The Sixerfan1976 Off-Season Thread (Update: Page 61)

[Negrodamus]

Seriously though? Earl Barron and Joel Anthony? How about saying no to drugs? We might as well pick up DJ Mbenga if you wanna spend the last of the cap space we have on a bum that won't play. Isn't Hilton Armstrong a free agent? I wouldn't mind him, he didn't get too much of a shot on the Hornets because of David West and Okafor

Let me get this straight, so you dislike the two ideas above but you're counter idea was a guy who has done just as little?

Earl Barron is fighting to be relevant in this league. He has taken a long road from the NBDL and produced a great amount in the small sample size of games towards the end of the year.

Hilton Armstrong has had 4 years to be a decent first rounder and he can't even get minutes. Thank you, but no thank you.

[HartfordWhalers]

Barron had 7 decent games. His D leagues stats weren't bad last year either, but I would hate to see a gm sign a 29 year old based off a brief glimpse of potential. I would think his 2008 nba numbers would be a much better predictor of his current ability.

[Gsraider]

Why set your sights so low on Barron when A. McCaskill hasn't signed yet with anyone?

[The Guilty Party]

It's great that SF has the inside connection that he does, but it somewhat stinks that after an exciting past month or two that the team doesn't figure to do much with the rest of the off-season.

[Kobblehead]

I'm just waiting for Earl Barron to get a contract offer from us so we can make him the next Jerome James.

[Bring Back 1983]

SF76, now that the draft is over and I'm presuming the possibility of trading Thad for one of the 2010 draft picks is now past, who would handicap as the favorites for us to make a deal with for him? It kind of puzzles me how he is not a natural fit for Memphis since (1) he is from there; (2) I'm 90% sure they are losing Gay; and (3) about 50% of their roster is 6' 10" or taller (or at least it seems that way).

[Skates]

At this point we have twoyoung, talented if flawed bigs who need to get minutes in Speights and Hawes, Brand who will get his minutes, Smith who may or may not play much and Young/Nocioni who will be playing PF in smaller lineups.

Two options, first, move Thad for a young big with promise or at least potential. Maybe a guy like Anthony Randolph.

If not, keep Thad and move Kapono for a tough, veteran guy who will be happy playing limited minutes, will compete hard in practice and contibute if injuries require him to fill in more minutes during the season. Foster, Nick Collison from OKC (who need shooting and just drafted Aldritch), one of the excess bigs in Detroit, etc, with an expiring contract is what we need.

Then you give the last roster spot (14th since we won't carry 15) to the best player they can find in summer league, whatever position he plays.

If you can't make a move for an impact big now, then the latter is the way to go and hope enough of our trade bait plays well enough early on to grab someone more significant at the trade deadline.

[Kobblehead]

Anthony Randolph weighs about 195-205 pounds. I don't care how much talent he has, he's useless come playoff time or in a half court set.

I'd actually keep Kapono, at least until the deadline. I think his efficiency numbers are going to soar if he's on a court with a passer like Hawes.

[Dedicated_76ers_fan]

Kapono-Green are expirings we need to keep. Late in the season, there may be a team that's disgruntled with one of it's players and we can 1) save that team a few couple of million and 2) add a guy to the squad.

And like Collins said, after FA, alot of teams are gonna strike out.

Btw LMAO at Atlanta, this is proof of how you DON'T build a roster. If they drafted by position of need, instead of those oh-so-talented scrubs they picked(Sheldon and Marvin Williams), their roster would look alot better.

Instead, Josh Smith and Joe Johnson figure to have bloated contracts for the next several years, tying them up and preventing any flexibility and moves for a very flawed roster.

[Skates]

Kapono-Green are expirings we need to keep. Late in the season, there may be a team that's disgruntled with one of it's players and we can 1) save that team a few couple of million and 2) add a guy to the squad.

And like Collins said, after FA, alot of teams are gonna strike out.

Btw LMAO at Atlanta, this is proof of how you DON'T build a roster. If they drafted by position of need, instead of those oh-so-talented scrubs they picked(Sheldon and Marvin Williams), their roster would look alot better.

Instead, Josh Smith and Joe Johnson figure to have bloated contracts for the next several years, tying them up and preventing any flexibility and moves for a very flawed roster.

If they trade Kapono for Foster or Collison, they still have an expiring contract just for a different guy, and one attached to a big man which might appeal more short term to a team dumping a high priced big. It would get you something more useful now and help or have no effect on your ability to trade at the deadline.

Randolph was just an example, not a very good one I admit, but in my defense it is Monday morning and I didn't feel like brainstorming for other young tall guys.

[Dedicated_76ers_fan]

Anthony Randolph is a guy I have some interest in, but at this point, he's all athleticism and not a basketball player. We already have one of those at a bloated salary, I couldn't stand adding another one.

Adding skill guys like Spencer Hawes and Evan Turner was a first .

[Kobblehead]

First he's a superstar and now he's not even a basketball player....

[Negrodamus]

Barron had 7 decent games. His D leagues stats weren't bad last year either, but I would hate to see a gm sign a 29 year old based off a brief glimpse of potential. I would think his 2008 nba numbers would be a much better predictor of his current ability.

I'm not expecting him to get more than the vet minimum. It's not like we will be breaking the bank for Barron.

[Dedicated_76ers_fan]

First he's a superstar and now he's not even a basketball player....

I was wearing Sixers homers glasses back then, kill me

[Kobblehead]

The solution to overhyping a player is not to switch to the other end of the spectrum and start hating him. Your posts would be alot more tolerable if you just found a happy medium.

[PhillyFan]

Waiting for the day Dedicated start bashing Thad Young*

[The Guilty Party]

Just as the mods have warned Dedicated regarding some of his posts, let me also issue this warning... baiting another poster into a petty argument isn't going to fly here.

[51X3RF4N]

So I'm assuming that after Thursday we will start to hear some more rumblings from SF.

I would like to know, is anyone here interested in a sign and trade of Iggy for any of the available and realistic Free Agents?

[HartfordWhalers]

Barron had 7 decent games. His D leagues stats weren't bad last year either, but I would hate to see a gm sign a 29 year old based off a brief glimpse of potential. I would think his 2008 nba numbers would be a much better predictor of his current ability.

I'm not expecting him to get more than the vet minimum. It's not like we will be breaking the bank for Barron.

At the minimum, why not on Barron. But he turned down the Knicks non-guaranteed contract, and supposedly a Washington contract, with his agent making claims to being worth 3-4 million a year. I doubt he gets that, but look at what Hollins got last year? 3 years 7 million? I think Barron might get 1.5 to 2 a year, at which point I have lost all interest.

[sixerfan1976]

i am on vacation at the beach til saturday with family...but i dont expect anything to get red hot sixer wise til the 8th or so...once the big name free agents have committed to teams and signed their deals.