Who cares? They have value. Just because they don't have a jump shot doesn't change that. Try to keep up. Hartenstein had value. His value is going to go up this year because he's getting an opportunity. You can do what you want with that value like flipping him to another team, instead of dumping him for nothing.
A big body with some game for the end of a rotation on a rookie contract. (Could have used that last game). IMO, it’s save to say cutting him was a mistake. The size of it’s wrongness is more than debatable. I will say this , IMO, if he was on the team we would be 1 and 0 at this moment. We were being bullied in the low post and coaching (now) with Hartinstien’s talent would have made the difference in this one game. (Cousins currently has this role but was out). Here is were my thoughts are: Hartinstien & GG OR Clemons and Thomas
I wish we had given Hartenstein a chance last season, but that ship has sailed. He still would never have gotten into the rotation this season. Wood is our starting center now and Cousins is the primary backup, both of them are much more talented than him and can space the floor. It would be nice to have him as injury insurance for Cousins, but we don't even have a backup PG right now. I'm much more concerned about that than third string center.
The other dude talking about value is right. I can understand if Hartenstein signed for some ridiculous amount but he signed for 1.6M a year. That is still great value for a player of his caliber regardless whether he can hit a J or not. Even as a lob target or just 5 hard fouls or 5 mins of rest for Wood and Cousins, Harty would've outplayed that salary. It was dumb to cut him and when the Rox did, they should have signed him in FA immediately. I'm not gonna lose sleep on a 3rd string center making 1.6M, but at the same time a mistake is a mistake. It all adds up.
You need 3 at ever position. For pg you can always have sgs be the pg, but for center it should mostly be a dedicated dude.
How many championship teams have three dedicated centers nowadays? Some barely have two. More teams have PF playing center than have SGs playing point. The Lakers playing Harrell at primary backup center while having two dedicated point guards.
Get ready for the Hartenstien revenge game tonight. It’s totally possible that he goes 20 and 10 while shutting down Wood. I’ll say it again, CUTTING HARTENSTIEN WAS A MISTAKE! I’m starting to see Wood more and more as a PF and not a C. I think Hartenstien would look great with C-Wood. If the Rockets would’ve cut Clemons instead of Hartenstien to sign Nwaba then they would have had room to keep Gerald too. Damn it!
At 1.6M there is literally no harm at getting a backup center. You got big teams like Portland, Lakers or Denver a backup is def needed in case Cousins goes down for a couple of games.
We hardcapped ourselves to get Wood so $1.6M hurts. We can't even afford to sign Gerald Green to the minimum because of it. If Cousins were our starting center we'd probably need to make backup center a priority, but he's not. With injury prone Wall being our starter a backup PG is a far more pressing priority.
I blame Westbrook and whoever wanted to trade for him. We got rid of all bigs who could not shoot outside because we needed to hide Westbrook's weakness. I thought it wasn't very wise to shape your team for the benefit of your second option, and your second option was not helping your first option.
Definitely should have kept him, he hustles on defense, he is making good passes and even has a decent pick and roll game going. I knew at the time that was a bad decision.
LIterally ignored his bad games. LOL. These are great for the minutes he got. I dont want to hear it. He was never as good as you made him out to be and he was no difference maker.
