[SI] Top free-agent bargains of 2010

Is the writer of this article mentally r****ded?

 

Lowry has not started or not a starter that's why it's low for him. The rate that we matched was for a starter salary.

 

lol b4 reading your post i said man this guy is a moron

shaq the second best player???

 

If you are not a Rockets fan or watched Lowry play then I can see where they are coming from. I thought he would get 4M. I feel we paid too much but we had to do it.

 

I have serious questions about these "value" numbers.

According to this guy's numbers, LeBron is as valuable as D. Wade, R. Jefferson, and Lowry combined.

 

At face value the salary is really high for a backup point guard. However, if you factor in how the Rockets fell into a free fall last season when he was out with injury, you might change your mind about his value.

Or, if you factor in that are starting point guard's situation is up in the air after this season.

 

Easy explanation.

Rich Steinlauf=JCDenton

Stats Guru

That is all.

 

The Cavs signed Lowry to that. He also gives the Rockets a fallback in PG.

 

Yeah the Lowry signing was worse than the Darko signing.

 

Most of the Cleveland team didn't show up that series so it's not such a crazy statement.

 

It's not a hard cap. His whole system is flawed.

 

He plays the minutes of a starting guard, this guy, like many national writers, must not watch a lot of rockets games. Plus Morey wants a guy who can step in and start if or when Brooks makes is departure.

 

mmkay.

 

I think we paid ah bit to much but we will see once the season starts. If he starts hitting jump shots out of nowhere then we got a steal..

 

No Joe Johnson in the worst category?

 

I'm really tired of hearing this argument. So many other things were going on at the same time that there is no way you can point to any one of them and determine that it was the main reason. Trade deadline bringing in new players who didn't know the system... Landry gone... Ariza injured as well... rotations in chaos, with Adelman trying to figure out who to use when...

 

His "value" methodology needs some explanation however unless you're taking it literally (like LBJ against Dwade, Jefferson and Lowry on a 1-on-3) I'd say its pretty accurate. If I had Dwade, Jefferson and Lowry and the Cavs had offered me LBJ for all three I'd have done the trade in a heartbeat.
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Its funny how everyone is flipping out calling this guy a hack because he had something negative to say about the rockets... did anyone actually read the article??

"Of the top 20 signings, Steinlauf turned out to be correct last season on all but one of them. His only mistake was to rate former Knicks center David Lee as a $6 million player in what turned out to be an All-Star season."

19 out of 20 correct last year...hmmmm