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Baddy Chuck wrote:

Nebula1 wrote:This Utah team is so talented, but not producing the way the should. Granted the bulk of their games have been on the road so far, but their results should be better.

They need to blow it up. Hayward and Favors are good young players and Kanter/Burks need more time to show what they have. Millsap is a good player, but the rest of their vets (Mo/Big Al/Williams etc) are all pretty mediocre at best.

paul wrote:Bynum hurt his knee bowling? He should have stuck to knuckle pushups with KLove instead.

Kegan (Chapel Hill, NC)

What are your thoughts on the Hakim Warrick - Matt Carroll trade from yesterday?
Chad Ford  (1:29 PM)

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Seriously ... goes to show you how much owners and GMs overvalue players. Both guys got a lot of money on long-term guaranteed deals and now don't play at all. I think GMs should start crowd sourcing their free agent contracts. When the deal is being negotiated, they should leak it. If the overwhelming reaction from the internet is OVERPAID ... they should cut bait. How many of these deals every really workout for the team that signs them?

Ayt wrote:

DrugBust wrote:Interesting note from Bucher.

Maybe my astute Tweeples know this, but I can assure you some team personnel do not: if you offer an Asik-or-Lin type deal to an RFA with the money stacked in one particular year, those are the terms for the incumbent team matching it. Rockets, though, don't have to pay it out that way or have it count against their cap as such -- Asik, I'm told, is getting $8 million a year for three years, not the $5m-$5m-$14m as written in the offer sheet the Bulls had to match. Or so a confab of two GMs told me in person. Hard to see why every RFA contract here on out won't be constructed with pain-in-the-$%^* terms.

Wow.

Bucher is a **** moron. This only applies to RFA's who qualify for the Arenas' rule. How is this guy paid to cover the NBA? There are strict guidelines as to how contracts can be structured.

The Arenas rule rarely comes up because it only applies to 2nd round picks and undrafted guys who blow up. Houston just happened to have signed two of them in one offseason in Asik and Lin. It could not come up again for several more seasons because it is so rare for a 2nd rounder or undrafted guy to blow up to the point that they'll be offered more than the MLE on their second contract as an RFA.

http://www.cbafaq.com/salarycap.htm#Q44

Bucher is paid big bucks to cover the NBA and he can't take the 5 minutes or less it should take to read and understand that rule?

CanadaBucks wrote:Klank is back. Thompson with one game this year shooting better than 40%. 15.2 FGA/gm and 15.1/ppg.

paul wrote:

CanadaBucks wrote:Klank is back. Thompson with one game this year shooting better than 40%. 15.2 FGA/gm and 15.1/ppg.

That doesn't even describe how bad he's been, this must be the worst shooting slump since he reached double figures in age.

Say what you want about that Warriors team but they are mega competitive. They are over .500 and have just come back from down 20 to give the Thunder everything they can handle at home despite Bogut being out and getting virtually zero from Curry and Thompson all season long.

CanadaBucks wrote:

paul wrote:

CanadaBucks wrote:Klank is back. Thompson with one game this year shooting better than 40%. 15.2 FGA/gm and 15.1/ppg.

That doesn't even describe how bad he's been, this must be the worst shooting slump since he reached double figures in age.

Say what you want about that Warriors team but they are mega competitive. They are over .500 and have just come back from down 20 to give the Thunder everything they can handle at home despite Bogut being out and getting virtually zero from Curry and Thompson all season long.

Just got to wonder with Thompson was last year the norm or this year?

A guy with a jumper that good