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jehosafats wrote:Caruso was hardly a net plus at the time LAL let him go. He was bungling plays in the open floor. Missing wide open shots. Even his defense wasn't exactly lockdown.
DroseReturnChi wrote:he is a good gm. you dont pay 10mil to role players. championship teams only consist of max and vet mins.
DroseReturnChi wrote:JN61 wrote:LeBron isn't as good GM as people make him to be.
he is a good gm. you dont pay 10mil to role players. championship teams only consist of max and vet mins.
Edrees wrote:Tracymcgoaty wrote:KhalilS wrote:Money doesn't grow on trees, and I can understand choosing not sign him for financial reasons, what I'll never understand is preferring to spend the money on THT instead of him.
THT is a future project. Caruso is 7 years older. I love Caruso but im picking THT over him. Much better on offense and defense is going to improve over the years.
Thrilled seeing him thrive at Chi-town though. How can you not root for the pope!
The way I see it, if we didn't trade for Westbrook, we'd have Caruso, THT, KCP and Hield. This shouldn't be about THT Vs Caruso, but about Westbrook vs a bunch of players.
We basically sacrificed an extremely deep team to have westbrook
Pennebaker wrote:Caruso has been a turnover prone defensive liability in Chicago that is currently a net negative.
I think the Lakers projection for him are going to turn out to be accurate - that his new team was going to overpay him and his Chicago contract is going to be the biggest contract of his career. He may even end up back on the Lakers for the minimum after the Bulls.
In other words, the Lakers offer was fair and actually generous because AC is not really even worth 2 years $15 million. He's absolutely not worth what the Bulls are paying him which is close to $10 million per season.
The Lakers got the best value out of Caruso and Chicago will get the worst value out of Caruso.
Another reason why the Lakers win here is because Austin Reaves has replaced Caruso on an undrafted rookie salary and he's already better than Caruso.
AKfanatic wrote:Pennebaker wrote:Caruso has been a turnover prone defensive liability in Chicago that is currently a net negative.
I think the Lakers projection for him are going to turn out to be accurate - that his new team was going to overpay him and his Chicago contract is going to be the biggest contract of his career. He may even end up back on the Lakers for the minimum after the Bulls.
In other words, the Lakers offer was fair and actually generous because AC is not really even worth 2 years $15 million. He's absolutely not worth what the Bulls are paying him which is close to $10 million per season.
The Lakers got the best value out of Caruso and Chicago will get the worst value out of Caruso.
Another reason why the Lakers win here is because Austin Reaves has replaced Caruso on an undrafted rookie salary and he's already better than Caruso.
Damn, still got anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance to go through. I’m sorry for your loss. Just tell yourself “he’s in a better place”……
Slava wrote:Johnny Bball wrote:Slava wrote:
Caruso being a net negative on defense is not something I'd have expected.
Expected huh? That’s because net negative tends to be just a trash term used by people that don’t understand on/off stats, that need to say something…. But Caruso is still the same decent defender.
Its a clear reverse trend from his last 4 seasons as you can see from that image. If anything, I'd have expected him to be down offensively a Chicago has no depth and he struggles without a primary creator like LeBron.
Pennebaker wrote:Caruso has been a turnover prone defensive liability in Chicago that is currently a net negative.
I think the Lakers projection for him are going to turn out to be accurate - that his new team was going to overpay him and his Chicago contract is going to be the biggest contract of his career. He may even end up back on the Lakers for the minimum after the Bulls.
In other words, the Lakers offer was fair and actually generous because AC is not really even worth 2 years $15 million. He's absolutely not worth what the Bulls are paying him which is close to $10 million per season.
The Lakers got the best value out of Caruso and Chicago will get the worst value out of Caruso.
Another reason why the Lakers win here is because Austin Reaves has replaced Caruso on an undrafted rookie salary and he's already better than Caruso.
meekrab wrote:Caruso 16 and 6 tonight in 23 minutes. Yeah, 6 steals.
