<a href="http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?t=267418">Rockets re-sign Corey Brewer to 3-year, $24M deal</a> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">In this market, ~$8M per for Corey Brewer is actually pretty good value. (Also shows what an absolute STEAL Trevor Ariza was last summer.)</p>— David Weiner (@BimaThug) <a href="https://twitter.com/BimaThug/status/617093075899277312">July 3, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
I think we're stuck with Terrence Jones for his entire career. For better or for worse. He doesn't fit the usual tradeable asset mold.
Unfortunately 8 million is a normal number for a rotation player nowadays. Even 10. What couldn't be foreseen is the extent of how Brew would fall off. What makes Brew contract so godawful, is also the years. If it was a 2 year deal his value wouldn't be so bad as it is now. If you want to see what are the worst contracts in February, Brew is in top 5 for sure. I say February because that's the trade deadline.
Kostas Koufas is a 7 footer at 265 lbs and plays center in the traditional sense. TJ did good last night and erupted in the 4th when we needed the scoring.
My whole point is.... what is there really to be arguing about with Jones that you people keep on trying to politic about? The guy is who he is. Does he not have value though to THIS TEAM???... you are a complete idiot if you think on THIS TEAM he doesn't have value as a team that is hard capped with little to no way of replacing lost bigs. If Harrell makes improvement in the D-League, and D-Mo gets back to playing how he did for that half season last year then sure, he's expendable, but WTF are you people complaining about right now? The guy is holding down the fort right now in the meantime to the best of his abilities, and the only alternative would be Marcus Thornton at the 4..... just shut up and be thankful for some depth. If D-Mo and Harrell are as great as they are sold to be it shouldn't be an issue for them eventually moving ahead of Jones in the rotation. Right now, its completely obvious that they have needed him this first quarter of the season, and might need him still.... so shut up, and move on from these stupid bone headed arguments.
I don't care what the normal number is or what the term "good value" means and who defines it. I thought $8 million per season was too high when Morey re-signed Brewer and it's definitely too high now. Brewer isn't contributing to winning. He's went in the tank with his money. Hopefully we can dupe somebody into taking him off our hands without us having to give them a draft pick or other asset and them giving us back a worse contract. Kostas is a backup center, and not a good one at that. The Kings are the 5th worst team in the league right now. They're terrible. Kostas isn't a rim protector. WCS was out for Sacramento, pressing Kostas into more minutes. And DeMarcus was exerting barely above zero defensive effort. Kostas couldn't defend me out there. Terrence is a 4th to 5th rotation big on a championship team AT BEST. He simply isn't skilled enough defensively nor offensively to be a positive difference maker in the primary 8 of a contender's rotation.
Look at D-Mo's 1st 15 games last season, the season he broke out. Compare it to TJ's 1st 15 games this season. Again TJ's season last year was all but erased with fluke injuries. He's getting into a groove the last 3 games and is shooting 39% from the 3pt line this season so far, which is better than D-Mo last season (again just a comparison), and is better than anyone currently not named Beverley who is shooting 43% 3pt shooting.
