from the Kings website: <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The Sacramento Kings and veteran center Greg Ostertag today (July 20) agreed to a contract in principal, according to Kings President of Basketball Operations Geoff Petrie. Ostertag is expected to be in Sacramento tomorrow (July 21st) to sign the contract. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.</div> Linkage
This is good it will give Borchardt, Collins and Humphries more time in the frontcourt.. Boozer is for sure gonna be there and so is Okur but this might spread some minutes towards Humphries because he is more of a PF and Boozer wont be playing all 48 minutes of the game but this leaves us with 2 back up centers, ones injury-proned and the other is unproven.
I dont mind this at all, Utah will have more cap space and the younger big guys will get more minutes. Ostertag is average at best, and extremely inconsistent. Utah just couldn't find a replacement to start at C, and when they tried failed badly (John Amaechi). What Utah will miss most about him is his size and presence. They can fill the rebounding and shot blocking void. But I hope to see him do well in Sacramento, he was with Utah for a long time and was in the finals team.
can some of you who have watched him play in the stockton/malone days give me an idea of how well he handled the ball & how good he was at getting the ball around? I have never really been able to watch him play for any signifigant amount of time.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting harbingerofdoom:</div><div class="quote_post">can some of you who have watched him play in the stockton/malone days give me an idea of how well he handled the ball & how good he was at getting the ball around? I have never really been able to watch him play for any signifigant amount of time.</div> To put it simply, he doesn't. He's really just a big body, who can get the odd open dunk and gets his share of rebounds. He's no passer or scorer and gets in fould trouble. But he can start, just don't expect anything special.
Yes, no more Ostertag. I have spent years watching the Jazz, and Ostertag, somedays he just makes you hopeful, like finally we got a big men who's stable. But Most days, he just stands there and dosen't know what he's doing. I'm just damn happy right now. It'll give Collins, Brochardt, Humphries the time and space they need to develop into good role players or even good starters.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Stockton:</div><div class="quote_post">To put it simply, he doesn't. He's really just a big body, who can get the odd open dunk and gets his share of rebounds. He's no passer or scorer and gets in fould trouble. But he can start, just don't expect anything special.</div> you are not making me feel very warm and fuzzy on this one....
Hey now, Ostertag will give you a 14 point, 12 rebound, 4 block game, its just once every 10 to 15 games. In the past few post-seasons, he has stepped his game up, but thats just to an average center's quality. Just be ready for him to get pOSTERized.
Not a bad pickup for the Kings. Losing Vlade is a huge hit of course.. But to put it simply having Ostertag around means 6 fouls on Tim Duncan, if anything I'm doubtful he'll be able to contribute to the uptempo offense so I'd imagine he'd come off the bench in spurts, and the Kings would stick with Miller/Webber/Stojakovic in the front court for the most part..
