re: Demarre Carroll to the Raptors.

We don't really have a logjam at the 4. From what I'm reading, Horford will continue to be the starting Center. Splitter is a 20-24 minute a game guy who will simply replace Pero and Brand (which is a significant upgrade), and also play deeper minutes at Center when we play teams with a true Big that Horford doesn't quite match up with, like Lopez or Gasol.

Millsap, Scott, and Muscala will continue to be the rotation at the 4 apparently. So our depth will look like this:

Teague/Schroeder
Korver/Hardaway/Mack
Sefolosha/Bazemore/Daye
Millsap/Scott/Moose
Horford/Splitter/Tavares

Tavares will get little to no minutes and Moose will probably spend some of his time at the 5 too. And I still think Mack might get released to free up cap room. Daye may get less play time than Tevares. But unless we do something crazy and trade away Teague (which would be stupid), I think we're probably done and this is it.

I suspect we will see a lot more small-ball packages with Teague+Schroeder on the court at the same time, and Korver+Hardaway at the same time.

We are super deep right now with fast athletic guys who can run the hell out of the floor and force teams to wear themselves down chasing us. Our defense may take a hit from last year, but our ability to run the floor has gone up. And, Splitter now improves our matchups vs teams with bigger 5's and he's a much better scorer and rebounder than Pero or Brand. So we've really just shifted some capabilities around and increased our ability to run the floor and wear teams out.

We'll see how it works. I have faith in Coach Bud.