re: Offseason Trade Possibility

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Okay, Pee Wee. You really got me there.

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You really got me too bud.

It's just asinine to think Asik making $13+ million a year for the next 3 years is smart for this team.

How many centers are as good as Asik defensively?
Jordan
Noah
Cousins
Gasol
Chandler
Hibbert
Horford
Drummond
Steven Adams
Bogut
Brook Lopez
Gortat
Howard
Mozgov

That's 14, and i'm probably leaving some out. Asik isnt' better than any of those guys, and every single one of them is miles ahead of him on offense. Most of those guys should make twice as much money as Asik.

How many are much better offensively, that aren't necessarily better defensively?
Vucevic
Jefferson
Bosh
Pekovic
Valanciunas
Kanter
Jordan Hill

That's 7 that don't play great defense, but provide offensively.

That's 21 centers that are much better centers than him.

And here's a bunch of guys that probably give at minimum as much as Asik does if not more overall.
Robin Lopez
Nerlens Noel
Gobert
Dieng
Pachulia
Nurkik
Plumlee
Speights
Koufas
Olynyk
etc.

In what world does Omer Asik deserve $13 million dollars a year for multiple years?

He's a role player, and one of the most one dimensional players in the league. What about that screams $13 million?
He is no threat at all on pick and rolls b/c he can't catch a bounce pass and catch jump high enough for alley oops. He can't roll for a jump shot, even though he does sometimes and his defender sits under the rim and he normally has no one to throw to so he hands it off to Evans to go one on one b/c there's 6 seconds left on the shot clock. He poses no threat at all to guards that he is forced to switch on b/c he's so slow.

When he plays motivated, he can be a force defensively, against other big centers. We didn't see that too much this year though.
He had his year to show us what he brings, and i think he sucks, and i don't feel like hampering our salary cap for years to come just so we can have a center next year.

Don't just sign someone b/c there's no one else to sign, that's what signing Asik would be, just like what we did matching the max for EG. Just don't do it, look at the big picture, look to the future and be smart in the present.