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Originally Posted by fleury
Agreed with everything completely. Salmons needs to be replaced. The bench this year was incredible and played like solid 6th men. But back to Salmons again, the guy is useless at this stage. Slow, and almost emotionless in a bad way - he just didn't fit in. I was actually wrong about this team and Lowry this year and am so glad they did this well as a young team. Pretty much the St. Louis Blues of basketball. I don't know what their cap situation is, but aside from Salmons, I hope this team remains relatively intact. I don't think 1A FA signing will work for this team. There are certain concerns I have, and I'm not sure what comes of a guy like Ross. If it were me, I'd keep him, but then you have very similar players in Ross and DeRozan, and Ross won't have much development sharing time with him (but not good enough to be a starter yet as well). Real conundrum. Above all, where I think they have to address under the basket defensive defence. Way to many easy baskets under the basket this year, but also if they could get a solid player like Joe Johnson who can hit the 3, without overshadowing his teammates, that would be great. This is a real team atmosphere and anyone brought in can't overshadow that culture. While he wouldn't provide 3's, I wonder if JJ Hickson could be brought in?
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http://hoopshype.com/salaries/toronto.htm
On the website it looks like they have 41 million guaranteed. Reading around it looks like the salary cap is 63.2 million.
- My guess is Lowry signs a 4 year year extension at 12 mill
- The Raps choose to exercise Amirs option (7 mill)
- Qualify Patterson (4 mill)
- Resign Vasquez. (5 mill)
It seems unlikely that the Raps have cap space to target a FA unless they use the MLE (about 5 mill). Its up to the draft and trades to improve this team.