I've been thinking about this...I'm sure y'all are too and it has been discussed.

Who is going to be our leader next year? It has to be Rip, right?

Tay??? Please. Rip will at least get in someones face.

Peeps want Sheed gone, CBill is gone, Stuckey isn't good enough to lead us, Dice comes off the bench a lot, Tay is Tay.

Rip doesn't look like a prototypical leader of a team, but I think we're going to have to put all our eggs in his basket.

This shit is getting scary folks.

I think/hope it will be somebody not on the team right now.

And will the team, or whats left of it, accept that player?

AI didn't come in here to open arms.

We need, desperately need, to have a new coach next year.

Hopefully the playoff ticket sales disaster will boost him in that direction.

A new coach would help new players coming in too.

thats gonna be a problem, also i doubt we can get a leader anywhere near Chaunceys type of level, thats why i vote to get rid of Tay and RIP too, bring in new guys and let somebody grow into the leaderrole, Stuckey still could be this guy if the veterans are gone...

I've seen more evidence of Tayshaun being able to be a leader than Stuckey.

IMO Tay has got to go. We can sit here and praise the guy for his D and his multi-skilled offense but the fact remains we need more offense out of that spot if we're gonna be a real contender...

Unless we can sign or trade for some quality bigs that can put the ball in the basket. The problem we have is that we need scoring from our bigs, but we also want blocks and boards and quality D.

How many bigs are available this off-season that bring all that?

The question isn't who will lead us - the question should be who are we gonna have on our roster.

Is Tay worth bringing back?

Is Rip worth bringing back?

What could we get in trades for them?

We've been sitting here wondered what we could get if we dealt Maxiell, Amir and Kwame. Maybe we should try looking at different course of action?

If we need more offense and aggressiveness from Tay at the SF position, we need to give him room to fail. For the past few years, Tay's only real backup come playoff time has been Rip. We're reluctant to give Herrmann serious minutes at SF, and we don't really have anyone else who can do that.

If we want a SF who can crank it for 82 games at 40 mpg without a real backup, we want to upgrade from Tay. But then we had better be prepared to pay or draft for that. Our most recent move in that direction has been gambling on a narcoleptic...