As long as we don't have over 60 mill tied down on just one position, I'm all for it. Personally, I'd rather have Lowry than Brooks, but that is for another thread.
Look for Brooks to get a 5 year/50 million dollar contract. Don't forget, his agent is Leon Rose. He is notorious around the league in getting top dollar for his clients like LeBron, AI, and Bosh to name a few.
morey will NOT pay brooks $10 mil/year. scola is a different story b/c he plays a different position. very good big man (esp. for scola's production) for his price tag is a great deal (hell, scola should get $13-14 mil/year for his production right now - it's franchise player status). scola may not be great defensively, but he still possesses size (he just struggles v. mobile big men as they are hard to guard anyways). he rebounds like a champ. he posts up like a champ. and he shoots midrange J like a champ. he does a lot of things at his position. brooks is a very very good player, but he's not as versatile as scola on both ends of the court. i say the most morey will offer brooks is $8 mil per year.
Parker and Ginobili also had a man named Tim Duncan when they were winning titles. If Duncan went down they would not have carried San Antonio far.
After Conley's Contract. Im absolutely sure Brooks is going to Demand atleast 10Mil a year. If thats the Case, I'd prefer we let him go before the Trade-Deadline for a upgrade at SF(Melo/Iggy)/PG(Nash).
Yeah yeah yeah, and we can see lots of people saying he won't pay Lowry $6 million a year, and he won't pay Scola $9 million a year, then those same people shift their focus to the next guy due a contract. What Morey has done, is ensure that he will have to match whatever someone else is willing to pay for Brooks.....which will probably be in the $10 million a year range. Maybe if he tried to sign him to an extension, he could have gotten him for a little less money, now...the market will decide. DD
Very, very nice post. (You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to DaDakota again.) Guys, Brooks will come around, he always has. He needs Lowry, but with both of them getting minutes we will be ok at the PG spot. I hope that we look to upgrade with YOUTH at the SF/PF/C spots. I love Shane, Luis and Yao, but I can't help but think that a Wilson Chandler/Josh Smith/"Up and coming C" would make us look a lot better with the style we are trying to play. I just can't believe that we can win with that frontline in combination with the small backcourt, which I think will be a fixture for the next decade. To me, Aaron Brooks/Kyle Lowry and Kevin Martin/Courtney Lee, are on lock. We need to upgrade the frontline with quick players that fit our style. It starts with finding a stud for that SF spot. Again, I think Wilson Chandler is a very realistic target, and would be a nice combination SF with Chase Budinger. One more thing. I HATE that Daryl Morey has brought in Brad Miller and Erick Dampier. I don't mind the players, but they just get in the way of player development, and I don't believe that they are championship level rotation players anyway... I don't expect many to agree with that, but I'd simply rather play Hill and Patterson.
The older I get and the more I understand player skill sets and the salary cap, one thing has become very clear to me. You don't pay 1 way players 10 mil and over a year. In basket ball you have to play both sides of the ball. You know the reason Adam Morrison and Sasha Sharapova dont play nba minutes? They cant play D. Aaron is a good player but in-order to win with him you have to have elite defenders at the 2 and 3 spot and we don't have that. Good 2 way wings are going to cost you between 11-15 mil a year in the current nba market. With the new cba coming we are not going to be able to afford to have 45 mil a year in salary tied up in 3 players. I am for keeping Aaron if he will take less then 10 a year. If he won't we need to trade him and build our 1 and 3 spots around Martin. You can get a good point guard who can play both sides of the ball at a above average level for a good price. We have proof of that in Kyle.
That's a great point too. I wonder how 6-5 Rodney Stuckey would look in the backcourt with Kevin Martin? Throw Tayshaun at the SF, Hmmm
What is Steve Nash's contract ? How much did we pay Tmac again? Is Vince Carter still being paid? What about Rashard Lewis? Ben Wallace played one side. Rudy Gay, how much does he make? I could go on....but what were you saying about 1 way players again? I forget. DD
The bulls signed wallace to a big contract and and the first chance they got they unloaded. What have the others players you have listed won? NOTHING. You have to balance your line up. Prince could score at the 3 and Rasheed could Score at the 4. They needed Ben to play the role he did. Both Jason Richardson and Grant hill can play solid defense. So Nash can play his role. We cant have 2 defensive liabilities in our starting back court we have to have better balance.
I don't think they are liabilities at all, they just need to concentrare more, heck the entire team does. This is entirely a chemistry issue. DD
No way Brooks and Martin (even Scola) are on lock if we continue having defensive problems. Morey won't accept that situation, he said it. I think Lowry deserves his 5'7 per year. Scola is probably a little overpaid, he's great offensively, has very important limitations on the other side. But if you believe in Yao, and you think he's the correct piece to have next to him, it's Ok. Brooks needs to do a GREEEAT season to gain a 10 per year contract, and greeeat season means: - Improve defensively, must be smart and agressive, at least don't let his man beat him on the dribble, and has to put some pressure on the ball. He can do that, if he wants it. - Reduce turnovers and bad decisions. Be serious. Feed Yao. - >45 FG% - Be able to score in the clutch. I think it's unlikely that he can achieve all these goals, but last year surely exceeded the expectations, so we should give him a try.
Martin Is a average defender Brooks is subpar one. It is not because he does not try he is to light and 2 short. Those attributes help him on offense but kill him on defense. Im not saying we have to get rid of him he just have to put very good defenders around him to cover for him on switches.
I don't think size or height has anything to do with it, I think it is 100% desire and concentration. DD
