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johnjohnW
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Posted: 10/17/21 5:50 pm ::: Phoenix Mercury 2022 |
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One more year? #goat
I say shuffle the deck on every roster player other than BG, SDS, DT, Turner and maybe Cunningham. Toss up on keeping Peddy.
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PickledGinger
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Posted: 10/17/21 5:55 pm ::: Re: Phoenix Mercury 2022 |
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johnjohnW wrote: |
One more year? #goat
I say shuffle the deck on every roster player other than BG, SDS, DT, Turner and maybe Cunningham. Toss up on keeping Peddy. |
A healthy Bria Hartley is an asset. Who knows how often that's gonna happen.
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SCook
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Posted: 10/17/21 5:57 pm ::: Re: Phoenix Mercury 2022 |
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johnjohnW wrote: |
One more year? #goat
I say shuffle the deck on every roster player other than BG, SDS, DT, Turner and maybe Cunningham. Toss up on keeping Peddy. |
Bria should be kept. Vaughan, Walker and Smith need to be gone like tonight.
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SCook
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Posted: 10/17/21 5:58 pm ::: Re: Phoenix Mercury 2022 |
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PickledGinger wrote: |
johnjohnW wrote: |
One more year? #goat
I say shuffle the deck on every roster player other than BG, SDS, DT, Turner and maybe Cunningham. Toss up on keeping Peddy. |
A healthy Bria Hartley is an asset. Who knows how often that's gonna happen. |
Well she'll be healthier than Kia Nurse when the season starts so I think she's a lock.
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TotalCardinalMove
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Posted: 10/17/21 6:08 pm ::: |
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Rebecca Allen would be an interesting addition. She’s one heck of a defender on the perimeter and maybe the Opals connection to Sandy will be useful if PHX is interested. She seems to really like it in NY.
With no picks, all moves would have to be done through free agency. Im okay with Peddy not returning.
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mercfan3
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Posted: 10/17/21 6:24 pm ::: |
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First things first, we need the GOAT back.
Second, freaking sign Sophie.
Assuming these two things happen
Diggins/Hartley
Diana/Hartley
Sophie/??
Turner/??
Brit/??
If we could get one capable wing and one capable post, we’d be set.
IMO, we lost cause of depth - some not our fault. I thought Bria would be ready to go earlier, Diana was injured the whole year, and Nurse was injured.
But some we knew going into the season…aka..no back up post player.
Gotta give the starters some rest. If we could get a backup that could play both PF and Center that would be ideal..and assuming we get DT and Sophie back..should be our first concern (as we could probably do with a four guard rotation with Diana stepping Into the 3 spot occasionally.)
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SCook
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Posted: 10/17/21 6:29 pm ::: |
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Turner has to develop her shot!!!!!!!!!! I cannot express this enough!!!!
Now that that is out of the way, I think the biggest concerns are keeping Sophie and a backup Center. We have to stop playing BG for 35 to 40 minutes a night.
Who are the free agent posts that aren't too expensive? What's the options we have?
I love Peddy but I believe we can find someone else to play at the 1/2. Smith, Vaughan, and Walker need to go! I would like to develop Walker but I don't know if Sandy has those capabilities.
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mercfan3
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Posted: 10/17/21 7:00 pm ::: |
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SCook wrote: |
Turner has to develop her shot!!!!!!!!!! I cannot express this enough!!!!
Now that that is out of the way, I think the biggest concerns are keeping Sophie and a backup Center. We have to stop playing BG for 35 to 40 minutes a night.
Who are the free agent posts that aren't too expensive? What's the options we have?
I love Peddy but I believe we can find someone else to play at the 1/2. Smith, Vaughan, and Walker need to go! I would like to develop Walker but I don't know if Sandy has those capabilities. |
We’ve got Hartley already. If she was healthy this year, Peddy wouldn’t have had the chance to play, so she isn’t a necessity now..although if we can fit her in and she wants to come back..I’d like to have her.
And yes, agree completely on Turner (then she’d be an all star..) and backup post. No more Vaughn.
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mercfan3
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mercfan
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Posted: 10/17/21 8:57 pm ::: |
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We have the best player in the world. What are we going to put around her to win a title and how are we going to pay for it?
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PUmatty
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Posted: 10/17/21 9:05 pm ::: |
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mercfan wrote: |
We have the best player in the world. What are we going to put around her to win a title and how are we going to pay for it? |
Breanna Stewart plays for Phoenix?
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TotalCardinalMove
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Iluvacc
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Posted: 10/17/21 9:32 pm ::: |
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PUmatty wrote: |
mercfan wrote: |
We have the best player in the world. What are we going to put around her to win a title and how are we going to pay for it? |
Breanna Stewart plays for Phoenix? |
You’re on a roll tonight 🤣🤣
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Cooper2009
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TotalCardinalMove
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Rock Hard
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Posted: 10/17/21 11:15 pm ::: |
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Charles put up MVP numbers this season. She should be getting a MAX SALARY from any team that wants her services.
