Pacers Odds and Ends

[Pacers_Freak]

There are too many nowadays

I try and prioritize Caitlin Cooper for her basketball knowledge and Tony East for his reporting and look at the team. Even then, I can’t find enough time for the daily Tony East “Locked on Pacers” podcasts. Otherwise, I only listen to ones that have something new and important, like Kevin Pritchard interviews or the like.

Yeah, I'm retired, so I just don't have the time anymore. There should be a Yogi Berra type quote somewhere in that, but I can't think of one.

I think you are doing retirement wrong my friend.

[Topofthekey]

And if there’s not much market for their services, in theory, how great of young talent are they? The next time Sumner hits free agency, he’ll be unrestricted. I think he’ll have some interest after the season he just had.

I think it's more of a supply and demand thing

There's an abundance of serviceable backup guards for teams who are looking for them. And almost every team has one or two of these type of potential diamond in the rough type of young players

Warriors have Damion Lee and Jordan Poole, Lakers have Talen Horton-Tucker, Celtics have Carson Edwards, 76ers have Shake Milton, Hornets have Devonte Graham, etc

For us, we have Sumner and Stanley, and to an extent Aaron Holiday

In most cases teams like their own guy better anyway, so it's not really so much about how good talent Sumner or Stanley are. There's just no need go out of the way to poach the 8th or 9th guy from another team, when they can just re-sign their own. Unless we're taking about someone who had a breakout season. Although we saw that Sumner had a nice season, it's not like he took a step towards stardom, so I don't think teams are making plans to acquire him

But yea, the point is it's very possible to sign a serviceable 8th or 9th man cheaply, especially if the team pays more attention to the G league

And besides, Malcolm Brogdon is our biggest contract. We don't have any other big contracts to worry about, so I think we can afford to do the "combine his $20m contract and someone's else's $10/20m contract for a $30/40m player" thing

[Wizop]

Malcolm Brogdon is our biggest contract. We don't have any other big contracts to worry about, so I think we can afford to do the "combine his $20m contract and someone's else's $10/20m contract for a $30/40m player" thing

I'm not in favor of Brogdon plus Lamb for one high priced player. I want to stop trading our picks for veterans and work the draft. Now if one of our players earns a big contract, that's different.

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