According to 82games.com, Battier worths $10.54M for his production whereas Swift only worths $1.94M for his production. http://www.82games.com/0506/0506MEM.HTM http://www.82games.com/0506/0506HOU.HTM This explains why we traded Swift for Battier. This is a pure Morey move!
Yeah, the problem is Juwan is worth $850,000, in other words a new pair of Adidas, and that's about it. I don't mind getting rid of Stromile. What I mind is not having anybody else on this team to push Howard to the bench.
Hayes is back, and expect Battier to play significant amounts of time at the 4 (allowing TMac to play more 3). Novak will also probably get minutes at the 4.
I am feeling a little better, though not by much. Let's say there is a 50/50 chance, or even 30/70 chance, that Rudy Gay turns into the next Pippen. How much would that worth?
But Gay could also turn into the next Eddie Griffin, Stromile Swift or Darius Miles, three guys loaded with talent with no drive. Apparently, Gay's drive has been questioned. I wish we'd have taken their #24 pick cause our depth sucks now. But Battier will allow TMac to rest on defense and he might be worth his weight in gold for that. Lets hope so.
UConn guys' 82games.com Fair Salary: Emeka Okafor $2.23M Donyell Marshall $3.51M Charlie Villanueva $5.88M Ben Gordon $6.79M Caron Butler $7.88M Rip Hamilton $11.72M Ray Allen $17.61M The median Fair Salary is $6.79M, average is $7.95M Let's assume Gay will do as well as other UConn guys. $7.95M+$1.94M=$9.89M, so this is a fair trade according to 82games.com Fair Salary.
And there is a good reason for it. T-Mac missed 1/3 of the season. He shot a low FG% and didn't win many games.
I haven't said a word to anyone anywhere for the past 8 hours... But... Please tell me this is a joke... Please tell me we didn't send Rudy Gay, #1 on many draft boards, to Memphis for Shane Battier.... Then threw in Swift to match salaries... Come on... Battier for Gay is in their favor. Imagine you told Memphis they could have the #1 player on their draft board in exchange for Shane Battier? They would be all over it. Had we gootten rid of our only bad contract, this would be a good deal too. Had we included Juwan Howard and, fuggit, even our 2nd round pick, this would be a very good deal. Because Swift and #8 are two of our top 3 trade assets, and we just sent them both to Memphis for.... Shane Battier? Really?
I don't understand this logic. Say what you will about Gay but attributing the success of past college products to Gay doesn't seem like a sound practice in evaluating talent.
Francis was $4.05M when he was with Orlando. Apparently, team chemistry also plays a big factor on the production of a player.
Well, I couldn't think of other ways to estimate Gay's value. Therefore I chose the data from other UConn guys in the NBA. That's the best I can do. Maybe you can give me your insight on how to estimate Gay's value? Interestingly, using this method to estimate Gay's value does make this looks like a fair trade. If you take into the risk factor of Gay, this sounds like a great deal for Morey.
Unlike those guys Gay is fundamentally sound. He's athletic, but he has a great jumper. Also, most guys with no drive don't say this... "I'm going to make every one of the teams pay that passed on me." -Rudy Gay http://www.courant.com/sports/baske...,0,2656203.story?coll=hc-headlines-basketball
Luckily, we already paid, with our #8 pick and Swift. I hope that Gay would find those were enough, at least Jerry West were satisfied.
Wow, 17mil for Ray Allen, you can't fault logic like that, What was I thinking we got the shaft with this trade. According to this, our next move should be to get Tsakalidis because hes a good value.
That's pretty funny, you must be forgetting who our coach is.....if you want to see him play, you better pray for injuries.... Pugs
