Re: some thoughts

["JLyell" <jlyell@concentric.net>]

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> 	I brought it up several months ago and I'll bring it up again.
> Sam Cassell will be a free agent this year.  He's got all the skills and
> height (6'3") and championship experience to be an impact point guard.
> And he's younger than David Wesley.  Even if we get Duncan, we'll still
> need a banger type to compliment him.  So we should take a look at
Stanley
> Roberts and Brian Williams.  Before giving out any long term contracts 
> (even to David Wesley- our MVP this year) we need to realize that
> Stoudamire is a free agent in '98 and Marbury will be one in '99.  Of
> course it might not be right to try to pry him away from McHale but it's
> survival of the fittest out there.
> 	But since the free agency market won't be that big this year
> there was no sense of urgency to dump Dino, Dee, and Dana.  And since
they
> all were injured and have long term contracts (the worst of both worlds
> when you're trying to deal someone), they were impossible to get rid of.
> Hopefully they will be able to produce next year and we'll be able to
move
> at least one of them in a cap-friendly deal.
> 	We really need to be careful about over-rating our own players.
> Resigning Rick Fox to anything more than a two year deal would be a big
> mistake.  He is playing the best ball of his career right now, but as
> Williams and Walker develop, there will be a logjam of monumental
> proportions at the 3 spot.  I definitally would prefer that we renounce
> him and make a move for Cassell.
> 
> Jeremy
> 

Cassell could be a possibility, but wants $5-7M a year and is not even
close to worth that much.  No way on Roberts, he is a huge stiff who has
only played about 40% of the games over the last 3 years due to injury.
Williams is a flake, but would be helpful if in the $2-4M range but he
thinks he is in the $6-8M range.

We need a decision on Fox & Williams before we sign them to long term
deals.  With Fox's recent play he could be gone to the highest bidder, &
along with Day, Lister, Brickowski, Hamer, & Szabo that frees up about $7M
?


There should be a sense of urgency to dump Dee & Dana & maybe Dino to
anyone who will give us decent compensation, or at least someone with a
short contract to free up some cap for '98 ? 
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