What to do with the open roster spot

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Now that we have an open roster spot following the Hammer & Twiggy for Diop trade, what do you LB and Bobcats management will do with it?
Snag someone out of the D-League? If so, who are the likeliest candidates?
If not that, do we leave it open until another deal goes down?

What do you think?

[ohara831]

My hope is there is another deal going down and we fill it with someone LB really wants and has a plan for using. That would be nice. Cannot see us filling it with a D-Leager or signing someone currently out of the league. That has too much potential to be just be a waste of $ and a roster spot. I trust LB to get someone he wants.

[spectre]

I want to use that spot to help facilitate another trade...maybe get a pick and/or move Nazr in the process. Another wing who could play both the 2 & the 3 with potential would be nice.

Use the damn advantage for once.

[TattoodCatswife]

I think another trade is coming up where they are going to combo felton/nazr and we are going to get 2-3 players back

[amour217]

Auction it on ebay

[polarcat]

i'd rather combine nazr and felts for a quality sg over quantity that brings 3 players back. we're stacked down low so i'm hoping the combo of two of our players nets us 1 really good shooter/scorer. i don't know what happened with livingston in memphis/miami/wherever, but i wonder how bad that knee is. at 23 years old and his height, i wouldn't mind bringing him in to help with dj14 and singletary. if his injury is another may situation then i don't know who to pursue in the d or free agency.

[TattoodCats4life]

I say we do a combination of things with it actually... Lets bring up the best 2 guard the D-league has to offer (don't ask I have no clue who that is, I know Coby Carl isn't too bad and has good NBA experience) on a 10 day contract...if they are good go for one more 10 day....THEN if we want that guy who now should have 10-12 games (didnt look at our next 20 days but we are starting to get heavy into the season where we play lots) and can decide if we do a 2 for 3 trade or f we do a 2 for 2 trade and keep our new D-League player... Money isn't the object, because a D-League player gets something like $40k on a 10 day contract (I think its min salary times the number of games they play actually) and we can drop them at a moment's notice if a trade we cant pass up comes along.

[ammofan]

Auction it on ebay

nobody wants to play for us

[BobCatsFanInTx]

My hope is there is another deal going down and we fill it with someone LB really wants and has a plan for using. That would be nice. Cannot see us filling it with a D-Leager or signing someone currently out of the league. That has too much potential to be just be a waste of $ and a roster spot. I trust LB to get someone he wants.

I don't know Ohara, I kind of think that we should only fill the roster spot with ten day contracts. I don't think that is too big a risk and in my way of thinking it could turn out a bonus if the player we sign plays well. The D-League was created to give players a future shot at NBA glory and I don't think signing a D-League player to a ten day is much of a risk. We still have some time til the trade deadline so why not just use the ten day contracts now and see where we are by the deadline? I just know it is a matter of time before a star comes out of the D-League.

With all that said, aside from a trade there really isn't any options for the team to fill the empty spot. Unless we want to take players who have not performed that are free agents.
With the D-League there is plenty of players who have yet to see NBA playing time and should get that chance. I don't see a trade that brings us anything greater than Diop unless the team trades one of our core players. As the team is, it would be wrong to mess with the chemistry the team has begun to establish imo.

[SWedd523]

Derrick Byars out of Vanderbilt would be good here. He's a 6'7'' SG/SF and is really solid all around. I'd love to give him a try