Grizzlies and Zach Randolph agree to 4-year, $71 million

46-36 is not a bad record in the west... remember they tanked the last 2 games just to face the spurs.... not to mention they lost gay.

u make it sound like its easy to beat the spurs (2nd best record in the league) at their home court without ur max player (rudy gay).

u talk about battier's clutch three... thats fine but if u watched the game, u should realize matt bonner made 2 back to back threes before that to put the spurs in front...

also having a "flexible" cap space doesnt do jack if u cant sign any max player...

 

Congrats to Zach Randolph...Very well deserved.

Lol @ the haters still hatin'. If Z-Bo was playing for Houston, he would easily be the best player on the Rockets.

 

The measure of a star is not how many allstar games he goes to. But you want to know something, I'd take zbo over every pf in the game right now. The only guy on his level is l.aldridge. Blake will get there, and kevin love will to. But zach is a beast, no two ways about that. Transitional star? I could tell you that gay was a star and that he's gotten the best of KD and Lebron and even Kobe more than a few times. But I don't care to do is. Because the fact is that Rudy doesn't press to be a star, he simply plays big when it counts. Transitional? No. But I am not worried about westbrook or durant's of the world. Those guys have nobody that can stop our lowpost scoring (#1) in the league.

90 percent of the game is about rebounding and defense. The rest is shotmaking at the end. The grizzlies have Gay and Randolph and both can create their own shot at the end of the game. You do realize that there is not a player in the league that can guard Gay right, his pull up jumper is unguardable at the end of games. Transitional? Who cares.

 

That isn't what matters. The question is will Z-Bo earn it the next 4 seasons. I doubt it.

 

The Memphis Grizzlies are locked and loaded folks.

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Throwing all that money to Randolph is worth it.

It's hard to find a consistent 21/12 guy in the league.

 

Agree. Shrewd move by the Grizz.

 

You could be right. But right now it is about keeping the train truckin'

I would have rather given him a 3 year deal. But right now it is about the window of opportunity we have with him now.

BTW, they said the same thing about ray allen & KG for that matter. They've been digging themselves out of the grave for years now.

As you should know A_3p0 contracts are a right now thing and players don't take kindly to being used and throw out. It is the nature or big contracts and star players that they eventually become a liability to their teams.

 

It seems too much for Randolph, but then again I thought Scola's contract was too big as well. Maybe the going rate for productive, offensive-minded power forwards is a lot higher than I figured.

But Randolph really seems to have turned a corner since joining the Grizzlies. I could see him proving to be worth the money he'll be getting.

And I really like this Memphis team, with their balance of big men and perimeter players. No, I don't see them contending for a championship without a major change/trade, but for a relatively young franchise and perennial bottom feeder, they've taken a huge step in the right direction IMO.

 

+1. Good stuff.

 

Randolph is a year younger than Luis Scola, but Randolph has more basketball mileage Scola.

We've forgotten that Randolph had the dreaded MICROFRACTURE surgery years ago. If people want to call Amare Stoudemire an injury risk, you can include Randolph in that. It'd appear that both Amare and Randolph have gotten past that, but its something to consider.

 

Why? Because he's a contract year player? Because he's constantly injury prone? Because players from age 29-33 drastically decline in productivity? Oh wait, none of that is true. You're just looking for excuses to hate.

 

The grizzlies have the best low post game in basketball. That's been proven, because for the last 2 years running we were number 1 in the paint. And there is not a team out there that can stop it.

When you think about it: the grizzlies are built exactly like the lakers. Rudy is our kobe, Bynum and Gasol is there weaker version of our randolph and gasol. But unlike the lakers the grizzlies dont run with a 39 year old pg, we have a young up and coming conley, we have perimeter defenders (ta and shane) we have a 3 point scorer in Mayo.

Now whether we can keep all of it together remains to be seen, but our team is stacked.

 

This is just senseless. You're reverse hating. He's simply talking about the on court impact to dollar paid ratio. That is how we measure "value" in the association, and unless Z-Bo is going to do their taxes, bar-tend at halftime, and perform with the cheerleaders, I also can't see him bringing 17.5 mil. of value per anum for another four seasons.

 

Well I guess we'll just have to settle for his 25 and 14, 3 assist and 2 blocks and a win in SA. It'd be hard.

 

What? Does that mean Rashard Lewis earned his contract?

A3PO is absolutely right: we will wait and see if he ends up living up to the contract... that's what you hope players do: live up to their contracts. I think Z-Bo won't, for reasons that are both in (mental) and out (basketball mileage/injury) of his control.

 

My goodness guy! "Looking for excuses to hate"? Stop peeing in your pants because I don't agree with you? If you can't understanding why people would think paying $18M/yr the next 4 seasons for a player that will be 30 years-old this summer is a bad idea, then it's hopeless to even discuss it. Any disagreement becomes a cause for attack. You're a worse tripwire than "what" used to be.

 

Ahh, this makes sense.

 

I can understand the idea of keeping it going. This is what often leads to these kinds of contracts. The thought of losing a key player for nothing is scary.

If Z-Bo ages like KG and Ray Allen, it may not be so bad after all. It depends on if he's dedicated and has enough integrity to care of his body the next 4 summers. Whenever the next training camp opens, we'll learn a lot by how good a shape he's in when reporting. If he's slow and has to work himself into shape, that won't be a good sign.

 

Even if Rashard Lewis were just as good as he was in Seattle, he never would have earned that contract. He got paid far beyond his pedigree. Ditto with Joe Johnson this past summer.