This sentence is one of those "if you said it and meant it maybe you should reconsider the nature of objective truth" sentences, because AJ Price should never be at the top of any kind of list.
Seriously, the Buycks signing is eh, but for a backup PG I'd rather another project with promise. Better someone cheap who has a chance to be quite good than someone moderately expensive who will be just sort of bad.
Who's on the top of your list before this signing of Buycks, who clearly benefitted from his Summer League performance and thus totally impossible to predict?
You post a lot. You always sound like a dick.
What about Price is bad? He did a solid job last year in actual NBA games. Yes he had a low FG %, but he shot the 3 well enough, ran the offense well, played decent D, and had very low turnovers.
Also we already have signed a project in Stone. So I thought maybe the team would want some sort of security for if/when Lowry struggles with injuries. It's nice to have someone with at least some NBA experience.
I don't mind another project at all, but there was never any way I could have objectively chosen someone like Buycks. That would have required information on a very unknown player. And that is usually the case with these type of young project signings, just as it was with Stone. So Price was my 1A, and Udrih my 1B, from a list of pretty unspectacular PG free agents.
So again. You constantly come off as a dick. Someone needs to smack you upside the head.
France 2012-2013 (MVP)
18.2 pts /3.2 reb. /2.9 ass. /1.4 steals/ 49% FG / 38% 3PT / 32 MPG
4 Summer league Games with MIA 2013-2014
46%FG - 67% 3PT - 2.5 RPG - 6.00 APG - 9.5 PPG - 2 SPG - 21 MPG
Conclusion:
high FG%! Can shoot the 3! VERY efficient scorer, especially in D-League where in about 27 Minutes, he scored 15 points on 50% FG! Doesnt usually play Point guard, but in Summer league he did and he averaged 6 APG in 21 MPG. He is a tall point guard, he can gather steals, he is young, he is efficient.
This isn't a tank move, it's a build move. Get a talented young player with upside for scraps, see if he pans out. Most likely one of Stone or Buycks pan out to be capable backup PGs, and then you have an asset. Better that than signing some "veteran" PG for a couple million whose sterling quality is "won't fuck up too often."
France 2012-2013 (MVP)
18.2 pts /3.2 reb. /2.9 ass. /1.4 steals/ 49% FG / 38% 3PT / 32 MPG
4 Summer league Games with MIA 2013-2014
46%FG - 67% 3PT - 2.5 RPG - 6.00 APG - 9.5 PPG - 2 SPG - 21 MPG
Conclusion:
high FG%! Can shoot the 3! VERY efficient scorer, especially in D-League where in about 27 Minutes, he scored 15 points on 50% FG! Doesnt usually play Point guard, but in Summer league he did and he averaged 6 APG in 21 MPG. He is a tall point guard, he can gather steals, he is young, he is efficient.
Highlights:
Basically all those stats show is that against lesser talent he has average stats. I don't get this signing. We don't need 2 3rd string point guards.
This isn't a tank move, it's a build move. Get a talented young player with upside for scraps, see if he pans out. Most likely one of Stone or Buycks pan out to be capable backup PGs, and then you have an asset. Better that than signing some "veteran" PG for a couple million whose sterling quality is "won't fuck up too often."
seems to be taking a page off of BC's book.
acquiring virtual unknowns in the hopes of turing stone into gold, i.e. jamario, ukic, garbo, AP
my friend just pointed out that the Raptors have now 16 players on contract, 15 guaranteed (lowry's not).
Can there be a trade/amnesty thats coming?
I was thinking the same thing. I was also wondering why an ESPN Insider article (I only saw the headline) mentioned that with the Hansborough signing, Toronto now had 14 players under contract, when I counted 15...
I assume at least one of the following will happen soon:
- Kleiza amnesty
- Camby trade/buyout
- Richardson trade/buyout
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