<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Recently waived Knicks forward Shandon Anderson has agreed to sign with the Miami Heat, according to a league source. Anderson was in Miami on Saturday and has passed the team physical, paving the way for him to be officially signed either Sunday or Monday.</div> Source
The Heat have to release a player in order to add Anderson right? They will probably get rid of Jerome Beasley.
Wekkm this could turn out to me a good or bad signing for the heat depending on how Anderson performs. If they have to waive a player to get him, I too think it will end up being Jerome Beasley but I was hoping to see him play a little this season. This will take away any chances of Dorell Wright seeing minutes.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">"A number of teams -- including the Bulls, Rockets, Nuggets and Warriors -- also made a push for Anderson. However, Anderson wanted to join a team with a legitimate shot at an NBA title."</div> Shows that our bench will only get better as time goes on, players will join the heat because we've become a title contender, we only get better... Source
This is a good signing for the Heat. Shandon Anderson wont give them much offensive kick. But I think they needed that other quality perimeter defender to go along with Eddie Jones. Now you can use both Ej & Anderson to cover some of the league's top wing players. So the Heat added depth from that standpoint. I think Anderson is a halfway decent player, just never worth the money he got in New York. And his jumpshot is extremely inconsistent.
Not a major signing by the Heat. All they got was a decent defender who can't shoot if his life depended on it. I don't have the slightest idea on why the Heat were so interested in him in the first place.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting heatfan:</div><div class="quote_post">The Heat have to release a player in order to add Anderson right? They will probably get rid of Jerome Beasley.</div> We don't have anymore room on IR, so unfortunately yes. Beasley needs to stay, he is going to be a big part of the future of this franchise, if anyone is going to go, it's got to be Matt Freije.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting mrj18:</div><div class="quote_post">Not a major signing by the Heat. All they got was a decent defender who can't shoot if his life depended on it. I don't have the slightest idea on why the Heat were so interested in him in the first place.</div> Pretty much our entire bench is stacked with perimeter shooters, we needed a quality defender for late defensive replacements in place of guys like Rasual and whatnot. Defense wins championships and the Heat going after a quality defensive stopper like Shandon Anderson shows that they're a contender and not an overhyped pretender like most people thought going into this season.
This is a good signing considering Anderson can provide us with a defensive presence on our bench besides Keyon Dooling. Hopefully he's just here to scare the rest of the SFs into becoming better defenders.
This is a nice pickup for te Heat. Like heatfan83 said he will provide us with a defensive presence coming off the bench and hopefully contain some of the better scorers on the perimeter.
id suggest that yall shouldnt hold such high hopes for shandon...hes a horrible shooter, a great slasher but he hardly drives, and i feel he's overrated as a defender after watching him for 3 years with the Rockets...
Damn it feels good to have a defensive presence in this team. Shandon Anderson played pretty well for the minutes he got getting 2pts on 1-2 shooting and 2 assists plus defense intangibles. Btw Freije got waived.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting heatfan83:</div><div class="quote_post">Damn it feels good to have a defensive presence in this team. Shandon Anderson played pretty well for the minutes he got getting 2pts on 1-2 shooting and 2 assists plus defense intangibles. Btw Freije got waived.</div> Thank God Jerome Beasly didnt get waived. He has a ton of potential, they need to give him some minutes though, same with Dorrell Wright. JErome will probably end up being traded though and ebcome a good player there. At least its what I think will happen. As with Shandon Anderson I agree with most of you and say hes a great pick-up and a nice defender coming off the becnh giving us depth.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Ace2k2:</div><div class="quote_post">Thank God Jerome Beasly didnt get waived. He has a ton of potential, they need to give him some minutes though, same with Dorrell Wright. JErome will probably end up being traded though and ebcome a good player there. At least its what I think will happen. As with Shandon Anderson I agree with most of you and say hes a great pick-up and a nice defender coming off the becnh giving us depth.</div> I think Beasley would be good too but I guess the Heat still consider him a defensive liability. One thing to look forward to is we decided to keep him so maybe he is improving Honestly I think signing Shandon Anderson is a step in the right direction as far as improving our bench goes. He gives a veteran defensive presence to guard Fs and SGs (which we have none). Perhaps people will not ridicule our bench as much as before
