Winglish wrote:The Utah Jazz have beaten the Spurs, Thunder, and Heat this season. To beat those teams, the Jazz employed their big lineup with Jefferson and Favors in the frontcourt and Millsap playing the small forward position. They went out and bullied those teams down low. Does anybody remember Millsap's 46 point game and winning three point shot against the Heat last year? He played small forward in that game also.
Millsap would provide a huge scoring and rebounding punch for the Clippers' second unit. He has been more than holding his own as a starter in the NBA for several years now. Millsap would be the 6th Man of the Year on the Clippers. He would also add a proven player who is also capable of playing the small forward spot when the Clippers want to go big.
Millsap is the tough, toolbox and hard hat kind of player that is willing to do the dirty work (a type of player the Clips definitely need, IMO).
Suppose Millsap does not re-sign at the end of the year...Worst case scenario? The end result would be an extra $8.5 million in salary cap space to sign whatever free agent is out there or to absorb extra salary in a trade.
Best case scenario? Clippers beat the Heat by throwing Jordan, Griffin, and Millsap together with Paul and Billups. The Heat are most vulnerable against teams with post depth. Millsap could be the piece that helps bring a title to LA.
Clippers are 1-1 vs Miami, 2-0 vs San Antonio, 0-2 vs Oklahoma City (one was OT in OKC and the other was without Paul. The OT game, Clips missed Butler & Hill). Washington has beaten some top teams as well. What is your point with that again? Mike Taylor dropped 30 in MSG at one point.
Clippers already have the 6MoY in Crawford, and a serviceable backup PF in Odom.
Millsap is an atrocious defender so he isn;t a dirty work kind of guy. Those kind of players refer to guys such as Kenyon Martin, Reggie Evans, Danny Fortson, Elton Brand, Charles Oakley, etc. Guys who defend, grab every board and get in opponents heads.
Millsap for Odom and Bledsoe will not give the Clippers an additional 8.5 million, but an additional 2.6 million in salary cap space, which is very minimal.
You want the Clippers to play Millsap at the three and expect him to guard LeBron? That is some good stuff you guys have up there in SLC.
Catchall wrote:Just FYI, our GM met with Millsap in the locker room after the game tonight. Apparently Millsap came out after a while smiling. I'm going to guess the GM didn't give him a massage. Not sure what this means, but it's a bit unusual here for a GM to talk to a player after a game.
Oh, and Millsap would be a healthy upgrade over Lamar Odom for you guys.
Personally, I think that if the Clips do trade for Millsap, it's probably as much about clearing some cap-room to pursue free agents this summer as it is about getting Millsap for the stretch run. The best way to keep CP happy is to bring in another cherry-picked FA along with his max deal. So moving Butler and Bledsoe helps that cause.
Maybe reassurance that he won't get traded? Or else something would be leaked big time.
RyanStorm wrote:After watching Burks play again tonight for 20+ minutes, I honestly don't want Bledsoe. We got to vets who aren't amazing, but Burks played more than our two active PG's and he out performed more than most would think against a team like GS. He is like a young athletic Curry, who just doesn't shoot 9 threes but does make 2-3. I rather have Burks for our bench PG than Bledsoe.
Jazz are way better off getting a draft pick PG, and keeping Mo(who really wants to be here), and use Burks as a Hybrid ball handler/shooter. Then to bring Bledsoe in who probably doesn't want to be here. Plus Mo will be back very soon, so we would have a surplus of PG's. Were probably gonna get our next PG in the draft.
Mo also really wanted to remain in Milwaukee. Then Cleveland (until LeBron left and he was going to kill himself), and Los Angeles.
And good, finally this crappy "rumor" for the Clippers side of things can die.
