan, but I feel like we would have to overpay a lot to bring them here. Conley would be a nice fit too if we could pry him away. I'm just curious to see if Hennigcan makes a big splash this off-season or next. There's a sense of urgency within the organization and fanbase to win now but Hennigan knows theres also some talen in next years free agency as well.