04-01-2021, 08:47 PM
(04-01-2021, 08:24 PM)cow Wrote: Hate is probably too strong of a word. Buy low might be too strong of a descriptor for that type of contract. A contract in that range might just be what he is worth, the guy is 28 and a six year veteran. His three point shooting will probably bounce back as these seems like a down year but his 2PT and FT % should probably return to the norm as well. He shows defensive flashes and is decent enough with the ball against average defenders to get shots up. While I don't really want to be the team that pays him, he just needs to be easily moveable and based around all the tea leaves we saw coming into the TDL, he wasn't a very desirable expiring. Granted we are only privy to NBA reporting and NBA twitter but I don't remember any grumblings about him.
I guess the question I keep asking is, "has he made the team any better this year"?
To me, the real question is, what is the likelihood of him making the team better in the future. I think we are seeing his floor right now for various reasons (luck, Covid, new team, etc). He is not what we are looking for as a secondary creator and he is not a lock down defender. He is a guy that can provide some versatility on offense (not great but better than DFS or Maxi) and he is currently the only quality defender we have that can handle 1s (as well as wings on switches). He is a proven legit starter on quality teams, which is something we are in short supply of. He is prolly worth roughly 15 a year, so at 13 a year he is a legit asset (due to the scarcity of quality starters). A big part of this is that I think we are better off operating over the cap, in which case we are better off re-signing him and THJ. I think there are limited/unlikely scenarios where operating under the cap will actually improve the team we currently have.