re: Jrue, Tatum, and Randle

The thing is you have him as a RFA for another year.. Why pay him more when you dont really have to, and it could end up being a great deal, but theres a far bigger chance it's a bad deal..

Now if you would change it to a 3/7.5 or 2/6 then I'm sure alot more people would be on board with that, because his value will probably never be much more if any above 2.5-3 a year

If you recall, when AD would hurt his vagina every 5 games or so and sit, Ajinca would come in and be serviceable. His Per36 stats were good, and almost identical to Diallo's. he was nothing special, and a fouling machine, but he had no problem scoring when given the opportunity, just like Okafor. Doesn't change the fact that neither of them are good players on a good team. What you are thinking about Diallo, is exactly what Dell thought about Ajinca before giving him that deal. No $4M isn't some crazy number, but it's 200% more than he's worth and what he brings to the court. Again, why would you pay someone $4M to do something someone that makes $1.5M can do? You assume that i think Ajinca was somehow a decent deal at the time, which it wasn't. I'm simply pointing out that your thinking of Diallo, is exactly what Dell thought of Ajinca, and you are allowing your recency bias of both ajinca and Diallo to not allow you to see the striking similarities.

What could Diallo do to outperform a 3/$12 deal? He has no offensive game. He gets' hustle points, that's it. He is an unintelligent defender, and extremely undersized to play down low. He's effecient b/c he isnt' asked to do anything but hustle. His raw/unproven offense, is what it is, and always will be. He has developed a mid range jumper and that's the extent of his offensive game outside of hustle points, and it always will be. The only thing i can see him improving on is learning when and how to make himself available in passing lanes, and i think he's too dumb to ever get that and doesn't possess the natural instincts for that.
What are you expecting him to improve upon offensively?

I'm not saying to cut bait with him. I'm not saying to not keep him. I like Diallo, and i'd love to keep him, but why would you offer some long term deal when no one else in the league would?
I've said it many times over the last 2 years that he should play more. His hustle running the floor creates space as crazy as that sounds. As a team that pushes the pace, he gets that started by making the defense adjust to him running the floor and helps create confusion and mismatches elsewhere.

You think i'm being moronic, and i feel the same exact way about your rationale on this.


and i don't want to hear anything about Aminu. He was a 27% 3 point shooter who was a good defender and hustler for us for 3 years. Nothing special about that. He goes to Portland and someone learns how to shoot and becomes a 36% 3 point shooter for 3 years. Who saw that coming from his moonball shot?

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They’re not even close to similar players

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I agree. Doesn't change the fact that they both were backup bigs that have good PER36 numbers and have had games where they played really well, mostly in games that didn't matter on teams that weren't going to the playoffs.

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Again, comparing a 4/20 with a 58 million cap to a 3/12 with a 109 cap is just disingenuous.

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58 million cap?
It was $70M, and they new it was jumping to near $100M the next year which is why so many stupid arse long term deals were given out that year.




Tell me specifically what he does on offense and defense that warrants above the minimum? I explained what i thought his game was specifically. You keep saying he can improve and outperform his contract. Explain to me in basketball terms how he's going to do that in your eyes. You've yet to do that, and if you want to convince me, or anyone else out there he deserves a ridiculous deal like that, be specific in what you see him becoming. I can be convinced to change my mind, but you need to do a much better job at it.

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Crewz, this has to be the least subtle alter ever

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I received a million downvotes when I said it, but this alter 100% proves every single thing about what I said about his desperation and that he'd be back in no time.


Yea, I'm taking my victory lap.

I completely agree. Hopefully the new GM will have a very cool seat to sit on and will have the freedom to be patient with the build. They need to add capable players to the mix without overpaying in either money or years until the core is settled.

Double-tech on Shameless and Teddy for excessive jawing.

It'll be a little different because they'll likely have Memphis pick in 2020 and whatever picks in this years draft

Like I said in another thread they could probably easily trade 9-10 to a team that falls in love wth a guy and gain future assets

I'm not on board with signing vucevic or a middleton as that's unwise. I'm fine with signing Randle to 3/40-45 signing a shooter and bench big and calling it a day. Moving hill(possibly Moore too) gives them a ton of space even with the above move

You are like the third or fourth person to call my post a crewz. Can someone fill me in on the joke? What is wrong with my post?

The people saying to give Diallo anything but the minimum just never learn from our mistakes.

Honestly with a new GM, he will be lucky to get the minimum from us since there will be no sentimental value there. Great kid and hope the best for him but that’s the truth.

He is a RFA.
If nobody counters that, then he will be a Pel for 1.931M next season.