Nothing better than drafting a project that appears to have the upside of a finished product. Terrific.
Too lazy to find it but I do remember saying a few years ago (pre crash) to trade Drummond for picks when we had the chance. I feel both sad and vindicated-ish.
Don't move up, don't move down. Stay where you are and draft a player you hate to add to your dysfunctional roster. - Mediocrity Handbook
It's like the basketball gods looked at the Darko pick and said, "Thou shalt never have a high draft pick again. And if thou shalt pick 8, there shall be but 6 good players in the draft".
Miss the playoffs seven of the last eight years and never pick higher than seventh. Never good but never bad enough to properly rebuild. Wonderful.
So if I am reading correctly, we can no longer match a max offer to KCP. I could be wrong but it sounds like the Galloway signing makes it impossible.
I make the casual fan look like Zach Lowe, but why in the world would we want to offer KCP a max deal?
It's impossible unless we move about $2-3M in salaries elsewhere. Vince Ellis seems to think we're going to do that, but I haven't seen anything that suggests anything is close or any specifics. If Brooklyn doesn't make that offer, it doesn't seem there is anyone else who would. At that point, it will be interesting to see how KCP treats it and how much he's willing to settle.
If Otto Porter signs a sheet with Sacramento it seems like Brooklyn may max out KCP. I like him a lot but I really hope we don't have to go down this road.
Not to go all Bill Simmons, but could he be the second best player on a conference championship team?
Yeah, ideally Brooklyn makes another Mozgov-type deal to eat cap space for assets and we can get KCP for something closer to 5/$100ish, maybe even a little lower. If Brooklyn wants to sign him, I'm not sure what its waiting for. I think you can start that clock before July 7, and now would seem to be a good time to catch the Pistons with that decision if you want him.
No. But he's a good starter at a position where there aren't a ton of them and in the NBA it's harder than any league to replace good players. I'm fine either way on KCP, but he's a good player who is 24 years old. Losing him for nothing would be a setback or a team that can't afford them.
For al the talk about kcp being a good defensive player, how many all NBA defensive teams has he made? And he's a career 33% 3 point shooter, and his best season was only 35%. I mean the franchise is already screwed for the next 4-5 years with Drummond and Reggie. You mind as well max out KCP and become the most irrelevant franchise in the NBA. Fuck this team
The NBA has the most ludicrous contract rules. Guys getting max money just to screw up other teams it seems. The owners let this shit happen by doing things like signing KCP to max money. He should be a 15 million a year guy, and that should be considered overpaying.
Morris makes about $3M less per year, I think. That's roughly what they needed to shave to sign Hayward.
So we traded Morris for Avery Bradley which is an upgrade, got a 2nd round pick and it means we probably won't give kcp a max deal. Sounds like great news
Tobias will finish games at the 4, I would think. He might start at the 3, but I think he finishes at the four with us playing either 3 guards or Stanley at the 3 for defense. I hope we're done. Stan needs to learn to stop spending on veterans because he doesn't want to count on young players. He needs to give Stanley, Ellenson and Kennard a chance to at least earn some PT instead of blocking them. We have to figure out what Stanley is, especially. Only way to do that is throw him out there and see what he can do in more minutes. If we won't do that, we should just trade him because he'll have no value with another year of 10 minutes off the bench.
Reports are that our highest offer to KCP was 5/$80M. His max would be somewhere in the neighborhood of 5/$130 (or 4/$105 in an offer sheet). The Galloway signing now seems like clear indication we weren't matching a max offer. Someone also tweeted (I think it was Rod Beard) that Drummond has supposedly lost a decent amount of weight, and that it was a suggestion from the org to do so.
Losing him for nothing was better than paying him the max. Especially in lieu of today's trade, obviously.
If this trade hadn't come up, it would have been a pretty significant setback to lose KCP without being able to replace him. Having an alternative or a plan B changes that.
Also, based on the quotes from today's presser, it seems they view Galloway mainly as a 2, which means Kennard probably doesn't get much run this year.