How good would we have been if we had signed Hibbert?

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  1. Rastapopoulos

    Rastapopoulos Well-Known Member

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    Genuine question. He really was an ideal piece. I keep hoping that Indy gets cold feet about his contract and offers to unload him on us. But then we would have to give stuff up, whereas we would've just signed him before.

    Of course, how good would we have been? First round exit? Second round? We wouldn't've been a contender... would we?
     
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    We would have been a lot better. With the injuries we are still at best a first round and out team this year though.

    But next year you get to 2nd round and you keep building for their. Free agents would want to come eventually (and we wouldn't even have to throw max at them all).

    It would have been very nice to get him...
     
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    We'd either be talking about the game tonight vs the Spurs or the game tonight vs the Thunder.
     
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    Would we have still signed Hickson. Sounds funny but that may have made a big difference. Hickson coming off of our bench would have been nice. I believe we would have made the playoffs and probably looked at picking up some guys like K-Mart later in the season the playoffs and maybe even made a little noise. But I agree that next year would have been even better
     
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    No, we wouldn't have ended up with Hickson coming back. But we probably would have found another big for the bench.
     
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    Hurts to think about it. We would be in the playoffs with our PG, PF and C set for the next many years--wondering what wings we could add. Oh well.
     
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    We would have had the same record, because as soon as the ink dried on the contract he would have been out the whole season with microfracture surgery.
     
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    Much better. It's hard to imagine what the ceiling would be with a very good defensive center considering how horrible the bench was and still would have been with or without hibbert
     
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    BlazerWookee UNTILT THE DAMN PINWHEEL!

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    With Hibbert, I think we finish ahead of the L*kers.
     
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    6th seed, I think, but of course we'll never know.
     
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    If we'd signed Hibbert, we wouldn't have purposely stocked the worst bench in the league. Between Hibbert and a better bench, I could see us in the second round.
     
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    Don't you mean "the dude would"?
     
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    98-0 (playoffs included)
     
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    Playoffs for sure. He's slow, methodical, and can barely jump, but he's effective as hell. Stats understate his impact.
     
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    Indeed, the Dude would
     
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    Olshey waited till August 7 to hire Stotts. With Hibbert, he'd have hired a more defensive coach.
     
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    Rastapopoulos Well-Known Member

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    Bump. Damn damn damn.
     
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    Floor = 1st round
    Ceiling (this year) = 2nd round
     
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    Something about Hibbert seems to make me think of Kevin Duckworth.
     
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    You're not alone there.
     
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