I heard Feigan on the radio and he sounded like me might get DA, because the other teams (LA & Detroit) were not offering or not offering a better deal than Houston
Maybe the Rox are offering a longer deal than the fakers, who are still trying to reserve future cap room to sign Yao
As Scar said, six players for three positions is not crazy (seven players if Bowen ever makes it off the bench...maybe when one of the other guys is injured). Next, they are not mediocre players. I would say they are good players. Further, most of them, due to age, can't maintain a high level for a long time. So depth works really well. Memphis ran such a system for their entire roster and it worked well for about a year and a half. I think we would only need to do it for this year. apostolic - I already said it would be a different story if we could get a younger, superior player (I see I should have said a 1 or 2, though). So that is an obvious point. I am not so sure something like that will happen, though. Who can you think of that has a bad contract that a team doesn't want anymore who would be an obvious upgrade at the 1 or 2 and is fairly young?
Below are the Spurs players, games played, games started, and minutes. This formula obviously worked pretty well for them, and allowed their best small, Manu, to be pretty fresh. It would be nice to do the same to Tmac (bring his minutes down to 35MPG by having quality subs where you don't lose as much). Name GP GS MIN T. Parker 80 80 34.2 M. Ginobili 74 74 29.6 B. Bowen 82 82 32.0 B. Barry 81 8 21.5 D. Brown 67 0 18.5 B. Udrih 80 2 14.4
I agree. I would like to see tmac play less minutes (around 35 like you said). DA would surely help that. sura and james can split 24 minutes. wesley and barry will look more like 30/18 in wesleys favor. IMO. even after we sign DA or spree, I would like to move wesley to the bench or trade him for a backup 3.
I think that he was saying that the Lakers were not offering much more than Houston and with the partial payback to Portland, the deals were a lot closer.
Exactly. Even at the full MLE, the difference is only in the range of $1.7 million. And if the Lakers don't want to shell out the full MLE, then the gap gets dramatically closer.
id take spree over da knowing that he was under jvg and jvg controlled him and made him the player he was on that knicks squad.
it says right now on foxsports.net that the lakers have turned their attention to aaron mckey. this is good news for us people.
The Lakers don't want to shell out the full MLE AND they only want to sign him for 2 years like the Kwame deal. Using the LLE we can only sign DA for 2 years (2 year 3.5 max). We can put a player option on year 2 however and create flexibility, for instance DA could then re-sign with a 20% raise and 10.5 raises thereafter as a non-qual free agent, could be re-signed with our MLE (or part of it) with 10.5 raises thereafter, or sign with a new team. Gives him lots of options. So yeah, considering all factors--DA's deal with Portland goes 2-3 more where he only gets a little over half whiever is the new salary, the Lakers are only offering part of the MLE (I'd guess 2.5-3.5 mil max/year) and for only 2 years max, cost of living and taxes, we can guarantee 2 years but also have an option, the deals end up not a whole lot different money wise.
Plus the fact that California's income tax is about 10% and he'll have to pay that not only on the salary that he gets from the Lakers but also on the far larger amount that he'll continue to get from Portland.
If both DA and spreewell are both considering our LLE, i wonder if we could get both, one with LLE and the other with the veterans minimum. Its not like the money is that different between the two. Then we could package some combination of wesley/james/expiring contracts for a solid starting point guard. Im reluctant to include sura in any deal but of course if we had to include him as well to get a champoinship team caliber pg, then id say go for it. Da and spreewell could split time at sg and back up small forward, along with JB. Now, all this is not going to happen, but dream casting is fun.
You're right, none of these guys should be playing 3. That's why we signed Bowen. Perhaps we use Wesley on smaller guards, and someone like DA for longer guards. DA has always been a good defender, but I have no idea if injuries have hurt his game because I haven't watched him in a while. I will say that Wesley was probably our best perimeter defender last year; however, Stack destorying him in the playoffs exposed our weekness defending tall 2guards. Perhaps Sura will be healthier this year and be able to provide better defense. Also, perhaps Head can contribute. There doesn't appear to be enough minutes to go around. I don't see DA Wesley, Barry, and Head getting enough minutes at the 2, but I'd love it if we could keep all of them because depth is very underrated. Did someone say 2 for 1? Sounds perfect to me.
