Where do we spend the Money? show yr 14 man roster

[Inside_Man]

Let's look at we have to spend.

The Hawks will have 7 players under contract for about $20 mil. Add in the number 2 pic at about $4 mil and you've got $24 mill commited, and with the new roster of 14 players you've got 6 roster spots open!

Now there's no way the Hawks are going up to the new $51mil cap cuz they're going to build this team slowly and right now they aren't selling enough tickets.

But the rules state the team HAS to spend 75% of the cap so that means the Hawks have to get close to 38 mil for their payroll which means they HAVE to drop another $14 mil to fill up those 6 roster spots.

So the first question is what inexpensive players get brought back from last year - Ivey, Donta, Obinna?

What about Lue? He'll cost a little more.

I'd keep Donta - Ivey and Lue are conditional unless we can get better in FA - replace Obinna with RandolphMorris from pic 31.

Stash the late second rounder, in the NBDL.

It seems to me they make one splash in the free agent market, which will be either Stomile or Dally. I prefer Dally, but Phila will match anything reasonable. Philly is committed to $78 mil next year before they sign Dally. If we offer enough, then he's ours. Is it worth overpaying for Dally? How does a Smoove, Dally, MWilliams front court in place for the long-term sound to you guys?

I think that's the route to go, and then within a year high-price quality PGs will want to play in the ATL!

Yo BK - Show Dally the money.

my 14 man roster this year.

MWill

Smoove

JChill

AL

Dally

Drobs

Collier (we're stuck with him for 1 more year)

Delk

Lue

RandolphMorris (pic31)

Diaw

Donta

Ivey

add 1 more FA.

[DawsonsCreek]

Deron Williams (1st rd)

Josh Smith

Josh Childress

Al Harrington

Stromile Swift (FA)

Randolph Morris (2nd rd)

Royal Ivey

Donta Smith

Boris Diaw

Predrag Drobnjak

Kevin Willis

Jason Collier

Tony Delk

Player 14 (Extra draft pick acquired on trade down to take deron) another forward?

[Spiral]

This isn't necessarily what I want, but if I had to guess our 14 roster spots, this would be my guess...

C Curry/Drobs/Collier

PF Harrington/David Anderson

SF Smoove/MWil/Donta/Diaw

SG Chillz/Julius Hodge

PG Watson/Ivey/Delk

[Spiral]

If everything went "perfect," my line-up would be...

C Bogut/David Anderson/Collier

PF Stromile/David Lee/Drobs

SF Smoove/Donta

SG Hughes/Chillz/Delk

PG Deron/McInnis/Ivey

[unknownjdb]

Realistic thoughts -

Bold = current roster members

(#) = draft selection

If we get Bogut...

McInnis / Ivey

Chillz / Delk / Diaw

Smoove / Bell / D.Smith

Harrington / Morris(31) / Drob

Bogut(2) / Anderson / Collier

If we go and stay with M.Will...

McInnis / Ivey

Chillz / Delk / Diaw

Smoove / M.Will(2) / D.Smith

Harrington / Morris(31) / Drob

Chandler / Anderson / Collier

If we trade #2/Al to NO for #4/Magloire...

D.Will(4) / Ivey

Chillz / Delk / Diaw

Smoove / Bell / D.Smith

Swift / Morris(31) / Drob

Magloire / Anderson / Collier

---probably my least favorite option---

If we trade #2 to CHA for #5/#13...

D.Will(5) / Ivey

Chillz / Delk / Diaw

Smoove / Bell / D.Smith

Harrington / Morris(31) / Drob

Chandler / Bynum(13) / Collier

If we can either cut Collier or add a 15th I'd get Dickau.

Those are my realistic scenarios.

[Iman]

I see way more changes happening than y'all do. I do like the idea of adding McGinnis if we dont draft a top point. I dont like Randolph Morris at all, would much rather draft Dwayne Jones or someone like that. Didnt we give Donta a 2yr guaranteed contract?

McGinnis, Jack(#19 from Memphis), Ivey(IR)

Chillz, Antoine Wright(trade Al for this pick),Luther

Head(31)

MWill, Donta(IR)

Smoove, Swift(3yrs/$18m),David Anderson(3yrs/$9m)

Stephen Hunter(3yrs/$12mil), Kwame(3yrs/$21m), Drobniak,

Jones(59)

Diaw goes back to France, we cut a buyout deal with Collier.

BK tries to buy Hughes by making a big offer for Kwame also, ends up with Kwame. If we cant get Jones at #59, we take that 7' HS prospect but if he's not ready we stash him in the NBDL and pick up Diop, etc.