i like guillermo diaz. i like douby. i like cedric simmons. i really like rondo except for his shot. i think farmar (having seen him first hand most of the year) is a very smart player, but his jumper is streaky, and he's not freakisly quick. he'll be a cerebral point, not a blow you away with skill point. collins seems similar but I'd take him if he fell. rondo is exceptionally fast, and very long, but not much of a shooter at this point. i'm tempted after seeing what snows lack of penetration/shooting could do to us, to reach on a guy who's listed a pg cause of height, but may actually be more of a 2 like diaz or douby. i think the second round will allow us to address a strong defensive inside presence, even if its just a stop gap til a better option opens up in future seasons. Some of you may enjoy this write up on Guillermo Diaz. The work ethic part definitely intrigued me more then I had been previously. If he continues to develop the handle, he may actually be adaptable to point:
http://www.draftexpress.com/viewarticle.php?a=1301
i'm glad less people here are willing to drop the whole mle on flip. one dimensional guards are not commodities worth more then 3 to 3.5 million. we have to be very frugal in how we spend what little cap room we have left, because unfortunately, z and larry and taking up over 20 million when based on contributions this season, they deserved nowhere near that. the reality is that for all of drew's shortcomings (which are mainly in the realm of consistency) he does have the skillset to earn a 7 mil a year contract. i wish he wouldn't command that, but i think he will. he can post up. his midrange game is coming along much better then it did last year, and he's a very good rebounder. i do want to keep him, but we may have to suck it up that we are losing depth up front in hopes that it will be better for us down the line. 7 million can get you much more in the backcourt then it can in the frontcourt. i think we see what his market is, and then if a good sign and trade option is available we take it.
I think what Ferry attempted to do last year was extremely admirable. Unfortunately, the guys we have locked up are looking overpaid and older by the day. Snow's contract is an albatross. So is Z's now. Donyell's looks fair. Damon's is definitely on the high end for what he did most of this year. Varejao is coming up in just one more season. And Larry is not what we payed for thus far. He has the most to prove if you ask me. Next year, I hope he figures out how to get back the alleged midrange game he had. Because he doesn't get the respect LBJ does going to rim, and we need someone who can create their own shot or get to the line.
I'm very nervous. Last season's offseason excited me at the time, but we could be headed down a path where we signed all these long deals and its a slippery slope of not seeing the results we want until we are all looking forward to another summer with cash to spend like last summer's which unfortunately is year's away when Snow, Z, and Larry are off our payroll. Our young commodities are the only guys we may lose in the meantime. And I don't want two years to go by, and find out Varejao has played himself out of our price range, Drew, Flip, and Sasha are gone, and what we have left is LBJ, and four aging deteriorating players in Snow, Jones, Marshall, and Z, and one overpaid 2 guard with a history of injuries (Hughes).
James is definitely more important than anything else we could even think of doing.
