<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">LAS VEGAS -- It probably seemed like Warriors guard Jason Richardson got a lot of money when he signed a six-year, $70 million deal in November. Some might've said it was too much. Instead, it looks as if the Warriors saved a lot of money by locking up Richardson last offseason. With the money that's being handed out this summer, his deal seems closer to a bargain than a splurge. Former Warriors guard Larry Hughes reportedly agreed to a five-year deal with the Cleveland Cavaliers believed to be worth between $65 million and $70 million. Phoenix Suns restricted free agent Joe Johnson has reportedly been offered a five-year, $70 million contract by the Atlanta Hawks, which the Suns are reportedly ready to match. The Milwaukee Bucks gave shooting guard Michael Redd a max deal, expected to be worth more than $90 million over six years under the new collective bargaining agreement. Ray Allen re-signed with the Seattle SuperSonics for five years and $85 million. Considering his potential and steady progress over his first four years, Richardson probably could have successfully commanded $5 million to $10 million more. One could make a case he is a better option at shooting guard than all of the aforementioned. He is at least on par with them and has some nice advantages over each one. He's younger than Allen, a bona fide All-Star, and has a better all-around game than Redd. Richardson is a better scorer than Johnson and a better shooter than Hughes. One Eastern Conference general manager agreed that the Warriors came out good in the Richardson deal, though he wouldn't go so far as calling it a bargain. "It's not a bad deal," the executive said, adding that he liked Redd more than Richardson. "It's not a great deal. It's about right." Even more, the expected signings of some of the league's younger power forwards will make Warriors power forward Troy Murphy's six-year, $58 million deal look much better. Chicago's Tyson Chandler and Eddie Curry, Philadelphia's Samuel Dalembert, Memphis' Stromile Swift, Portland's Shareef Abdur-Rahim and Seattle's Vladimir Radmanovic are all expected to rake in some dough. Chris Mullin, the Warriors executive vice president of basketball operations, preferred not to comment. How merciful. This was the perfect time for an 'I told you so.'"</div> Source
lol, if the allogations of Murphy and Jason's agent blackmailing Mully into an extension are true then Mullin actually won that battle. I think both were resigned for good prices, not steals but if they were FAs they would be offered a little more.
article makes a lot of sense. But Johnson is way more polished on the offensive end. He can create his own shots better. I would take him over anyone out there and he has the handles to play the point. I love Jrich but dont get it twisted JJ got mad skills.
I said it at the time of the signing. If the intention was to keep both guys, then it was a good signing. If 1 of the guys blew up, then they'd be grately underpaid. A guy like Murphy might turn out to be a good signing. He's a Stats guy. His BYC status runs out, and if he's near double double land again this season, he'll acually be fairly easy to move. Fisher's the bad contract. I still can't understand how Mully made that deal.
Veteran leadership on a young team, blah blah blah. I don't know why either. Everyone keeps saying its only the MLE but the length of the contract bothers me. With the idea of the glass being half full, I hope the young players step up and by the trade deadline we can figure a way to trade either Fish or Foyle or both. Fish is my least favorite Warrior right now, due to his style of play and IMO Mully greatest mistake to date.
I'm probably the most unlikely advocate of Dfish's game of chucking and getting burnt on defense, but we'll probably love him if he does something amazing in the playoffs. If he does some crap to get us past the first round of the playoffs, we will all be kissing his ass in unison. The length and amount of his contract is plain bad, but we'll see if he earns it in the playoffs. We have some big man help this time to create offense in the paint and we have Pietrus, who is pretty fast with or without the ball.
