Alot of people are complaining about having to pay G. Rice so much money. Well according to 2 diff. articles their salaries are virtually equal.(Sorry for not listing them). Shandon A. signed a 6 year 42 mil. dollar contract so he will problably make 19 mil over the next 3 years. B/C of the signing bonus the Knicks gave Rice we only owe hime 20.8 mil over the next three years. If you ask me we got the better end of the deal becuase we needed a scorer ( C'mon Rice averaged 12 ppg. coming off the bench, playing w/ Allen Houston & Sprewell, and with some **** going on in his foot.) Plus defense is all HUSTLE and HEART.
That may well be true, but the important thing is how much of Rice's salary counts towards the cap. In this case, whatever signing bonus that was given to Rice by the Knicks will be prorated over the gauranteed years of the contract - bottom line is that Rocketswill take the full cap hit for Rice's salary AND signing bonus, even if they aren't actually paying it. For this reason, Glen Rice does no equal Shandon Anderson. Lets hope he doesn't have the same stuff going on for the next THREE years. Thats the age old argument that to be good at defense "you just have to try harder". Its a load of garbage - defense is a talent just like offense
Rice might count more against the cap, but Shandon would have counted LONGER against the cap, and that was the difference there. <b>Lets hope he doesn't have the same stuff going on for the next THREE years. </b> Actually that foot injury isn't a lingering injury at all. <b>Thats the age old argument that to be good at defense "you just have to try harder". Its a load of garbage - defense is a talent just like offense</b> That's right, and you can learn to play defense the same way you can learn to play offense. Just like a bad offensive player can learn to be a good offensive player, a bad defender can learn to be a good defender.
RocketsMillenium True, although I don;t think that was his point. In my opinion, a longer contract with less yearly impact on the cap is preferable to a shorter one with a large impact. I hope you are right. I'm not sure whether that is strictly true. Lil'Manslick, in commenting that "Defense was all HEART and HUSTLE" was downplaying Shandon's strength AND Rice's weakness. If you are makng ageneral statement about the fact that people CAN improve their defense, fine, but it does not apply in this case. What makes you think coming to the Rockets will be the revelation for Rice that will finally make him decide to show the "HEART and HUSTLE, and "training" to be a "good" defender. He is not going to improve over what he showed in LA and NY, thats for sure.
That's the thing, Rice never had a reputation as a horrible defender. He isn't a great defender, but he is far from being a bad defender. He isn't flashy, and he isn't going to make the NBA All-Defensive team, but he is NOT bad defender. Besides you can't judge Rice at all on his stay in New York, his foot injury killed his lateral mobility and explosiveness. Now that his foot is fine, he will be much better. <b>True, although I don;t think that was his point. In my opinion, a longer contract with less yearly impact on the cap is preferable to a shorter one with a large impact. </b> I disagree. Shandon's contract and Cato's contract are IDENTICAL! And how many posts have we seen of people wanting to dump Cato's contract? I guarantee people would have done flips if they could have dumped Cato's contract after 3 years.
