Monta Ellis Agrees To Three-Year, $30M Deal With Mavericks...

You're hurting my brain.

 

Lol

 

Howdy, partner! You're posting over here now, RIC?

 

Ellis is not the answer. Nik said it best, having a selfish inefficant chucker on your team hurts your team no matter the stats that chucker put up.
From the players youv said you wanted this off season all I can say is thank god your not our GM or we would be as big a laughing stock as the bobcats or sactown.
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Ellis would have meant:
1) no Lopez
2) no Robinson
3) no Wright
4) a chucker next to Dame
5) a guaranteed me first character in the lockeroom.
6) money committed a year longer reducing flexability
7) Dame wouldn't have gotten his friend
8) lowered 3pt percentage

 

All that said is pure speculation.

 

Ellis is an inefficient chucker that has had one or two good seasons in his entire career. He's turned every fanbase he's played for against him.

 

Monta Ellis has been a starter on a team that's made it to the second round of the playoffs

 

Dallas is having the worst luck with personnel. their rookie guard Shane Larkin broke his ankle in practice today and will be out 2-3 months.

 

This entire board is about speculation, isn't it?

 

Monta stinks as a starter, he would be decent as an instant offense type off the bench, but no way he should see the minutes he sees

 

Shit, they only have 3 pgs left now

 

That's too bad, I wanted to see Larkin, he is intriguing for sure. Luckily an broken ankle shouldn't be a lingering issue, once it's healed, if if heals correctly, that issue can be in his rear view mirror.

 

agreed. he's got some game. at this rate, he could be back by pre-season. if not, just a few games into the season.

 

It is interesting which way the Blazers went. Ellis and Hickson wold have been about 15 million. That is over what the Blazers had but with the Rockets, the Warriors, the Pelicans and others able to shed large salary pretty easily, a little wheeling and dealing could have shaved 3 million. Instead they go with CJ and Lopez and add a couple of others (hopefully significant bench role players.

Could have gotten a couple of the bigger FA names but went with the well balanced value approach.

For the record, I like the well balanced value approach, but not as excited as others about the roster. Don't think many experts will be picking the Blazers for the playoffs . . . hoping to be the surprise team out of the west (again).

 

What wheeling and dealing would have netted Ellis and Hickson? Olshey already said in public that he wasn't going into next season with JJ as the starting center.

Is the team that much better only adding Ellis and McCollum this summer (and Crabbe, I suppose), which is basically what your approach would yield, since JJ was already on the team last season. Ellis is no bouncing around the league from mediocre team to mediocre team, and only scored a contract from Dallas because Cuban whiffed on everything else this summer. Dallas is on a big decline, and I won't be surprised if Dirk wants out after this season.

 

With Hickson and Ellis starting, we would have had the worst defense in the history of the world. I'm glad Olshey knows basketball is played at both ends of the court. Committing $45 million to those two over the next 3 years would have been an absolute disaster.

BNM

 

No thanks to him. He had a playoff PER=8.6 that year. Way to step it up when it counts. So glad Dallas signed him. It improves our odds of making the playoffs for the next 3 years.

BNM

 

Other impressive stats from the season when Monta Ellis "led" his team to the second round:

8.0 ppg
0.9 apg
1.8 TOV
.390 FG%
.111 3FG%
.394 eFG%
88 ORtg
112 DRtg
-0.041 WS/48

Yeah, Dallas sure pulled one over on us by giving Monta Ellis $10 million a year for the next 3 seasons. I bet you're shocked and outraged that Olshey passed on such a stud that really steps up his game in the post season. The good news for Dallas is that with Ellis starting for them they won't have to worry about him disappearing in the playoffs.

BNM