The Official Ed Davis Thread 2014-2015

Honestly the big situation is more important to me because there's a certain SF free agent that we're going to make a run at in a couple of years anyway. I love Mathews, but we can fill the need for an effective wing easier than we can fill the need for a reliable scoring threat inside.

I still take Monroe and bring Lin with me.

 

No I'm good with what we'd end up having. It's a rebuild after all. The way that we're going we're only going to have enough room to add one impact player. I'm partial to Monroe, but there's a few others out there.

Besides the one addition, we need to focus on bringing back one or two of the pieces we've got this season. Other than that though, I'm alright. Nick Young gave us a discount and signed long term because he loves being a Laker and he exemplifies that. I'm not trading him unless he asks for it. Just give me one impact guy and we'll go back to business. I don't expect us to compete next season.

 

Interesting thought. That's entirely possible. I'm sure Mitch would like to keep his value deflated a bit so we have a chance at keeping him.

At the same time though, I don't think the Lakers would request that of Byron. Mitch is shadow tanking by giving Byron a crappy team, but I doubt he's actively telling Byron to be worse than what we can be.

 

Booz to the bench for Ed Davis is something I've been advocating for a number of games already. The Booz/Hill defensive pairing is bad. Awful actually. And most of us have seen that for some time. I defended Booz at least in terms of his offense originally, but he's much better served to come off the bench right now. Inserting Davis into the starting lineup gives Jeremy Lin his most natural offensive pairing for pick and roll. Kobe also is showing chemistry with Davis - getting him the ball at the appropriate time in the post. The Hill/Davis pairing has been pretty darned great while they are out there. Just go with the best players.

Of course, this doesn't solve the problem of what to do with Wes. He's just bad. But we have no other viable SF to start. After some acclimation time for Young we may want to insert him into the starting lineup. I was opposed to that before, but Wes is such a liability out there . . . it might have to happen. At least play Young the majority of the minutes. Wes is out there way too many minutes for his lack of production.

 

Great attitude. Love to hear that.

 

He wouldn't take it. There's a chance he outplays that offer by a huge margin at the end of this season. If he signs that now and breaks out over the next season or two, then he and his agent didn't get him for as much as they deserve.

They'll try to sit it out, finish the year strong, and get a really big contract this summer. That makes the most sense for Davis.

 

I doubt we'd sign Monroe if we drafted a Center... With Randle, a Top 5 pick, AND Monroe we'd suddenly be too crowded.

Any how, the reason why he would rather take the chance and try to get the extension over the summer is roughly 10 million dollars. Your offer might make sense today if he took it, BUT if he waits he could get double that amount with a 4/20 million contract or maybe even more than that. Even if he stinks the rest of the season, that same 10.5 million dollars you were offering will roughly be there.

 

Yep. Monroe is a solid 6'11". Not a great rim protector, but he can play solid man defense. He's also very versatile offensively and a capable passer. At worst he draws even in his match-ups, but usually he'll perform better than his counterparts. His biggest problems are pick and roll defense and help side defense, but his strengths are post scoring, passing, defensive rebounding, and he's a surprisingly good thief.

I don't think he and Randle are a perfect fit, but they're not necessarily a BAD fit either. Being that young with that much talent, I'd take that every single day.

 

That is pretty insane.