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I'm fine with the FO deciding they want someone they hope can contribute right now....but then why sign Sanders in the first place? Better yet, if you signed him hoping he could give something this year....why wait this long to decide he couldn't?
 
shoes22 said:
It’s symptomatic of a reckless and indecisive organization, for starters.
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I just can't agree with that.

Using the bottom 20% of the roster to take chances for short and/or long term gain on guys and move on if they don't work out is neither indecisive or reckless.
 
Rich said:
I'm fine with the FO deciding they want someone they hope can contribute right now....but then why sign Sanders in the first place? Better yet, if you signed him hoping he could give something this year....why wait this long to decide he couldn't?
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I don't think this move was made with this year in mind. I think it's a chance to add 25 year old big to next years mix after(determining Sanders didn't have what they were looking for) at a time where other teams rosters were full. Had they waited till the summer, when teams had many more available roster spots, there could have been more competition for a young big who had a very good D League run this year.

I think the only moves that were done in season this year that the team had any expectations of being for the playoffs were Korver, Deron, and Bogut.

The rotation was always going to shrink to 8-9 guys come the playoffs.
 
MirORich said:
I don't think this move was made with this year in mind. I think it's a chance to add 25 year old big to next years mix after(determining Sanders didn't have what they were looking for) at a time where other teams rosters were full. Had they waited till the summer, when teams had many more available roster spots, there could have been more competition for a young big who had a very good D League run this year.

I think the only moves that were done in season this year that the team had any expectations of being for the playoffs were Korver, Deron, and Bogut.

The rotation was always going to shrink to 8-9 guys come the playoffs.
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So they signed Sanders with next year in mind, gave him no PT, no training camp, not many practices, and decided to just waste a little more money?

Maybe, but then they arent very bright, are they.

I'd buy this being a next year move except for the fact they just had a next year big on the team and cut him before he had any type of shot to show he could contribute next year.
 
MirORich said:
I just can't agree with that.

Using the bottom 20% of the roster to take chances for short and/or long term gain on guys and move on if they don't work out is neither indecisive or reckless.
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Come on man. How is going from one long term project big to the next in a span of 3 weeks not indecision? You can't sign projects and then give up on them after a few weeks. That's crazy.

Which is why this being a project signinf makes no sense at all.
 
Sanders was evaluation.

How could they possibly know what he'd look like and act like off of two workouts?

The Bogut injury happened and they took their chance on Sanders. They evaluated him based on practice, a few D league games, and a few times on the bench with the team. Likely evaluated him based on his attitude and general fit in the locker room.

Evalutated, decided they had seen enough to know they rather invest an end of the bench spot on someone else.

Why is that considered indecision and not evaluation and due diligence? Yes it could be either, but I don't see it as definitively "indecision"
 
MirORich said:
Sanders was evaluation.

How could they possibly know what he'd look like and act like off of two workouts?

The Bogut injury happened and they took their chance on Sanders. They evaluated him based on practice, a few D league games, and a few times on the bench with the team. Likely evaluated him based on his attitude and general fit in the locker room.

Evalutated, decided they had seen enough to know they rather invest an end of the bench spot on someone else.

Why is that considered indecision and not evaluation and due diligence? Yes it could be either, but I don't see it as definitively "indecision"
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I have to side with you. You just do not evaluate something in a few days or weeks you need time for both parties to come the point they know it will not work. With Sanders it is not lack of effort but more they saw it would not work. So went to plan C and sometimes the third time is a charm.
 
He wasn't going to crack the regular rotation so that reasoning is moot. Thoroughly confused by this move.


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Maybe he sucked and wasn't in a good place mentally

I mean he had a lot of issues with the bucks.
Maybe he didn't change
 
MirORich said:
Sanders was evaluation.

How could they possibly know what he'd look like and act like off of two workouts?

The Bogut injury happened and they took their chance on Sanders. They evaluated him based on practice, a few D league games, and a few times on the bench with the team. Likely evaluated him based on his attitude and general fit in the locker room.

Evalutated, decided they had seen enough to know they rather invest an end of the bench spot on someone else.

Why is that considered indecision and not evaluation and due diligence? Yes it could be either, but I don't see it as definitively "indecision"
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If they weren't willing to give him more than a few weeks to see if it would work, why didn't they sign him to a ten day? Why just throw money down a hole?

And if they were willing to cut a guy you're arguing was signed as a long term project, why won't they do the same to Tavares?

And regardless, if Sanders looked so damn bad that they knew, without a doubt, that he would never be able to contribute, then they scouted poorly. They could have had Tavares three weeks ago and not wasted money in the process.
 
tonyn said:
Maybe he sucked and wasn't in a good place mentally

I mean he had a lot of issues with the bucks.
Maybe he didn't change
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He probably did suck. But if you sign a project, wtf do you think you're getting? Develop him, or at least give it a real shot, which this was not.

Otherwise, sign him to a ten day and don't blow money like a rich kid addicted to coke.
 
It just doesn't make any sense. From start to finish. A lot of unknowns behind closed doors. You sign the guy to 2 years. Lue pulls strings to get him in his first game back. The fans give him the biggest welcome one could imagine. They never play him for more then couple mins. Let alone play him with the big 3 and then dump him.

I was so far off with my thinking. I knew something was off. My suspicion was just the opposite to what was really happening
 
Rich said:
He probably did suck. But if you sign a project, wtf do you think you're getting? Develop him, or at least give it a real shot, which this was not.

Otherwise, sign him to a ten day and don't blow money like a rich kid addicted to coke.
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When I say he might have sucked I was thinking more from a chemistry standpoint.

Like someone else said it might have been some some behind the scenes shit we don't know about.

And who knows it maybe he wasn't ready for the man lifestyle in terms of all the partying and what not.
Dudes got a history of not being able to handle all that stuff and its possible something happened out in atl.

But really its all speculation but in my mind it must have been pretty bad to just cut him Like that
 
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