mo evans signed with the hawks for 7.5 mio $ over 3 years. http://www.ajc.com/hawks/content/sports/hawks/stories/2008/07/25/hawks_childress_evans.html i still wish we could have re-signed landry earlier.
I don't think Morey has any serious interest in Evans. He is, at the most, a possible Plan B swing man if Brent Barry didn't sign. I agree with Morey, too. Barry is a better player overall.
i like barry, too. but the rockets would be a lot better with barry and mo evans. evans is a good defender, a solid shooter and a good slasher. he's also not undersized and at least average athletically. imagine barry and evans as backups to tracy and shane. both are capable of playing 20 mpg off the bench. our bench would actually be a strength and our backcourt would be no weakness anymore. it would have been possible financially, too, if landry had re-signed already. 2.5 mio $ per year for evans is pretty cheap. landry could still have made about 3.5 mio $ to fit under the mle. if landry gets the full mle and we won't add another quality wing player with size i will be dissapointed. unfortunately, mike harris, donte greene or luther head won't get the job done. and if you count on barry playing 82 games at 20+ mpg you're fooling yourself.
Adelman sticks with a short rotation. Another wing won't get playing time unless there's an injury. Evans is also undersized for SF.
He can shoot and pass better but Evans can score as well as him and is a lot better than Barry as a defender. He is also quite athletic,fit and younger. Anyone can get injured,but an older player takes more time to recover from his injuries. I'm sure DM had no interest in Evans either.
I don't think we have a real need for Evans at this point. There won't be a lot of minutes behind McGrady/Battier/Barry at the 2 and 3 position, and Head/Greene (and maybe Harris at SF) can take whatever few minutes are left. Head's not a bad regular-season third string guard. And I'd rather see Greene get the scrub minutes to develop. By mid-season, Morey and Adelman will have a better picture of what we have and if necessary make a move then.
Of course I would have liked Mo Evans. But breaking into the MLE to sign him would screw our leverage with the Landry thing, and by every sign in dealing with his agent is that is the last thing we want to do. All we had to work with before this Landry thing plays out is the LLE. Barry (or Mo Evans for that matter) is a steal for that matter. Had Mo Evans or another swingman been willing to wait until late this offseason to sign maybe we could have offered half the MLE--but again, can't do it until the Landry thing is settled--or a team could offer a 1 year 5 mil deal and we are cooked (or Landry's agent could threaten he has such an offer real or not to get leverage for a bigger longer term deal). Would Mo Evans had been worth losing Landry after we already have Brent Barry coming in? Don't think so. We can still shop late in free agency or via trade for another swingman in the neighbordhood of Mo Evans caliber for not too much.
Agree for sure. The Maurice Evans I see is a decent all around NBA player. A good three point shooter, a good defender, can finish strong around the rim, a good guy off the bench, and if the need arises can start games. Isnt that basically what this team needs? He's doing what Pietrus does at a 3rd of the cost.
Though I mostly agree with your assessment (probably overate his defense, after all Orlando was much more interested in recruiting Pietrus than resigning him), is that enough to probably cost us Landry now that we have Barry?
