re: Offseason Trade Possibility

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He is a nice player. He can crash the offensive glass and rebound, but has no real game on offense and isn't a rim protector. 

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his offensive game is get a offensive rebound and put it back up, ill take that.

From what we saw from the Warriors game we NEED someone who aggressively crashing the boards

And he isnt the greatest rim protector, however he is good enough. Light years better than Anderson

But I do agree, hardest thing will be to convince him to come off the bench again. Unless we go unorthodox and put AD at center and Thompson at 4. Maybe signing back Asik to be our center who comes of the bench

Thompson is a non-starter for me. His offensive game isn't much of an improvement over Asik, if any. Asking Davis to play 5 so Thompson can play the 4 is silly, when Asik can provide the same things while allowing Davis to play the 4.

You're not actually going small if the opponent can keep their center in the game and match him up v Thompson. He's a better finisher than Asik (who isn't :badabing:) but he's nowhere near the defensive rebounder or defender Asik is. I'd rather pay Asik $13M/year than Thompson.

If the Warriors series taught us anything, it's that the Pels need more players who can defend/rebound and shoot. Thompson isn't a guy like that at all.

I gave him an upvote out of pity

and agree with corndeaux, ryno for Patterson and Ross
Thompson is not an upgrade

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Pretty sure Anderson is getting traded with Asik for Parsons.

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As long as Parsons is coming back healthy it sounds good to me. Monty is going to match up with opponents and put Asik on the bench anyways.

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Pretty sure Anderson is getting traded with Asik for Parsons

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Only way this works for both is if chandler comes to the pelicans in a sign and trade on a cheaper deal. Dallas getting too much in this trade

The new cap is changing salaries drastically. $13M today is nothing like $13M a year ago.

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The new cap is changing salaries drastically. $13M today is nothing like $13M a year ago.

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Don't give me this crap again.
Just b/c the cap raises 40% doesn't mean everyone's salary raises 40%. It just means the superstars with max contracts will make 40% more.

Think about this.
AD signs for 25% of the salary cap. That is a given.
If the cap the next 2 years is 70/88, like some have projected, then AD makes 18/22 respectively.

The remaining salary we have left after that is 52/66.

Having this retard tied up for 20-25% of the remaining cap, when we are about to hit the biggest free agency market ever after next year, is just retarded.


He wants to make $13 million next year, then fine, you get a 1 year contract.
You want a long term deal, 3 years for $31 is ok with me, if the salary hits are $8, $10, $13 respectively, and i still don't like it that much b/c i don't' think he does anything that makes us a championship caliber team and the money we spend on him could be better spent on a player capable of making an actual difference on this team on both ends of the court, and that player needs to play either the 2 or 3 spot, not the 5.
5's don't win championships, unless they are Shaq/Olajuwon/Duncan.

Teddy is right in his conclusion but wrong in the logic.

The cap change doesn't effect the proportion of the cap max players can get, 25-35%. So while AD will get more money, it doesn't really have any effect (per se) on any other players ability to get more money.

But to say every player will get more money is also faulty. You would have to assume that all players cap proportions will remain the same. That's probably not true.

Real value MAX players, LeBron/AD/Westbrook/etc... cap proportions won't change only because they are locked down by the "max" proportion a team can offer.

I'd be willing to bet the cap change benefits most those all-star caliber players and hinders the group of just"starter" caliber players. Basically guys who are the 2nd and 3rd best players on a team could see a significant bump in pay while the 4-5th guys pay probably won't increase as much (though still at least probably some pay bump).

Basically, that 3rd best guy on the team could see a big pay bump. Think of the Miami situation a few years back. If Miami had more money, they wouldn't have gave it Chris Anderson, that money would have went to LeBron and Wade.

Ya Asik is getting a pay increase for sure. Bigs get overpaid. I just hate overpaying players just because the team can overpay them.

Mason at Bourbon Street Shots (stupidest name of any blog, ever) had a good article on the cap situation. You bring back Asik for more than 10 Million dollars and bring back Cole and Ajinca, the team probably will only be able to bring in minimum or near minimum guys if it wants to avoid paying the tax.

The more I've thought about it, the more i've come around to letting Ajinca walk and paying Asik. Tough choice, but I think there are some gambles you can take at the back end of the C market this year, that if they pay off, could give you a starting caliber center to go along with Asik. Also, if were keeping Monty around I'm not sure I want to pay a guy who is consistently in Monty's dog house.

Lavoy Allen, Blatche (If he wants to come back), McGee, Sanders, Henry Sims, Jerebko ... all guys who just have more potential than Ajinca and might be better long term investments. [Yes I am aware some of these guy's are PF's but there all guys who are capable of playing center. i.e. 6'9" 250 Ilbs and up.