Kind of a stretch. Indiana wants to dump Roy Hibbert's salary. 1 year taker he's not a bad option considering its his contract year
With the way this offseason is going, we're not winning anything. Might as well add a player who's a stop gap at C until next year's Free agency. Guys like Monroe/Harris/etc are looking for multi year deals, theres no reason to sign those complimentary guys if we struck out on Aldridge
We should try to go into each off-season with as little contracts as possible. That way we can sign every FA at once.
Monroe & Harris are both solid additions though & will get big $$. DJ I'm more on the fence about. He fits this team really well, but I can't imagine watching him clank FTs the rest of his career.
The good ones are 26-30. Aldridge, Gasol, Love, DeAndre. The second tier ones like Harris and Monroe are younger and everyone else is restricted. And yes, the contract was bad, and in that sense we are getting outplayed. I thought you were merely talking about the moves this summer. I will not argue the merits of paying Kobe that deal again except to say you need to get what you pay for. Kobe has been worth about 10 million to us over the last two seasons combined in on the court production. His biggest contribution last season was getting hurt so we could get Clarkson playing time. Overpaying someone for past results is how companies go under.
I mean we'd have to get one of them for me to really be alright with this off-season at this point. If you go into the season and you don't even get Harris or Monroe... The FO messed up big time. Honestly, I think if we exit the summer without at least Monroe or Harris, then someone's head needs to roll in that FO. That's a failure. You can tell me this and that about who does and doesn't want to come here, but if you can't leave the summer with either a good veteran or a good prospect, you failed.
I know very little about Biyombo other than he's a good defender. Is he really that much better than Ed Davis? All things considered, offense, defense, etc.
The thing is, the contract makes sense in plenty of ways. We weren't going to get any other names that summer anyway. The deal was dependent on two things: 1. Showing players we take care of ours and 2. Freeing money at the right time. The biggest problem with Kobe's contract isn't the contract, it's that we failed to get a max level player two years in a row now. If we'd collected a max player last year or this year, then we free up a ton of cash and we look like a goldmine the year Kobe expires. Now? Well so far we look like chumps.
I'd be just as pissed as you, but who do you even blame for something like this? Is someone in there sabotaging every pitch we make? What could the FO have done better? You don't think being a 21 win team in a conference where 50 doesn't even guarantee the playoffs has anything to do with it?