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mercfan
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Posted: 10/17/21 11:26 pm ::: |
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Rock Hard wrote: |
Charles put up MVP numbers this season. She should be getting a MAX SALARY from any team that wants her services. |
If she wants what she says she wants, she can’t be taking that kind of money.
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TotalCardinalMove
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Posted: 10/17/21 11:43 pm ::: |
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Rock Hard wrote: |
Charles put up MVP numbers this season. She should be getting a MAX SALARY from any team that wants her services. |
She’s already said THIS offseason that what she wants most is to win a championship. Not many current contenders will be able to legitimately give her the max if that’s what she wants.
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mercfan
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Posted: 10/17/21 11:54 pm ::: |
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TotalCardinalMove wrote: |
Rock Hard wrote: |
Charles put up MVP numbers this season. She should be getting a MAX SALARY from any team that wants her services. |
She’s already said THIS offseason that what she wants most is to win a championship. Not many current contenders will be able to legitimately give her the max if that’s what she wants. |
But sign me up! As long as Turner is still able to make a major defensive impact off the bench, that’s a healthy team away from a title.
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J-Spoon
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Posted: 10/18/21 1:13 am ::: |
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mercfan wrote: |
Rock Hard wrote: |
Charles put up MVP numbers this season. She should be getting a MAX SALARY from any team that wants her services. |
If she wants what she says she wants, she can’t be taking that kind of money. |
Charles is in a weird position
some teams could offer her the max Atl maybe Dallas
other teams could offer her less like PX might be able to scrape together 120k if they give her Vaughn's money and they swap out Walker for a minimum contract (As it is PX is going to have trouble signing their own free agents another team can easily out bid them for Cunningham or Nurse anything above 90K will be hard fro them to match).
but with the ring hunting talk she could just take less and stay with Washington or if Cambage doesn't return LV could probably make a better offer than PX
Charles is definitely a player to watch in the off season
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J-Spoon
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Posted: 10/18/21 4:04 am ::: |
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Not trying to be a jerk but with PX's lack of cap space something like this seems quite possible
SDS/Heal(Minumum)
Hartley/Peddy(slightly above minimum)
Taurasi/Bradford(slightly above minimum)
Turner/Breland(slightly above vet minimum)/Smith(Minimum) or Walker
Griner/Plaisance(vet minimum)
If PX cuts Vaughn they have about 350K for 5 players or about 70K a player and that is if they go with 11 again.
Maybe they can hold onto Cunningham or Nurse but they would have to hope no other team comes at them with 90k contracts because that would price them out.
Player like Bradford, Breland and Plaisance could contribute and they might be the type of players that won't be getting as competitive of offers as say Nurse or Cunningham (I could be wrong).
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TotalCardinalMove
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Posted: 10/18/21 7:02 am ::: |
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J-Spoon wrote: |
Not trying to be a jerk but with PX's lack of cap space something like this seems quite possible
SDS/Heal(Minumum)
Hartley/Peddy(slightly above minimum)
Taurasi/Bradford(slightly above minimum)
Turner/Breland(slightly above vet minimum)/Smith(Minimum) or Walker
Griner/Plaisance(vet minimum)
If PX cuts Vaughn they have about 350K for 5 players or about 70K a player and that is if they go with 11 again.
Maybe they can hold onto Cunningham or Nurse but they would have to hope no other team comes at them with 90k contracts because that would price them out.
Player like Bradford, Breland and Plaisance could contribute and they might be the type of players that won't be getting as competitive of offers as say Nurse or Cunningham (I could be wrong). |
Maybe, but realistically speaking I’d be pretty surprised if a team threw 90k at Cunningham. Not because she doesn’t deserve it, but that’s really the kind of money you’d hope to spend on someone that’ll come in and start. Which teams across the league have that kind of money to spend? Atlanta and maybe Dallas? But when you think of what Dallas has, it probably wouldn’t make sense to spend that kind of money on another wing.
Nurse is a little more likely to get an offer like that, but with her ACL injury happening as late as it did who knows. If a team threw nearly 100k at her, the first year of any contract would be spent rehabbing. I’m sure some teams might be willing to take that risk, but again, how many teams realistically have all that money to spend?
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Force10rulz
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Posted: 10/18/21 8:52 am ::: |
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PUmatty wrote: |
mercfan wrote: |
We have the best player in the world. What are we going to put around her to win a title and how are we going to pay for it? |
Breanna Stewart plays for Phoenix? |
🤣 we’d core her before we’d let her go. If Sue comes back and Stewie stays healthy we win our 5th ship.
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PUmatty
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Posted: 10/18/21 9:00 am ::: |
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Honest question: Why do people thing Cunningham will be in Phoenix next season? Mercury could have made that happen and chose not to. What is the reasoning that they will change their mind and want to keep her? Why would Cunningham choose to stay after Phoenix tried to cut her loose?
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