paulpressey25 wrote:Siefer wrote:Jeff Teague is looking very solid. He's averaging 18/9/3 on 42%, and he's getting to the line over 7 times a game. You'd like to see better three-point and free-throw shooting, but that's pretty good stuff overall. It looks like he's taking another moderate leap, and if he keeps playing this way, you can mark it as another botched move/missed opportunity by Hammond and friends.
I don't think many here would have balked if we had just offered him $10mm a year, which would have made Danny Ferry think twice about matching.
The difference would have been the contracts of Delfino and Ridnour, neither of whom we need. Or Caron's contract.
The cba is the way it is so that teams can keep their players and other teams are essentially forced to overpay. We offered a completely vanilla deal to Teague that the Hawks would only decline to match if they just didn't want him back period.
If he was our guy, and I'm not entirely sure he should have been, we needed to offer him 10 or 11 million and really taken our shot. Why we would cheap out on a legit starter but overspend on backup quality players on multi year deals is baffling. The Delfino contract especially is insane considering we knew about his injury and are loaded with mediocre wing players as well as giannis and the only purpose of signing him is to make sure Middleton and giannis don't see the floor.
These are the issues you'd expect of a g m going into his first season not after 5 seasons. An unbalanced roster where all your best prospects are blocked by mediocre vets for bench minutes and a starting lineup with no distributors or reliable scorers that fits together poorly. Yet all we get is dissembling and more of the same failed strategt
