All is not lost. We could still look at possible buyouts. McGraw must be talking to S Smith too much! http://twitter.com/#!/McGrawDHBulls/status/40867584421134336 Prince is not a guard, but I am speculating that Korver, brewer would be used strickly as guards.
No, but saying fat chance gives us dibs on Curry. Which is about the quality of player we can expect from a guy whose current team will pay to go play somewhere else.
http://twitter.com/#!/KCJHoop/status/40929013820030976 http://twitter.com/#!/KCJHoop/status/40929893470441472
What's really great is we have $3M in cap space and draft picks to use in sifting through other peoples' garbage.
The one guy I'm kind of warming to is TJ Ford. A real liability defensively. Undersized and didn’t want to work at it with the Pacers. Offensively, he’s a guy who makes his living by taking it to the rack. The Pacers getting him to run the Jim O’Brien offense was absurd. He wanted a guy who could shoot 3s and defend, which is exactly what Ford didn’t do well. I’m not a fan, as you can see, but despite this, I’m coming around to thinking he might not be bad idea. For 10 minutes a game, if you put Omer and Taj up front, Kyle and CJ on the wings, and let TJ drive and kick, it could be a very effective lineup. The bigs won’t score, but they’ll clean up a lot of CJ and TJ’s mistakes, and TJ driving can be pretty much unstoppable he's so fast. He’s sort of like OJ Mayo. Bad rep for defense and teammate issues, but also in a situation that's a bad fit. One reason (and the best one, aside the hype) I hear people saying Mayo would be helpful is that he could create his own shot while Rose is off the court. Well, out of all those buyout clowns, Ford is the only one who can do that. So I can see that he would actually bring something sort of important to the table for us. None of the other guys, I think, could do that, although I might also offer Jared Jeffries a deal because he's a 6'10" guy who has successfully defended 4 positions and because the Knicks would be really pissed off if we took him.
If we could "wink, wink" and let RIP or Prince know we would give them all of the cap space of $3M for the signing for the rest of the year, it's possible they would work out a buyout deal. I don't know what is most important to Detroit, saving money or not looking like fools.
I'm putting words in mouths here, but I think the term 'home run' might obscure more than clarify, and should not be used to extrapolate over every move GarPax might make. If I had to guess, GarPax's agenda for the team are as follows: 1). Acquire one more alpha guy without messing up our core and fucking up the rest of the team too much. 2). Acquire an okay fill-in-the-cracks guy but at no marginal cost to the team. Scrapping the buyout heap would satisfy the second requirement, but obviously not the first.
Too late for the latter. If they want to save money, they can probably find a deal this summer that will shave more cash than a buyout could
The TJ Ford idea is a good one. Most guys on waivers are either injured, over the hill, or were never on the hill to begin with. TJ Ford is none of those. Check. On the second team he would create mismatches and not give defenses a chance to rest when Rose came out of the game. CJ Watson isn't great as a primary ball handler, so it'd help his game too. A second unit of Asik, Gibson, any 2 of Deng, Korver, Brewer or Watson and Ford would be effective. What it lacked in outside shooting it would make up for in defense and transition baskets. Sign me up.
If nothing else happens, I am fine with this. Play Watson more as a sg or play Derrick as a SG. Either way play more Watson/Rose.
