Numbers so far this season: 8.8 ppg - 8.0 rpg - 37.9% FG - 45.5% FT - 39 TS% - 13.4 PER and getting paid 14 million dollars this season. Safe to say we dodged a bullet there, eh? I'd take Hickson over Hibbert given the choice between the two.
A healthy, legit 7'er, who likes defense and plays a pretty good offense, and is 25? For the next 4 years? Yeah, I'll take that if given another chance.
replace hickson's crappy D with 2.4 blocks/game, 11.8 oppenent PER, 96 DRtg and the bullet seems a bit more palatable.
Hibbert has been great defensive (as your numbers point out) but offensively he is horrible to watch, just horrible this year. I still wish we had gotten him but that wish is growing smaller as smaller with every missed FG.
I'd take Hibbert even now. It could be fool's gold, but our D this season is bad. We need a defensive anchor.
It's not my money. Plus, you get Hibbert, then Neil and Paul turn their attention to being good this year and they put together a better bench. Hibbert at anchor the D and a quality back up pg and bench scorer, and this team would be killing it.
The fear with Hibbert is he wasn't very good to start with. He rounded himself into shape and honed his skills fairly well, but very few people that transform themselves physically avoid the dreaded relapse. Maybe he's just a really late bloomer, but I suspect there's an inherent laziness that he has to constantly work to overcome. Seeing a regression after a big payday does nothing to allay that concern.
Asik was a much better value IMO, I wanted him from the start, 24 mil for 3 yrs and now he playin some fairly deceny offense
He won't carry on like that forever. But it does make you wonder if he's really worth the max. I hope Meyers develops soon! He has such potential but is so raw right now.
