04-14-2021, 02:44 PM
(04-14-2021, 02:30 PM)HoosierDaddyKid Wrote: Plus they signed Gabriel Deck, who's suppose to be another intriguing player.
Deck is 26 and was never something special in Europe. I doubt he will suddenly break out. That signing is more about spending 3,9 mil OKC was below the salary plateau.
From Hollinger:
Enter Deck, who not coincidentally signed for $3.9 million. Is he an NBA player? Probably not. He had failed to make an impression as a younger player, going scoreless in the 2013 Hoop Summit and going undrafted in 2017. Now 26 years old and playing in Spain as a 6-foot-6 power forward with limited athleticism, nobody I talked to is that excited about him as an NBA prospect. His best-case scenario would be to get by enough on smarts and craftiness to carve out a back-end rotation spot. Deck’s main utility was that he was available via an in-season buyout, a rarity with European contracts. (The Thunder also could have targeted an American call-up player, by the way, but those ranks had already been picked clean, and they’d already used some of the money to convert two-way Moses Brown to a roster player.)
https://theathletic.com/2514337/2021/04/...-that-was/