Bobcats next year

Well they are not making the playoffs. Do you think they should keep what they have and build on it or blow it up too? I thought they had a playoff caliber team but they choked down the stretch this year enough to make me question it.

 

They need some quality backup at the SG/SF position. Felton switching over and a couple D-League guys aren't going to cut it.

There's several SG/SF types guys in the lottery, so hopefully we can pick up a James Harden, DeMar DeRozan or Tyreke Evans.

I'm sure they'll pick Curry and create even more PG/SG confusion.

They played over .500 ball over the second half of the season (after Diaw/Bell arrived) - .500 this year would get you in contention for the 5 spot. They just started so far in the hole that they couldn't pull themselves out.

 

Felton is likely going to sign with another team and make way for DJ to start. Bell is fine at the 2 but seems to be dinged up a lot.

I do not think Larry Brown is done tinkering with the roster. It would not surprise me to see a draft day trade.

 

It's tough to say what they're going to do. They can pretty much stand pat, just picking up a draft pick and re-signing Felton and be a middle of the pack playoff contender next season I think. But I don't know if that's good enough for Larry Brown. But even if he wants to continue to toy with the roster, I don't think there's really enough to trade that would get anything worth having in return.

 

I don't think Felton wants to leave (for some reason I believe that) so I'm hoping something can work out. I like the combination of Felton/DJ/Bell and another bigger 2 as all the guards we'd need. Definitely agree with the need of a 3, and it would be nice if either Muhammed or Diop were worth a shit. Got burned on both of those deals so that's going to hurt our cap for getting any help. I wouldn't be against trading Wallace for a J-Rich type deal but that doesn't seem likely. I think our best case scenario is bringing Felton back and adding a lottery (we're beyond due some luck as others have noted) pick and seeing what we can do next year. Probably can't get home court but it would be fun to see us in the playoffs regardless, plus it would give us a higher draft pick to send to Denver. I wish we could just send them Ajinca instead lol.

 

Bobcats control Felton next year with a 1 year qualifying offer for $5.5M.

It's why Ben Gordon is still with Bulls.

 

If they are healthy next year they should make the playoffs. They need some depth behind Bell since he is hurt a lot. Maybe they will get lucky in the draft....