According to Hoops Hype Stro has a player option for $6,200,000 next season, which he may or may not exercise if all he is going to be doing is sitting on the pine. Now assuming he doesnt exercise that option, due mainly to the fact in the depth chart he sits behind Boone, SWat, Curly and probably Diop now as well... That gives us 45,590,000 of committed salaries for next year. Not much for a splash on a big name but still a reasonable amount of money to resign Diop, Krstic and Nachbar and maybe a shooter. Now do we try and sign all three? If Armstrong is willing to play for the min will we sign him as insurance? Given Krstic's injury woes his market value right now could be at its lowest ever. Is a 2 yr $10 mil a fair offer since it gives him a chance to earn more if he returns to his old self? If his agent has any brains he'll be looking for a short contract giving his client a closer window of oppotunity to get a bigger pay day. Maybe a 2 yr 10mil with a 3 yr player option of 5.8mil, covering his ass if he isnt the same old Krstic. Nachbar has been inconsistant and very poor at times. He is currently on a cheap-as-chips $2.5 this year. Do we offer him a similar number? Diop is a pretty talented shotblocker and is on a very cheap rate considering also. Is he more of a s&t candidate given we have Sean and Josh? What do you think the top brass are leaning towards?
It's not even a conversation until the season is over and they see how Krstic rounds into shape. Everything depends on that. If he doesn't play well I can see the Nets offering him the qualifying offer and turn their attention to getting a scoring low post threat. Which means Diop is gone and could impact a Boki resigning. Nenad is the first domino. Armstrong is done after this season.
The only person I see the team resigning is Krstic. I don't know how well regarded Diop is around the league. It all depends on how well he plays for the Nets the rest of the year. DA is probably gonna retire and the Nets will probably sign another 32+ years old pg.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Netted @ Feb 20 2008, 10:33 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>It's not even a conversation until the season is over and they see how Krstic rounds into shape. Everything depends on that. If he doesn't play well I can see the Nets offering him the qualifying offer and turn their attention to getting a scoring low post threat. Which means Diop is gone and could impact a Boki resigning. Nenad is the first domino. Armstrong is done after this season.</div> Good call. It is fun to speculate though... Plus why is DA done? He still hustles like a mofo!
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (downunderwonder @ Feb 20 2008, 10:19 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>cmon, im itching for the 100 reasons why im wrong...</div> Well your problem is you're posting at 5am. No one signs on the board until they get to work or wakes up sometime after 9am.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (razel231 @ Feb 20 2008, 10:40 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (downunderwonder @ Feb 20 2008, 10:19 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>cmon, im itching for the 100 reasons why im wrong...</div> Well your problem is you're posting at 5am. No one signs on the board until they get to work or wakes up sometime after 9am. </div> Im in Australia my man. It was 6pm where Im at... Wheres the downunder netsfan posse?
Krstic is basically the only one safe, we really can judge anything right now also cause we have to wait int ll after the draft.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (downunderwonder @ Feb 20 2008, 05:03 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>According to Hoops Hype Stro has a player option for $6,200,000 next season, which he may or may not exercise if all he is going to be doing is sitting on the pine. Now assuming he doesnt exercise that option, due mainly to the fact in the depth chart he sits behind Boone, SWat, Curly and probably Diop now as well... That gives us 45,590,000 of committed salaries for next year. Not much for a splash on a big name but still a reasonable amount of money to resign Diop, Krstic and Nachbar and maybe a shooter. Now do we try and sign all three? If Armstrong is willing to play for the min will we sign him as insurance? Given Krstic's injury woes his market value right now could be at its lowest ever. Is a 2 yr $10 mil a fair offer since it gives him a chance to earn more if he returns to his old self? If his agent has any brains he'll be looking for a short contract giving his client a closer window of oppotunity to get a bigger pay day. Maybe a 2 yr 10mil with a 3 yr player option of 5.8mil, covering his ass if he isnt the same old Krstic. Nachbar has been inconsistant and very poor at times. He is currently on a cheap-as-chips $2.5 this year. Do we offer him a similar number? Diop is a pretty talented shotblocker and is on a very cheap rate considering also. Is he more of a s&t candidate given we have Sean and Josh? What do you think the top brass are leaning towards?</div> I think Stro showed enough in the Raptors game to merit being the 4th big off the bench right now...which is not bad considering we're limiting Nenad to under 20 mins meaning there is 68 minutes to go between the other 3 bigs (Josh, Sean and Stro) given how Sean is prone to foul trouble I'd say its feasible that Stro gets 20+ a night from here on out... As for Krstic's contract...given what other players are making Im think 2 years 15 million with an option for a third year at 10 million...if he returns to form pre injury its a steal...if he continues to get around 8 and 8 then its on par with the rest of the league and we let him go in 2 seasons...
