Mayo signs with Bucks - 3 years/$24 million per Woj

[ampd]

Give him 2/20 and Teague 4/38?

Teague
Mayo
AK
Ersan
Sanders

White PG from somewhere
??
Greek kid
Henson
Udoh

Add another decent guard and we can be competitive I guess. 4th to 7th seed.

Needs bench scoring (really scoring period, but yeah). No idea who that is though with Dunleavy gone. Devin Harris / Nick Young seem like the most likely candidates although not the best obviously. Maybe Wolters can do it but seems like a bit of a long shot.

[Sigra]

Happy with everything. Years, amount, age, shooting ability, EVERYTHING.

[tydett]

Happy with everything. Years, amount, age, shooting ability, EVERYTHING.

Oh Snap, Sigra with the updated sig... (ruh).

[eagle13]

Good deal on Mayo - a more efficient ellis!

I like Teague, AK and Cory Brewer as 6th man

Hawks probably match on Teague

blazers said to be interested in Sam s&t - maybe Dragic?

MIL- Sam udoh moute 2nd / dragic
POR- Matthews / sam udoh 2nd
PHX- Dragic / Matthews moute

[Baddy Chuck]

Portland still has the MLE I believe, they could easily get Dalembert. He has virtually no value in sign and trades.

[blkout]

White PG from somewhere

You know exactly where

[Det the Threat]

Well, 3 years and $24 mil isn't all that bad, considering what Hammond normally pays in free agency and given the amount of years.

I think idially you're looking to sign hometown favourite Devin Harris and try to get something from the Nuggets in a sign and trade for Ellis.
They've got a guy like Wilson Chandler or maybe you can get Evan Fournier.

[Fort Minor]

Can't believe it. I'm actually okay with this deal because I've rarely watched Mayo play.

Not true at all, though admittedly it's probably more of an "we could have done so much worse" type of thing.

[stellation]

White PG from somewhere

You know exactly where

St Mary's!

[Godgers]

Wow I was shocked waking up and seeing this. I can do 3/24 for Mayo. Good signing. Hopefully now we work on getting a PG not named Jennings.

Would prefer Teague and Corey Brewer. Wanted Aminu.

[Bfinkish]

Would be funny if we were able to assemble a squad of foreign guys who all speak english but still nobody can understand each other.

this made my day. Let's get Bogut back...

[Bfinkish]

Happy with everything. Years, amount, age, shooting ability, EVERYTHING.

Agree w u. also - love the sig pic dude. very cool. teague would look pretty sweet next to mayo; then i'll get more excited than i have in a long time.

[ReasonablySober]

He was also nearly traded for Josh McRoberts, in the infamous botched deal that got the ball rolling on Morway's departure from Indy.

But yeah, that's kind of the thing. Talent is there, numbers aren't bad, but teams have done better without him and the smart teams haven't valued him highly. We shall see.

I'd feel a lot better about his game if he stopped taking stupid shots. For a guy that can hit at a nice rate from behind the arc he takes a lot of long twos, mid-range shots and contested floaters. He's a numbers nightmare as the pick and roll ball-handler, and that's the primary source of his offense. He's a turnover and poor-shot machine.

[ReasonablySober]

We have low standards in Milwaukee. Like DB stated early on in this thread, Mayo has been a net negative so far in his career. He's only had one Roland Rating that eclipsed 0 thus far in his career, and it was just barely, at +0.5, a few years ago. And we're happy we only gave him 8 million per year? I guess it's an OK deal for the Bucks, when precedents are contracts like 5/32 for Drew freaking Gooden.

A lot of people here were scared about overpaying Smith, but he only got 6 million per year, and he's a much better player than Mayo. Smith's Roland Ratings during Mayo's career: +3.7, +0.5, +1.8, +3.5, and +6.5. I'd have been thrilled with giving him 8-9 million per year in comparison. That should have landed him in Milwaukee.

I think this is another mistake by the Bucks, it's just not a Bucks' bad mistake, so I guess we're supposed be relieved about that. It's sickening being a fan of this franchise. <Cue Jim Paschke clone appearing to tell me how much of a baby I am to expect to win more than 43% of the time and have occasional hope to contend>

Yea, a day later and I'm still really confused at the number of people fine with this deal. Mayo sucks, but since we didn't give him a cap killing five year deal we should celebrate?

There are some things to like about Mayo. He can shoot and he can get his own shot and produce. But he does so many bad things on the court that it easily out-weighs the negatives thus far.

I guess if you want to hang your hat on the fact that he's only now entering his prime and maybe he refines his game now that he's got his first big contract and he's playing with a new coach...I don't know. Willing to wait and see. But it's tough to find the positives in paying a bad player $8 million a season.

[TroyD92]

Small victories are usually all we can hope for.

[ReddWing]

I like the deal, and I think he is a perfect fit for Drew's system, although I really hope we find a 3 who can defend and shoot from the corner. Maybe Luc becomes that (he did shoot well from the corner last season) but I have my doubts about that happening at this point.

If I knew for a fact that we were going to sign / acquire a 3 and D small forward I would almost be ok with bringing Monta back to play PG. Monta is better at the drive and dish than both Teague and Jennings put together. If he had 3 other shooters on the floor with him, that team would actually make sense, provided Larry Drew could convince him to stop shooting mid range jumpers off the dribble.

However I fully expect us to extend BJ.

Prince Joffrey?

[MrPerfect1]

We have low standards in Milwaukee. Like DB stated early on in this thread, Mayo has been a net negative so far in his career. He's only had one Roland Rating that eclipsed 0 thus far in his career, and it was just barely, at +0.5, a few years ago. And we're happy we only gave him 8 million per year? I guess it's an OK deal for the Bucks, when precedents are contracts like 5/32 for Drew freaking Gooden.

A lot of people here were scared about overpaying Smith, but he only got 6 million per year, and he's a much better player than Mayo. Smith's Roland Ratings during Mayo's career: +3.7, +0.5, +1.8, +3.5, and +6.5. I'd have been thrilled with giving him 8-9 million per year in comparison. That should have landed him in Milwaukee.

I think this is another mistake by the Bucks, it's just not a Bucks' bad mistake, so I guess we're supposed be relieved about that. It's sickening being a fan of this franchise. <Cue Jim Paschke clone appearing to tell me how much of a baby I am to expect to win more than 43% of the time and have occasional hope to contend>

I would have rather not signed Mayo, but would take him before JR Smith for many reasons:

-Much less of a Knucklehead. Can you imagine JR Smith in MIL on a losing team? Last thing we need is him poisoning MIL's young players

-If JR is better, all the reason for Mayo. We don't need JR catching fire during the year and hurting any tanking efforts

[msiris]

Its not a bad deal, but it Mayo we are talking about. He does not do anything well. Just another 8th seed run we are looking at.

[White+Purple]

White PG from somewhere

South Dakota State?

[hege53190]

Small victories are usually all we can hope for.

You mean small defeats. right?

This is much better than getting railroaded like the Drew Gooden deal, the Corey Magette deal, the Stephen Jackson deal, and The Tobias Harris Deal or even the proposed Monta Ellis deal but I would say we are still quite a ways away from the win column on this deal.

I would consider anyone that thinks that this OJ Mayo deal is a good to be suffering from Stockholm syndrome.