Official 2016 Free Agency Thread

If that was in response to my post, suggesting we start Black was a very small part of my point. I mentioned that as an absolute worst-case scenario if we failed to get Mozgov on a better deal, find a suitable center in a trade, or sign another free agent center with higher upside on a better value deal.

My main point being ... I'm pretty sure we could've got Mozgov on a better deal, found a suitable center in a trade, or signed another free agent center with higher upside on a better value deal.

We'll see if that ends up being true or not.

I agree that Mozgov, when healthy, is much better as a starting center than Tarik due to his size and defensive presence. Tarik seems to fit better offensively though. Neither he nor Mozgov are good passers, but Tarik's greater quickness and athleticism seems to give him an edge in an offense that will be more predicated on pick-and-roll rather than using Mozgov's size in a slowed down low-post offense. Obviously, we're terrible at defense so overall the edge goes to Mozgov. But if he's not fully healthy and he starts slowing us down forcing Luke to play small and start Tarik in the middle of the season, I'm going to be really sad seeing Mozgov get $16 million to put up 4 and 4 off the bench.

 

Mozgov is definitely a better player than Kaman. C'mon now Kaman never would've had the impact Mozgov did for the Cavaliers last season. Nobody is leaving in denial. I think a lot of people are having knee jerk reactions. I certainly was one of them.

The guy is a solid player when healthy. He wasn't healthy last season. I don't know what's so hard to understand about that. Health can derail any players season. He's been a solid player everywhere he's been. He's got a better body of work than someone like Biyumbo and even the Cavs hadn't screwed him he may have gotten even more considering Bazemore is asking for 20 million.

 

Don't worry Weezy, I was at the point you're at right now last night.

I was in denial and honestly didn't believe the initial reports. Thought maybe Mozgov's agent was using us for leverage.

When Woj confirmed it, I got super angry. WTF was Mitch thinking?!

Then I started bargaining, hoping (jokingly) that maybe this was the guy Durant wanted to team up with or that it meant we had Batum locked up.

When that clearly wasn't happening, I fell into a micro-depression and went to sleep.

Now that I woke up, I'm feeling a little better about it and I've begun to accept it. We needed a starting center and this doesn't affect our other free agency plans.

Wait a second...

 

For those of you content with Mozgov the player but what he's getting payed, what kind of contract would you have considered fair?

 

4 year 25million

 

2 years 24 million. I bet he would have taken it too.

 

Well only consolation is seeing big name fa not sign with dall still even with a better owner, coach and more competitive team lol

 

When your only enjoyment is the bewilderment of other teams, you know your team has become irrelevant. Who cares about Dallas and the C Bags or whomever. The irrelevancy of the Lakers has become Clipper like. If the young guys do not become perennial all-stars, its game over. Lakers are going to be the Knicks of the last 45 years.

 

When your only enjoyment is the bewilderment of other teams, you know your team has become irrelevant. Who cares about Dallas and the C Bags or whomever. The irrelevancy of the Lakers has become Clipper like. If the young guys do not become perennial all-stars, its game over. Lakers are going to be the Knicks of the last 45 years.

 

The frustration is paying a 3rd string center, at 12:01, 16.5 a year for the next 3 years. I truly believe Mosgov would have taken 12 million per for the next 2 years had they offered it.

 

If Mozgov isn't fully healthy and/or guys like Plumlee, Mahinmi, etc end up going for a similar or cheaper price, than yes, this is a bad deal.

 

IF Conley goes back to Mem with Parsons, Dall will we scrambling to over pay someone too soon, hopefully they'll overshadow us with this Mozgov signing hahaha

 

We continue to ignore one factor. How do we know any of those guys would have joined the Lakers? It's easy to say we should have spent our money elsewhere, but we don't know who would even truly consider us!