Originally Posted by luther

This is very true. And worse, I don't think it's just a McHale thing. It's a cold-weather state with a mid-sized market. We couldn't draw free agents of note to play alongside Kevin Garnett, so to think we can do so without him is probably overly optimistic.

That's my problem with just hording cap space. Historically around the league, unless you're an LA team, a Florida team or NY, it's only moderately valuable. Smaller-market teams still end up greatly overpaying players just to get them to sign. The way to build this team is going to have to be primarily through the draft and trades, with free agents being signed more on a limited--to fill strategic needs--basis (i.e., a shooter, a backup big, etc.). To do that, we need to manage the cap and avoid those terrible situations like the past few years, but we don't need to get $20 million in cap room only to find all we can do is sign second- or third-tier players with it. (Can't you just see McHale and Taylor giving a 5-year, $50 million deal to the likes of JR Smith?)