LOL he is friends with Joe Budden. That is cool. I like Jennings even more now. Buddens is a hella good rapper.
They might be interested in a S&T for Blake - Sessions will make more money than Blake and they will have a one year expiring of Blake before they hand the keys to the carriage to Jennings.
I trust Hinrich's defense more than Sessions - Hinrich was playing a lot out of position on a weaker defensive team (yep, the Bucks were a better defensive team than Chicago this year) - and yet their defensive win-score per minute is identical - and this was not a good year for Hinrich as he did 2, 3 and 4 years ago - which is somewhat to be expected playing in a different role coming back from injury. Sessions will be a better offensive guy to create from the dribble - but since I think that Hinrich's defense will be better - especially if he plays mostly PG and is healthy, and since he will easily replace Blake's 3-ball shooting while upgrading the defense - I think he immediately takes us to another level. The only reason to go for Sessions over Hinrich is if we think Bayless will never pan-out. If the team believes in him - Hinrich is the better option, imho. For the record - just to give you an idea - looking at defensive win-score per minute - Blake was at around 60% of these other two - and played on a better defensive team. Either one will likely be an upgrade, defensively - but I think that Hinrich will be a bigger one.
Brilliant evil plan. Only problem--what makes you think that no other team would offer more to Villanueva than we would? If (say) OKC offers CV 6M, and then MIL retains Sessions, we lose out on both, as well as a decent portion of the free agency period.
I haven't heard anything for awhile, but if you want to see an endless stream of "Just ran into Oden at Club X/walking down the street/at the movies" posts just do a search on twitter some time and scroll through. Kind of funny stuff.
Milwaukee would delay matching for two weeks (I think that's the time limit), tying up Portland's cap space for that time. During those two weeks, they'd go all out to resign Sessions if they want to keep him. No Sessions, then they can choose to match and keep CV. The only worse scenario for someone wanting to sign away Sessions would be to make him an offer and then some other team right away makes CV an offer. This gives Milwaukee two weeks to decide to sign one or both or neither. Seems to me the best strategy is to make the real offer to the real guy you want. If that's Sessions and the Bucks match, then you can offer CV a contract expecting Milwaukee to let him walk.
Good call. I gave it a shot. Some interesting tweets include: he's in Portland. he's having a good summer, I'm glad. funny. how unlucky would you have to be to have an NBA center sit between you and Megan Fox? he's a cheap date.
