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Singleton is averaging 13.6 boards and 2.8 blocks per 36 minutes in his first 5 games. Those numbers remind a little of a young Ben Wallace. I hope we resign him to a long term deal at a low salary. Something like 4 years, $10M with a team option on Year 4 would be sweet. He's the kind of guy who will always have a role on a team.

nate33 wrote:Singleton is averaging 13.6 boards and 2.8 blocks per 36 minutes in his first 5 games. Those numbers remind a little of a young Ben Wallace. I hope we resign him to a long term deal at a low salary. Something like 4 years, $10M with a team option on Year 4 would be sweet. He's the kind of guy who will always have a role on a team.

I didn't watch the last two games, but see he shot 6-19 , which seems like a big upswing in shots and misses. Anomaly or bad trend? Other than that stat, I sure like what I've seen and his numbers.

The good news is he's got a nice li'l jumper. The bad news is that, as a result, I've seen multiple situations where Foye/Boykins gave him the ball with the shot clock running down, hoping for a bailout J (if he were a Ben Wallace clone, he probably wouldn't even get the ball on those situations). Other than situations like that where he has to force a long jumper, he plays within himself offensively for the most part.

He's a little undersized, but I'd love to have him somewhere on the bench next year.

Would absolutely love him back next year. He plays tough, rebounds, defends, and he can make a jumpshot. Bring him back.

Oh he sets the best picks on the team by far.

Solid ass player, would love him back next year, damn it if we only still had Haywood. Haywood, Blatche, Singleton, McGee, and Oberto IMO is a little of everything solid front court. Throw in Arenas, Young, Boykins, Foye, Thorton, Howard, and 4 draft picks, hot damn, rebuilt on the quick. Now if only we can lure Haywood back in the offseason.

Already love Singleton. Dude plays hard on both ends and knows his role.

So you going to merge your own thread - LMAO

Love what JS brings also and I'd like to see him brought back under a reasonable contract for a role-player. If he were a better shooter, it would be gravy. I am concerned that because he is a high-energy player who rebounds well, that he will be played out of position. If think Flip is already mis-using JS for small-ball purposes. JS was guarding Gasol and had to resort to hacking him because of the height-difference.

4 yrs/$10 million? Holy crap. He's 28 years old right? 2 year deal at LLE money, which is what $2 million?

I like a 3-year deal with the 3rd year a team option. 2 mil per year sounds good.

nate33 wrote:Singleton is averaging 13.6 boards and 2.8 blocks per 36 minutes in his first 5 games. Those numbers remind a little of a young Ben Wallace. I hope we resign him to a long term deal at a low salary. Something like 4 years, $10M with a team option on Year 4 would be sweet. He's the kind of guy who will always have a role on a team.

What's intriguing to me about our own Big Game James (tm, Mikey Prada) is that he's been a decent offensive player his entire career. Dude's got a career PER of 14.2. Had a 16.4 PER and TS% of .614 in 62 games (14+ MPG) last year. He's in no way shape or form Mike Ruffin. His offense is good enough to keep him on the floor and his D is good enough to help the team win.

Losing Haywood still sucks donkey balls (hi Donkey!), but at least we may have gotten a cheap rotation-quality big out of it.

He reminds me of Udonis Haslem as a player - though he has to show he'll hit that 12-15 footer every time. Haslem is always in position to make that shot as soon as he gets the ball. Singleton's getting there, but he's not Haslem, yet.

Rafael122 wrote:4 yrs/$10 million? Holy crap. He's 28 years old right? 2 year deal at LLE money, which is what $2 million?

I didn't realize he was that old. Given his contract size, I thought he was a 2nd round pick coming to end of a rookie deal.

Seeing how he has bounced around the league a bit, I guess he could be signed cheaper. My goal is to try to lock him up long term to a pretty cheap deal. 3 or 4 years with a team option on the last year would be ideal. Obviously, the cheaper the better. Maybe he'll agree to something closer to $1M a year.

And Ruzious, I like the Haslem comparison. Singleton seems a bit more athletic, but he lacks Haslem's deadly midrange game.

GilArenas88 wrote:Solid ass player, would love him back next year, damn it if we only still had Haywood. Haywood, Blatche, Singleton, McGee, and Oberto IMO is a little of everything solid front court. Throw in Arenas, Young, Boykins, Foye, Thorton, Howard, and 4 draft picks, hot damn, rebuilt on the quick. Now if only we can lure Haywood back in the offseason.

I really hope Oberto is done here. I think Singleton replaces him and DMac. I think the Wizards need add a poor man's Haywood(7ft defensive C) to back-up/push McGee.