I think ideally that's where you go with someone playing PF that can stretch the floor offensively, but he's so far from competent as a rim defender right now it's not even in the realm of possibility.
Absolutely. I think he'd make a near perfect fit for a death lineup of rangy, athletic players. Ideally, I want Gordon Hayward, but I don't see that as likely. Russell/???/Ingram/Randle/Ibaka if you add someone in there that can hit a three respectably and defend well, you're looking at a killer lineup in a couple years.
let me ask you Real and this goes for anyone as well, wouldn't you be alright if Nick Young returned? I'm curious what price range & Years you would be okay with. My opinion, I would be okay with 2-3 Years at $7-9 million per. I could probably settle and be okay with $10 million as well. Everything I have read, we aren't going to see a huge spike with contract last this last FA period where Crabbe and Nick Johnson got way more than they deserve so I'm not really scared that Nick is going to demand or have some team offer $12-15 million per.
I could handle Nick at that, but I don't see why contracts won't be similar this time to last year. Nick might be worth more than that to someone.
Young rep for being a goof is always going to hold his salary down....technically if Jr Smith wasnt one of lebrons lacky and bff he definetly wouldnt have gotten that contract, i compare smith on court performance to young and both have similar baggage
Honestly I'm not willing to go to 10-12 million which is where he has a legitimate shot at getting to. If he goes for 7-9 million, then sure but should we take that chance? I don't know. If we can get a pretty good return for Nick, I'm absolutely ready to pull that trigger.
Any stats for Randle before and after having a baby, I think he had a huge increase since the little one.
we're getting off topic, but i'm not sure that last year wasn't THE big bonanza for mid-tier FAs. teams spent their wad, and not as much cash will be available this summer. young's a MLE type guy, career-wise, and i expect him to be there again. i expect he'd stay in la for that, too--perhaps even if offers elsewhere slightly exceed that number (like odom before him).
The MLE is supposed to raise to around 6 million I think this summer. I believe Nick is at most a 7 million dollar player even in this friendlier to players CBA. I don't think that's how much he makes though. If Nick keeps this up I think someone over pays.
i thought the MLE was going to be even higher. they're (finally) tying it to the cap, right? i'm expecting (like others) something between 7 and 9 per year--maybe someone goes to 10 if they feel like he's their missing piece. at those prices, i think the lakers keep him. but there's a LONG way to go until that point. lots can happen.
I went to Larry Coon's CBA faq page, but it might have been out of date. If we can keep Nick for MLE prices (whatever that happens to be), then I'm interested. I do fear though that if he continues to shoot the ball at a league high percentage, someone somewhere will overpay and I'd rather get value on him now if I can. If we could trade him to a contender for a protected first (like Cleveland just did), then I want that.
I think I know what you mean Jaguar. It's like he has to find a way to put the effort in, too often, close to the basket that would be required for him to lift 600 lbs over his head, with some comical contortions with his legs and body thrown in. Gotta love that 6 foot high dribble he seems to like to start with as well. :Headbang:
