Not disagreeing here - but he was significantly better than others who are still on the roster (Walker, Little, Keon, Williams). Why not move on from one of those other guys who are not as good?
I think Walker > Watford, but Watford could do a little of everything and was a great team guy. I'll miss him, and his low salary. He was the summer league MVP. Someone should start an Appreciation Thread.
I'm not saying that would have been ideal but Phoenix who won more games than any opponent against Denver may have been better. Their bench rotation was shit in the playoffs; Josh Okogie 17.5mpg Jock Landale 16.1mpg TJ Warren 13.5mpg
Rosters don't have any offseason limit; they have to be cut to 15 around October. Yeah its possible they think the roster issue would bleed into the regular season, this smells more like the Vulcans/Jody being cheap.
Hmmm..... just looking at the potential roster going into next season (without trading Dame) Dame Ant Sharpe Scoot Thybulle Nurk Grant Nas Murray Keon Badji Walker JBJ Rupert That's 14 guys. Assuming we also plan on signing a free agent. Not sure if we're keeping Badji or JBJ I think we can make a safe assumption that the goal is to at least bring back Dame Sharpe Scoot Simons Thybulle Grant Nurk Murray Rupert Walker Keon Nas That's 12. We can also make an assumption that Simons won't be back, but most likely SOMETHING would be coming back in that trade. I guess I can see why they'd cut him. If we don't make some moves, we have a lot of fringe rotation guys and not a lot of actual rotation guys.
I hope Pop picks him up. Watford looks like he will become a great bench guy, handles it well for his size, great lob passer, perfect for SA.
Watford is a tweener...when he got big minutes we got our butt kicked. We want to contend, we need more talent and size. Nice guy..not a needle mover.will benefit from playing overseas where he can crack a rotation and make some money. We didn't let him walk because of money, we let him go because we want the roster spot.
He is certainly not a dime-a-dozen end-of-bench PF. He has skills. I do like him better than Walker and Williams. But he is not better than Little IMO. Keon could fill a need when Ant is traded. (as a backup SG, not PG)
So was Watford his first year. That can get converted...I'd much rather have Badji on the bench than TWatt
Is really dislike this Move. Hes not some world Beater, that he is a minimum salary player on a minimum salary contract we will need to fill the roster with those, why not a guy that knows the system well
We let Knox walk and he's a first round pick that I think had more talent than TWatt who wasn't even drafted. Get ready to see a lot of our 3rd stringers disappear from the roster
Someone said Watford was not very good and he is limited but has a little potential but still surprising cause he was really liked by fans but more I think about it this has to be setting up for more moves. IF the Blazers really were doing a rebuild and/or going cheap there is no reason to release him now we have to put our faith in Cronin. I know I said it put our faith in Cronin but hopefully the others around him will balance out his stupid but this ramps up my being nervous cause now we will see what's next and with Cronin that is like a mystery box on "Let's Make a Deal" could be something good or we could get ZONKED -- LOL
