What would be your next move then?

I think you could basically say Schenscher, Cadee, and resigning DJ and Creek would have basically cost the 36ers Ballingers salary last year and half a import salary.

Meaning we should still have the money for 1 decent import, 1 cheap import and Helliwell and Ngs spot, i'd retain Ng and replace Helliwell with a cheap big for basically the same money.

Lets just say 1 and half import spots is around 200k for which you need 2 players, so you could load up one say 150-170k on a stud and sign another cheap player for 30-50k (30k being min salary i think), thats the way id go.

I could be wrong with my salary (all guess work, i have no inside info) but if all is within the cap (1 mil) and we dont have around this much left we have overpaid for a player or 2 imo.

I heard Raheim Brown is a citizen soon? He lives locally now and has good international experience. Maybe an option for the right price to add depth to the bench.

Yea if he will play cheap(ish), definatly be a good 3rd big option, definatly trial him first though, and would allow us to still add another good (more expensive) import or Aussie in the SG spot.

Does Brown play ABL or anything?

ineedmore You seem to no who they are targeting?

Close 60k out!!

MACDUB, i agree with those salary guestimates, add in say 100k for Weigh and 60k for Crosswell, means we have spend 620k, anon above says 60k out so lets call it 680k

Which means we have 320k for the last 4 spots, So we could spend say 150k on a star import SG, 80k on a 2nd import (?PF/SF), 45k each to Ng and a back up Big.

Looks possible and good to me, could squeeze Ng and the back up big down to min (30k) if we want to spend more on the imports.

I wouldnt mind trying Ubaka for a min/low salary spot and getting the best Aussie (?Big) we can for 80k, and still sign Ng and a star import for 150k. Ubaka would be a bargain for that salary if we can get him, and gives us great flexibility with our final signings.

Come on EC, we are not claiming to know what these players are earning, i personally dont want to know, its none of my business, they are just guestimates of what we think they are worth under the salary cap, which gives us some idea of what money should/could be left to complete the roster, in a somewhat realistic fassion.

I think most people would agree that the guestimates made in this post would be fairly reasonable, if the actual pay is less then we have a bargain, if its too much more we have probably over paid for the player.

The only reason i do it is to see if we potentially have the cap space to add the players we would like to see added, without being too unrealistic, we could be way out, but i reckon we would be reasonably close judging from past seasons, and guestimates made and how the roster was completed.

anon : better value than 180k for not even half a season.

@ Anon thats not even close, you are making shit up!

@ ANON This is the Anon i was refering to

rumors from inside Luke 200,DJ140, Mitch 100,Weigh 100,Crossy 80, not much room for imports when you include Cadee , lets wait and see

Not even close!!

I saw Raheim Brown shooting around with Mitch Creek. I also heard that it wasn't that he wanted to be paid to train, just that he was worried his insurance wouldnt cover him if he were injured. Either way for the right price, as a local, would be a great depth player!!

Is he naturalised or close to it? could be worth signing him even as a cheap import if they think he is the right fit and really he just needs to be a 6th man level who can play decent defense and rebound, they dont need a star in the back up big spot imo. If he naturalised after say 1 season that would be even better.

Pretty decent college numbers averaged around 16pts, 8rbds, 1 assist, 2 blks, 1 stl in his final year, also around 14pts 7 rebounds in NZ last year which also isnt too bad.

He should have a run with a SEABL/ABL team or something to really show his wears, but being local and being able to train with the team right now would have to be an advantage also.

I saw that too Camel he like a few of us said the imports will probably be a SG and a back up PF.