What about JJ hickson?

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  1. Mediocre Man

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    So good he hasn't been signed yet. Zaza freaking Pachulia has agreed for crying out loud
     
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  2. magnifier661

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    Huge chunk? What you think he's gonna get? I'm thinking around 4.5 mil
     
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    magnifier661 B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

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    Well technically he wasn't free to accept an offer. We still held his rights rember?
     
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    Supposedly CLE sees AB as a full time SF eventually.
     
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    Bennett is supposedly a SF.
    I thought HIckson was a Center now?
    That's one hell of athletic lineup.
     
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    Hickson isn't a center. Hickson was playing center because the Blazers had nobody else.
     
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    Um, he can sign wherever he wants to. He's under the same "limitations" as Josh Smith, who just agreed in DET. Which is to say, none.
     
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    Oh my mistake
     
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    I wonder what it is that NBA GMs and scouts see in Hickson that's caused them to pretty much ignore him the last two off-seasons. He's a very solid starting calibur PF, I wouldn't mind keeping him and trading LA, but he must have some flaws that aren't so apparant to me.
     
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    It's called really sucking at defense. I mean worse than monroe
     
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    But does he suck that bad as a PF? He's doesn't have the defensive skillset of a center, but he can guard the post etc. There are a lot of PFs that couldn't really defend the middle like a center. LA can't defend the middle either.
     
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    You have absolutely no clue what you're talking about. Yes, we had a cap-hold until we renounced Hickson, but that had absolutely no impact on any other team signing him. He was not a RFA; it's not as though we could have "matched" another team's offer and kept him.

    Hickson getting no significant offers (that we know of) yet had nothing to with anything but other teams' opinions of his value.
     
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    Well statistically, he's worse against pfs
     
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    Go for Kenyon Martin!
     
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    I gotta admit I thought the same thing
     
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    The problem is the perception of value. In Hickson's mind he's worth more than the MLE. In the mind of GMs, he's worth less than the MLE. If he wants to start he has an even bigger problem. He's a bench/energy guy.
     
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    No, statistically he's better against PF's. Also, it should be noted that PF's across the league are better statistically than C's, so positional defense from the PF spot is more difficult than from the C spot. Where Hickson lacks, mainly, is in the team defense category, which is much more important from the C spot than from the PF.

    IMO, Hickson would be absolutely adequate defensively as a PF.
     
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    Look at the defensively. That per only accounts for offense.
     
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    Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA 52s
    The Denver Nuggets have reached agreement on a three-year, $15 million deal with free agent J.J. Hickson, league sources tell Y! Sports
     
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    Good for JJ. He played hard and earned that contract.
     
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