On a team with a slightly more talented bench, he would be end of bench. Having "no-show Layman", Butters and the like surrounding him doesn't make Pat better overall, it just makes him a better alternative. Pat is not a bad player but he is not a difference maker by any means and the goal is to replace non-impact players with difference makers. You take chances with signee's and draftee's and hope that they improve the team overall. Based on SL, I have hopes that will be the case, Pat C's replacement will provide more of an impact (and perhaps in a bad way occasionally but overall, I think the odds it will be better). Gramps...
Olshey commented that player's often make the "3rd year jump", and in some ways Pat did just that - he went from incompetent to a poor man's Danny Young. Not good enough. He played hard though, and was a good team player. Nothing but hopes that he finds success in the NBA or MLB.
It's not just humility. But yes i need to be humble there. I am so far out of the loop right now it's gonna take me like a month to even start to figure out who is on what team. I'll start about pre season and get some pre games going. That always starts to make the game fun again. But Summer trade scenarios and the constant cap space conversations just take way too much time to stick with. So yeah i better just stick to what i know.
Well i guess i have to disagree again and agree to disagree. Layman plays SF and PF and Leonard plays PF and Center. They had absolutely no impact on what Pat was doing. Wade Baldwin will be his replacement and will fit in fine i'm sure but still doesn't really have a great outside shot? Then of course Curry. Simmons might be a better option? and Trent or Stauskas might be able to work into the role? Doesn't seem to be all that much there that is better. Lets hope i am wrong on that.
Thing is, when referencing Layman and Meyers as Pat replacements, they're talking about role, not position. We can get Pat's skillset from a different position, and then the player filling Pat's position can bring something different to help the team even more (like elite perimeter defense from Baldwin, or additional deadeye shooting from Curry).
Layman and Leonard will carry on the role of white dudes at the end of the bench waving towels, who only get in the game once one of the coaches starts waving a white flag...
Good for Pat, glad he got another chance at NBA. It's tough with all the new rookies and G-league players coming in every year. This might be his last chance.
I kinda get the feeling that pat is trying to eek out every last NBA dollar before going to make peanuts in the minor leagues.
"The Milwaukee Bucks came to an agreement to sign free-agent forward Pat Connaughton on Friday, a source confirmed to the Journal Sentinel. The contract will reportedly be a two-year deal for slightly more than the minimum salary with only the first year guaranteed, according to Yahoo Sports." BNM
More details... "The Bucks are over the cap and used their entire bi-annual exception to sign Brook Lopez. However, the team still has a bit of its mid-level exception available. Having used $7MM of the $8.641MM exception to add Ersan Ilyasova, Milwaukee could give Connaughton a starting salary of $1.641MM, which would exceed his minimum salary of $1,567,007." BNM
I kind of think Pat is gonna be a 10-12 year journeyman and will make plenty in the NBA. this year 1.6 Million. Every year on out just goes up from there?
