By the time he pans out Yao will be back. It may be nice to have a change of pace backup though, and hopefully limit Yao's minutes (although I don't buy that helps his inclination to injury). But I agree, he will take time and will be soft. I HATE centers like that. I want my big men to play like big men. "Adelman centers" are ineffective.
Yeah, I am kinda the same way. Even with the injuries to yao and tracy, I, wouldve preferred to give a guy like petro 2m and sign a guy like Magloire for 1.5m and offer Von 2m and roll into camp. Brooks,von,scola,and ariza would be your primary scorers and landry,petro,magloire,and lowry would pick up the scraps.Dump cook and barry while we're at it.
Good sign, a great contract, i would still want to see another C signed, just in case Yao injury becomes permanent and to have more options at C as Andersen will be very foul prone at the beginning. (just like Scola was)
I think the Center rotation is Anderson and Scola who will move over from the power position for 15 to 20 minutes a game. Landry will be averaging 28 minutes a game. Center:Anderson - 25 minutes, Scola - 15 minutes, Landry - 8 minutes PF: Scola - 15, Landry - 20 minutes, Hayes - 13
If you can pull the thread when I said trade scola for cook, I will drop 50 in the tip jar today. If you can't, u do the same. I never said that, I might have said scolandry was redundant and that one guy should be a tim thomas type. Don't make something up and pretend I said it.
Would you would have supported trading Scola or Landry for Tim Thomas? In retrospect, do you still think that would have made sense? Don't worry, we're all wrong once in a while.
Or, better yet, paying Andersen the highest annual salary THIS year, and stepping down the salary every year (kind of like Kirk Hinrich's contract is structured). This might mean the Rockets go just a little bit further above the luxury tax line, but a Brian Cook trade (plus maybe another minor move) will take care of that. Plus, it would maximize cap room in 2010.
What I proposed at the beginning was rafer and hayes for thomas. I got blasted and people were talking up how great rafer and chuck were. Then I said sign elson and mbenga for the 1.2m per for both because Yao will go down at some point and we need some size. I'm human and I make mistakes, but I never made that proposal that one guy claimed I did.
David Andersen for 3 years, $7.5 million >>> Marcin Gortat for 5 years, $34 million Moreyball wins again.
You said that Scola couldn't hit contested shots, which I thought absurd, and you don't have to dig to find the post.
Well to be fair its 3 year, $9.5m vs 5 years, 34m. Anderson is mils ahead of Gortat in terms of offense.
I've posted about the strategy to structure contracts to stay "flat" or even "decline" and how beneficial it would be for a team to do that. See here. I just think it's such a better way to manage your cap. Instead of salaries that go up and up and up, if you trend them downward, it gives you much more flexibility in terms of cap space/luxury tax and trade values. Obviously this wouldn't work for max level talent, but for everyone else, you can just figure out a total contract value that they'll accept and just structure it accordingly. It's being done here and there around the league, David West has a decreasing contract, Monte Ellis and Andris Biedrins have flat salaries. But I'm waiting for a GM to do it on a large scale and really develop an advantage in terms of salary cap management. Decreasing/Flat salaries, non-guaranteed contracts (like what Cuban and the Spurs have been doing), buying draft picks, advanced player valuations etc. Once a GM starts doing all these things, I really believe that they can get a competitive edge on their competitors. Just like the New England Patriots, who do a lot of the same kind of stuff (i.e. shrewd salary cap management, advanced draft pick valuations, player valuations etc.) and have been the class of the NFL for the past decade.
He cant nor does he. Please find a clip when you have seen scola take and make a contested jumper. Thats why he struggles when teams dont double yao. The stay closer to him and he needs alot of space to get his shot off.
