07-05-2022, 11:47 AM
(07-05-2022, 02:15 AM)SleepingHero Wrote: Some FA centers that are role players that got deals in the past 2 free agencies:
2021
Theis- 4/35.8
Homes- 4/47
Collins- 3/22
Noel- 3/28
Len- 2/7.6
2022
Nurkic- 4/70
Robinson- 4/60
Dedmon- 2/9
Drummond- 2/6.6
Bamba- 2/21
Hartenstein- 2/16
McGee- 3/20.1
Lopez+DAJ- Vet min 1 yr
In terms of AAV, McGee currently ranks 9th out of 14 centers of roughly the same skill level. Even at the bigger 20.1 total, McGee's contract isn't bad at all.
The question is should a mid 30s backup center who can't stay on the court in the playoffs be our primary target with the tax MLE? If we are going the center route, I would rather have gone after a young project who might turn into an asset (Jalen Smith). Personally I think the higher priority would have been to replace Brunson. Somebody like Ricky Rubio (who got the tax MLE) would have made a ton of sense. I don't know why we didn't sign Dragic, but if offering more than the vet min would have done it, I think that would have been higher priority than McGee. There were also wing options that would have made more sense that got the tax MLE or less (OPJ, Ingles, Divincenzo).
I'm trying to stay patient and wait for the offseason to play out, and honestly I'm more pissed about Dragic than McGee, but right now we only have two guys on this roster that can pass and I feel like that is more important than adding another center after we got Wood.