How will May's injury impact the team?

[Muttley]

Thanks Dav7z.

Also, thanks for the response Mustachio. I definitely think that most people haven't given AMMO the shot he needs to be successful. I know I'm bound to pull for the guy just because he's a bobcat, but I really do expect improvement from him this year. He will contribute, I'm sure of it. It would be really disheartening if not, because it probably means that he didn't get off the bench. All that would do is keep his worth low and make him a steal for some other team if we trade him.

[dav7z]

Mustachio i agree with much of what you say . That probely doesn't affect our cap . Wish it did and it should.
As far as Ammo i wouldn't give him away either. If he had no value then i say keep him. But hears where i think we differ i think he still has value. Hears a couple of guys we might get even for Ammo. They might not have enough value to trade for.1st Krstic from NJ. Hes under rated and is a 16 and 7 player fairly young. NJ will not play him a lot because of adding J Mcgloire
2nd Pachillia from the Hawks hes a 12 and 7 guy .And we all know Hartford is starting and Williams is backing him up. It may not take Ammo to get him May be just a second and Harringtons contract . Thats 2,2 paid by insurance.
Harrington or May plus a second could land us a decent big from teams over the lux tax.
All that said we still thin up frunt . I can't feel good about Premoz any more at all.He might be another trading peice it's a favorable contract. Botom line we need at least one big we can count on . Not just a couple of projects.

[dvdbumpus]

I think where Adam will be very useful is @ SF when Crash gets moved to the 4 and we play small ball. I think Adam will be better prepared this year.

This year I expect this from Adam:

14 pts, 3 boards, 1.5 assists 45% FG and 39% from 3 - land.

[davcbow]

We can only hope. I hope he comes out and kicks butt this year to hush his critics and up his value....

[ziggy]

I think where Adam will be very useful is @ SF when Crash gets moved to the 4 and we play small ball. I think Adam will be better prepared this year.

This year I expect this from Adam:

14 pts, 3 boards, 1.5 assists 45% FG and 39% from 3 - land.

I think thats very realistic Bumpus.
This year he'll get the chance to match up against a lot of 2nd units, and whenever he is on the floor with the 1st unit, he won't be getting the opponents top defender like he did last year. Those guys will be too busy trying to contain Crash or J-Rich.

[dav7z]

We can only hope. I hope he comes out and kicks butt this year to hush his critics and up his value....

Well ever sence MAY goes down all we talking about how good Ammo is going to be . No one seems to care how thin we are up frount. If we don't make sone kind of move to add a big . Don't come back crying when we win 35 games this year tops. No May don't make that big of a differance by his self. But when you forced to start a project at the five you can't blame the kid . You have to blame the higher ups for not handling the problem. BUT when we lose because of all this just put Ammo in . He seems to be the savior and you be happy to lose.................. Most of you agree Amoo is the answer to the problem i don't. He MIGHT be a decent role player but thats it.

[spectre]

Yeah, I've seen Dav7z ask this at least 3 times now, with no answer.

With insurance pays May's salary for the year, then how does that affect the cap?

As much detail as some of you guys know about the cap system, someone should at least have a guess at this.  I'd be interested to know too.  Thanks.

REP IT UP MUTTLEY , If any one knows please tell us or even lie good .lol

My take...

I'm going to assume insurance will pick up May's salary, but it doesn't reduce our overall salary in regards to capspace nor do we get an added roster spot.  To do that, we have to get an injury exception...that DOES allow for more money to be spent (half the injured player's salary...approx. 0.9 million in this case) AND an extra roster spot.

Now less than a million is pretty worthless as we can sign a player to a vet min deal anyway...but considering we have 15 guaranteed contracts the extra roster spot should be a big deal IMO.  Thing is, the NBA seems very frugal in giving out that injury exception...they didn't give it to ORL when Hill went down.

He seems to be the savior and be happy to lose.................. Most of you agree Amoo is the answer to the problem i don't.

Amazing how 2 months can change one's perceptions eh?  IMO it's best to keep the expectations low with Ammo else the disappointment will rival last year.

BTW, Marc Jackson has reportedly signed with a Euro team.

[dav7z]

Our first preseason game is the Magic . How many of you think Hollins last 15 mins against Howard with out being in foul truble. We have no banger at all.

[spectre]

Our first preseason game is the Magic . How many of you think Hollins last 15 mins against Howard with out being in foul truble. We have no banger at all.

Funny, I was JUST thinking about the Magic and how we'd match up.  Assuming they run:

Nelson
Bogans/Dooling/JJ
Hedo
Lewis
Dwight

It'd appear we match up best with Fabio in there instead of Hollins, as both Hedo and Lewis are perimeter type offensive players. I agree though; after Mek there's no one to pair up against Dwight.

[Mustachio]

First of all you guys are underestimating coaching!

Felton can and will guard Nelson fine.
Richardson will smother whoever they wanna put in at SG.
Crash will absolutely smother Hedo.. like completely
Heres where you think the problems start.

But i dont agree. Let Dwight get his... he wont have more than 40 points. Just coach Hollins to play with his hands in the air and make it a little tough on Dwight... make it so that all he needs to worry about is help D and rebounds. Then shut down everyone else.