WTF? Hawes to Clips for 4 yrs/23 mil?

Like someone else said above, we had to go up against the clips who have a better roster and better weather... SO we really have to hope that no other teams really want him like a LA or NY... that's what makes it difficult... not that Neil and co. suck like some try to spew all the time.

 

We offered the same years and money. There were some people who were insistent that Neil was terrible and that he can't get them to come and how did Hawes go so cheap yadda-yadda-yadda. Crow has been eaten.

 

Ahhhhh I see said the blind man to his deaf son

 

You guys are taking this too personal. Doc did a better job selling him how close they are. I doubt the cities were the main difference.

 

What would be awesome is kaman outperforming Hawes next season. Maybe sweeping the clips in the second round too!

 

It's like Hedo Turkoglu all over again.

 

That's a strange thing to say.

 

Slightly more depressing is that they met with Channing Frye and he was "out of their price range".

 

MLE is 5.305 plus 4.5% raises so they signed him for exactly the MLE.

 

We offered Hawes 4 years? I thought that all FAs signed by Olshey would expire when Aldridge does.

 

Melo, LeBron, Love, Bosh and Gasol have got the NBA in free agent limbo. Once these guys make decisions it'll be like a KMart blue light special with 4 teams desperately trying to dump salary as quickly as possible.

 

Lopez was good last year, so Center is not a pressing need. So why did Olshey panic when he lost Hawes? Why not wait a couple weeks for the bargains? Just sign the best player available, not necessarily a center.

 

Maybe because LeBron doesn't want to play in the West? The good thing is we did the politically correct thing by having a Brit, a Frenchman, a Spaniard and a German on the team.

 

But the word was that Hawes was "very interested" in Portland. What happened?

 

But by the way, Hawes isn't God. He's fine. And Kaman is pretty decent.

 

That billionaire from Seattle buying the Clippers goes back to his college playing days and I'm sure has a lot of incentives for Hawes to chomp on

 

Big men who can shoot are all the rage now, just as low-post threats were the in thing a decade ago.

Poor 'Sheed just came along at the wrong time. Well, kinda. He still won a championship and ended up getting the plaudits. But when he kept shooting the ball from range instead of parking in the post, it turns out he was ahead of his time!

 

Hear hear! Don't let sinobas read this though. He will give you a nerd sheet of facts that say how ineffective it is.