Unless we give Boki a really small contract, I don't think we should re-sign him. He was supposed to be a great off-the-bench shooter for us this season, but he has been very inconsistent. The last few games he has showed some promise, but where was he the first half of the season? Like the members above me mentioned, Krstic is the only safe. He will be much cheaper this offseason because of the injury he sustained earlier. The question is, can he get back to top form?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (The Joker @ Feb 20 2008, 11:32 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Unless we give Boki a really small contract, I don't think we should re-sign him. He was supposed to be a great off-the-bench shooter for us this season, but he has been very inconsistent. The last few games he has showed some promise, but where was he the first half of the season? Like the members above me mentioned, Krstic is the only safe. He will be much cheaper this offseason because of the injury he sustained earlier. The question is, can he get back to top form?</div> If we don't trade him for Mike Miller than it's imperative that we resign him...he's our only consistent shooter and I've actually enjoyed watching him play lately...he's an excellent bench player...maybe not a sixth man but definately a solid rotation...if we can keep him for years at like 17mill or 4 for 22 mill he'd be worth it.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (jloc857 @ Feb 20 2008, 11:36 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (The Joker @ Feb 20 2008, 11:32 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Unless we give Boki a really small contract, I don't think we should re-sign him. He was supposed to be a great off-the-bench shooter for us this season, but he has been very inconsistent. The last few games he has showed some promise, but where was he the first half of the season? Like the members above me mentioned, Krstic is the only safe. He will be much cheaper this offseason because of the injury he sustained earlier. The question is, can he get back to top form?</div> If we don't trade him for Mike Miller than it's imperative that we resign him...he's our only consistent shooter and I've actually enjoyed watching him play lately...he's an excellent bench player...maybe not a sixth man but definately a solid rotation...if we can keep him for years at like 17mill or 4 for 22 mill he'd be worth it. </div> The problem that I mentioned is he only started to show sparks a couple of weeks ago. He may not be a sixth man but you can't have him play well for only a portion of the season. What's the point?
jloc857 - - I agree with you on the players we need to resign....but your to generous with money. Kristic wont get a deal in the 8-10 million dollar age no matter if its an option.... He is gonna probably get a 3 year 12-15M dollar deal......Thorn wont committ that much money to a player who hasnt shown he is fully recovered from a very serious injury. and BOKI if we can give him a short contract that comes of the books quick....i mean dont forget BOKI is turning 29 soon....giving 4 years is wayyyy to much.....i say boki at 2 years 7 million and 3rd year team option at 4.5M making the contract 3yr 11.5 million
i dont think they resign boki, he's been a huge bust this year and is seen as a one year wonder, teams may be paying attention to him now but from what i've seen, he's missing wide open jumpers. im assuming we draft a swingman in the draft, sux that this draft is so big man and guard heavy
No that is not what I'm saying. You are saying the whole draft in guards and bigmen is top heavy.. Thats essentially everyone in the draft. Thanks for contributing a lot to this board again.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Boki3 @ Feb 20 2008, 03:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>No that is not what I'm saying. You are saying the whole draft in guards and bigmen is top heavy.. Thats essentially everyone in the draft. Thanks for contributing a lot to this board again.</div> relax. all he's saying is we need a swingman and the draft is strong in guards and big men.
Krstic 3 years 24 million will be the tops he gets, he's still young enough to prove his worth. Milicic got 3 years 21 million. Expect Krstic to surpass that contract, but not by much. I think he may get a 4th year offer from the Nets, but I think Krstic will expect to earn another contract, a bigger contract after this one. Diop boy very inconsistent player time, 3 years 16 million. He should get more on the open market, but I can't see with Krstic, how the nets can give more. Diop is gone after this year. DA, probably will retire after this season. Boki, this is a hard one. As a shooter, he should get decent offers, 2 years 8 million should be all he gets from us, not very consistent.
i don't get why everyone is assuming stro will be behind diop in the line for playing time.. what does diop do better than stro other than be big? the only reason i can see to play diop over stro is if the other team has a gigantic center, like shaq or eddy curry, who he might be able to do a better job against defensivly.
